Old French Concession Shanghai

Landing in PVG

By the time I got out to the airport it was about 8:30 pm, Saturday, February 18 (Shanghai Time). I was to take Bus 6 to the last stop, and go to my Hostel (Rock and Wood). Bus 6 was to leave at 9pm. I decided to wait half an hour. This seemed like a horrible decision, but I didnt feel like taking the train (so I could see …

It took me a while to get out of the Hostel. Getting up a little before 8am, and leaving by about 10:30am...I showered, and came down to re-do the plan I had made the night before. Oh, and I also spoke with Jaime for about 40 minutes about her stay in China.

Jaime
Jaime had been in China for 5 weeks, and would go running every morning …

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A question we keep getting is about the weather. It's very cold here. We have no idea what this means off the top of our heads but it's anywhere …

Shanghai is a very nice city. However it is no Beijing. The main difference comes in terms of tourism, in Beijing you could spend days and days checking out all the great sights. Shanghai is very different, it is much cleaner to start and much less tourist orientated and massively orientated towards businessmen. For this reason, even more people …

Yesterday we took a 2 hour flight from Chengdu to Shanghai! Our shuttle bus driver was pretty insane... and honestly had the craziest and bumpiest ride yet! The flight went pretty well, although we didn't take off until an hour after we were supposed to, and when we got to Shanghai it was pouring rain! I was surprised though, that on our flight we …

Szanghaj można podzielić na dwie części: tzw. Pûxî (na zachód od rzeki Huángpû) oraz Pudōng (wschodnie wybrzeże Huángpû). Historyczne atrakcje znajdują się w Pûxî z m.in. słynną promenadą The Bund czy French Conncession, gdzie należy szukać …

15 hours sat on the hard seat with moving anywhere on train, finally I hit the megapolitan city and most modern city in China, Shanghai! My host, Jason picked me up in the railway station and guided me first to his place. His family was very friendly and kind. The grandma treated me a lunch. God! what a delicious chinese lunch I had.

Jason …

We told Kevin about our excursion last night. He taught me how to say Vietnamese "Yuenanren". Also, he said he saw hookers at the Karaoke bar one time. I guess those girls weren't part of a bridal party...

Today is our only free day. We get the option to follow Kevin or venture out alone. Almost half the group ventured out. We were doing …

Today, we venture out!
Mom's over the mild bladder infection, I've had my "me-time," and Dad's excited to get going again.
We head for the subway, proud that it had only taken us about 30 minutes to figure out to which stop our hotel was closest and how to get to a couple of key locations. (keep in mind most things are written in …

21-08-2012 Shanghai
Hello Shanghai We meet up with Sanne!!! Sanne, who lives with Koen in Shanghai volunteered to show us around. We have been to a beautiful park, the most famous bund area, we cooked a delicious meal together, drank a beer in the French concession and saw young rock bands perform like there was no tomorrow. All in all we had …

... that my friend, Mingzhu had found me somewhere to stay in the relatively tranquil, tree-lined streets near the Old French Concession. It's an obvious observation to make, but the Pudong skyline is spectacular, framed as it is against the Huangpu ...

... time of 11am. However, we combined H&M with sight-seeing, as it was on one of the main drags in the old French concession. Apart from the art deco architecture and numerous 'bakeries' (a concept that is often very different from what we would class ...

... the road and organized our plane tickets for the rest of our travels around China. Then we headed into the old French Concession area of Shanghai, where we had a really yummy Chinese meal at an up-market restaurant - still very cheap, considering we ...

... 20th century colonial skyscrapers, and the other, less obvious areas of colonial architecture, such as the old French Concession, now a vaguely pretentious cafe district. Aimlessly wandering the streets doesn't come up with much of interest beyond ...

Well last night was St. Patrick's day (Shanghai time), and it wasn't too bad. I headed down to the old French concession area (that is the part of town that the Chinese had to conceed to the French after the Opium Wars). Its full of western architecture, ...

... gave in. We considered that a valuable lesson in team walking-away-techniques. ;) We then stopped briefly in the Old French Concession to notice the distinct difference in architecture of the buildings there from what we'd seen elsewhere in Shanghai or ...

... back into the old ways with best friends. Crammed quite a lot into a day, went to cool arty part of the Old French Concession area, two museums which were the former residences of Sun Yatsen (the first president of the Republic of China) and Zhou Enlai ...

... am currently sitting in a little café with free wifi.  It is one of many french style bakeries.  Living in the old French Concession has some kicks. Photos will be coming soon, I am planning to explore the city this weekend and do the tourist ...

... somekind of traditional building in the middle of the tall and modern one. After that, Jason invite me to walk to the old French Concession. The street is quiet calm with mapple trees accompany us along the way. Time had gone to dark and cricket on the ...

... Mahal photos were gone as well! Gosh, sometimes God CAN BE merciless. :(   3.40 pm: I was making my way to the Old French Concession. I had no idea what's with all the hype about this place but since I was already there might as well pop by. It's a ...