Salvo Hotel Shanghai

... is about an hour away from the city. Whereas Beijing is a mix of old and new and Xian is mostly old with a little new, Shanghai was all new and modern.  Skyscrapers reaching up into the sky, each one taller than the next, each design more modern ...

... president just to pick up a few packages of the Osmanthus tea. After our visit we had to head to the airport for our flight to Shanghai. I had to pay $50 in excess luggage fees which left me in a bad mood. But I was already upset because I left my iPod ...

... white/grey of the sky. Despite what might be a depressing lack of variation and real evidence of terrible environmental conditions, Shanghai buzzes with an enormous population of the young and the old, Chinese and foreign, the working and the studying. ...

... a colleague from LC, and Brad, her husband and also a professor at Randolph College. They are here  to lecture at Shanghai University. A young man is with them, a student, named Liang. He ushers us to a vegetarian restaurant. Tasty. ...

... tiny scoop of Haagen Dazs cost the same as an entire meal, with sundae, at McDonald's. Oh well. After that we came back to the hotel to rest our legs and watch some horrible movies on HBO. Once it was dark we walked down to the Bund to take photos and ...

... but Ally picked up a couple gifts. We found a massage for Ally - about $10 for an hour, and a facial for me - about the same, and after our treatments had a relaxing evening in our hotel. I think tomorrow I will try out Ally's strong-handed ...

... Just about any food you can think of is available in Shanghai - a very cosmopolitan city. We cut short our stay at the Salvo Hotel, very conveniently located four blocks (two long, two short) from Nanjing Lu, the city's main shopping street with neon and ...

... Shangdon North Street, we found this interesting restaurant, Xin Wang.  Set up in an old news paper building with typical Shanghai traditional services, this place has one of the best congee.  We also tries  the duck chins which are very ...

... was delicious and enjoyable. Not really having done our homework for the evening, we strayed into the bar on the 31st floor of the hotel Salvo and in the spirit of things decided to sample the Sake which was rather de-spirited! So we moved onto wine, and ...