Shanghai Hotel
No.505 Wulumuqi North Road, Jing'an District Shanghai, Shanghai, 200040, China
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Set us loose!
Fine. Yes. We did it. First day away and we found a Starbucks. What can we say!? We tried the coffee drinks in cans from the corner mart, but they're sweet and mocha-ish and NOT at all coffee. Thus, we found a Starbucks and started our day off right. :) We hired up taxi to take us over to Yu Yuan Garden....... .... It was amazing, - its located in …
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Day 9 XiTang Water Town
... in Beijing. We tried bean curd from a small road side store manned by an elderly man because there was a group of Korean tourists buying from him and many tourists sitting at the side tables. It was actually quite tasteless :)
XiTang is over-rated now with the throng of tourists. We paid a tout 50 yuan to ferry us in his trishaw directly into a street in XiTang bypassing the main entrance and fees. It proved to be a good choice as the distance from ...
The Bund
... meant I was supposed to pray to the statue with a rooster on his head.
Lots of incongruous sights. Take for example the teenage girls in particularly short skirts repeatedly genuflecting before the God of Wealth, but pausing in the middle of it all to take a mobile phone call before starting up again. I suppose the God of Wealth is patient, and doesn't mind her priorities.
By lunch time it was just one ...
Back to work
... progressing as quickly as they plan.
Monu and Dawit spent more time with their teams and we feel we have a strong path to get us back to green.
In the afternoon we held the first of many design review meetings. The meeting went well but still a lot of open questions that we need to make sure are answered before we leave.
At the end of the day we took that photos we need for the Party tomorrow and headed back to ...
Shanghai, what an awesome place
... restrictions, the hotel has wire but not wireless so I needed to go to the Apple store to get a USB NW dongle – pricing is almost identical to Europe.
We spent the day in the state museum which is compressive but I doubt all the exhibits are genuine, maybe they are but some items from the 8 Century BC are in pristine condition and probably have a "made in china" badge on them…which of course they were, just ...



