Shanghailanders

Today 18th May 2013 we spent our last day in Shanghai on this visit.

It has been wonderful. We started with visiting the Church where Granny and Grandpa got married and we walked on the Bund which even though it was raining was wonderful

Then I went shopping with Katy Gow who is from the RAS She is a great haggler and I managed to get all I wanted plus a little something for myself!

Can't say where I went as some things are a surprise for some people!

We then went to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and had cocktails in the Long Bar (used to be the longest bar in the world and women were barred) which was a great treat before going on to a restaurant Peter knew which was as always brilliant and really cheap. The bar was the place like a gentleman's club where the businessmen congregated to do all of their deals and run the concessions business, most powerful at one end and along the bar reducing in seniority, it is a brilliantly restored building.

Cocktails at the Long Bar wonderful but not cheap. Dinner at Peters choice wonderful and with beer all round and about twelve dishes £8 per person.

Was this how Shanghailanders lived I wonder. Probably the start of the evening (in the Long Bar) but not the end!!

We leave in the morning after a wonderful visit to Shanghai and with new friends. What with a wonderful send off from Barry and now a wonderful send off from Shanghai we think we have done the jobs properly and are looking forward to the next stage.

Off for a 3 day cruise on the Yangtze and a well earned rest.