Back in Shanghai
Thursday, April 12th, 2007After a long period of absence, not only from blogging but also from ‘the most exciting city in the world’ (I am talking about Shanghai of course), I am finally back. The last few weeks I was in Germany visiting my family and taking care of lots of administrative stuff. I also found the time to visit one of my best friends in Edinburgh, Scottland, who I had not seen in a while. We had a great time there despite the weather was awful most of the time. Ok you don’t expect good food when going to the UK either, so no surprise on that end. On the way back I took a 2 1/2 day stopover in London which I used to explore the city with my GPS, going from geocache to geocache. And trust me there are many of them. My GPS ended up to be the best tour guide ever, since I sort of accidentally ended up seeing about every major sight. You can see some photos in my gallery or on Flickr. By the way, since my flickr upload did not work for a few weeks, I finally got a chance to upload everything from Xmas to now, so many new photos on (Hangzhou, Xiamen, etc.)
So far the fun part. What actually is very disturbing is the reverse culture shock when coming back home. It is like slamming the breaks at 200 kph. Or to put it in terms of population, from 18m to 16k. And the quietness can be very strange because this is one of the few things you do not find in Shanghai. But after a few days I enjoyed it very much to be home again.
So now I am back for good and will start working soon. So expect more China stories and photos.
Till then Zaijian!
