Everyday life – the colour and changes

Shanghai seems like a million miles and lifetimes ago.  Blogging about our adventures keeps the memories alive which is good because right now I’m living life like an out of body experience. The jet lag has kicked in big time making it hard to sleep at the...

Trains, planes and automobiles, plus bikes galore

After what seems to be an age we arrived in London safe and sound.  Just the small matter of having no luggage right now but I live in hope that the global baggage tracking system won’t let us down. International air travel is like a parallel universe where...

Homeland bound – at last

It would have been nice to have more time in Shanghai.  So we did.  Not by choice though.  The cargo doors on our plane refused to close so after several hours sitting on the plane we were decamped to a hotel for the night. We’re now waiting to catch another...

Taking a break to watch the workers

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....

Height, heights and more heights

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...