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I must admit that the location is a bit of a lie - I've been home for more than a week already. But sitting at home in my apartment that I share with my very good friend Johanna after a long day of school and work I just felt I wanted to do something else. Something that isn't sleeping, reading the very interesting but quite massive books for my class or just mindlessly surfing the internet. That's what I do these days instead of flipping through TV-channels (we've both decided against television). Both activities are quite equal in meaninglessness...

Greeting Götheborg

Elin Thyr
2006-10-05 21:24:15

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I must admit that the location is a bit of a lie - I've been home for more than a week already. But sitting at home in my apartment that I share with my very good friend Johanna after a long day of school and work I just felt I wanted to do something else. Something that isn't sleeping, reading the very interesting but quite massive books for my class or just mindlessly surfing the internet. That's what I do these days instead of flipping through TV-channels (we've both decided against television). Both activities are quite equal in meaninglessness...

Anyway, I thought I'd write a few details of our trip to Shanghai. We spent 10 days in a city to which it is very hard to give a fair description. It can be overflowing with people in one street, but echoingly (hm, is that a word?) empty just a few blocks away. One meal can be cheap as chips and other amazingly expensive. There are sparkling buildings worth millions reaching for the stars and below them crippled beggars are pleading to by-passers for cents.

After the communist rule the Chinese economy has grown incredibly. In Shanghai 4000 skyscrapers have been built during the last 10 years - more than one a day. The city boast with China's highest building: Jin Mao Tower, over 440 meters high, 88 floors and the world's highest hotel - the Grand Hyatt. It also has probably the world's deepest atrium, standing on the highest hotel floor (86) you can look all the way down into the lobby, 30 floors below. Not to mention the hotel bar, Cloud 9, on 87 where you can chill to a glass of Moet Chardon while enjoying Shanghai's best view. The city has a TV-tower which looks like a giant space toy, a revolving sky restaurant on the Radisson Hotel, lots and lots of trendy, expensive restaurants and bars and millions (well almost) of shopping malls and the shopping streets with all the neon lights. With everything from the cheapest shoes, clothes and just stuff to the most exclusive ...