In and out of Shanghai
Finally I find some time to write something in my blog again. The last few weeks and months have been eventful to say the least. I think the photos I put online say it pretty well. Essentially I have been in and out of Shanghai over and over, more out then in recently. On the business side I just came back from Guadalajara, Mexico last week where I spend 2 weeks working at our plant. I would not have expected to go to this part of the world anytime soon but there it came. I would have rather figured my next trip would be Korea or Japan again. Speaking of which was my assignment before Mexico. Tokyo to be precise, a city I instantly fell in love with. Tokyo is hands down, the most perfect and best organized city I have ever been to. In Tokyo you get the impression that you are actually 10 years in the future. That certainly creates a huge drop once coming back to the, rather imperfect but still always reinventing itself, Shanghai.
On a personal level, I have also been traveling a lot (as this is my prime hobby, next to geocaching). My parents came over to visit and therefore I had planned a nice little trip throughout China: Shanghai > Beijing > Xi’an > Shanghai > Guilin & Yangshuo > Sanya > Shanghai. All in 2 1/2 weeks. You can imagine this was nothing for the faint hearted, all variables need to be carefully aligned planned trough, all flights exactly timed to achieve the maximum effect. One missed flight could have messed up the whole planning. But miraculously not a single flight delay, no overbooked hotel, all went according to plan. In the end we saw many fascinating places and people, experienced China from the north to the very southern tip and needed a vacation from the vacation after all was over.
So all the results I have documented with my camera, as usual to see on this site. So lets see where it goes next, stay tuned for more…
