After foot slogging around for a while it’s always nice to find a shady spot to glug back a bottle of cold water. This park was the perfect place for us to rest our weary legs. Just like the buildings in Shanghai the parks are being spruced up for the Expo.... I wished I’d become an architect. I desperately want to understand how people make buildings like these. How you piece together developments on an uber scale and what makes an architect create buildings like these. If I could make sense of the fundamentals... Shanghai has been an economic powerhouse of China for hundreds of years.  First as a trading port and now as the financial hub of the world’s economic hothouse. Right now there are feverish preparations across the city to showcase Shanghai’s economic... Seems a basset will go to great lengths to punish you for leaving them behind in New Zealand. If I didn’t know better I think this were Fortnum disguised as a shopping train. I know for sure that it’s not a real basset though as a basset just... It was a relief to look out of the hotel window this morning and see the true potential of Shanghai’s skyline. Little did I know at that point how dizzy this skyline would make me feel. Even with my feet planted firmly on the ground I spent most of the day... 