Posted by Andrew on November 22nd 2011
Last weekend we went to Hangzhou, a city around 180km south-west of Shanghai, by high speed train. It’s quite an experience; Hongqiao railway station in Shanghai is brand new (and enormous) and boarding the train felt more like entering a space ship. It was the smoothest train ride that I’ve ever been on – even at 300 km/h it seemed to be barely moving. We completed the journey in less than an hour.
Posted by Andrew on November 06th 2011
I thought Shanghai was a modern city. Until, that is, I walked away from the bright lights and skyscrapers in the centre and started to explore the older neighbourhoods. Some of these are simply undeveloped, and will probably be bulldozed and rebuilt in the near future. Others have retained their ‘old’ character for reasons of commerce and tourism, such as Yuyuan Garden in the Old City.
Posted by Andrew on October 19th 2011
One of my goals while we are in Shanghai is to get out from the city and explore some of the other interesting parts of China. The countryside around Shanghai is quite flat, there are no nearby hills or mountains. These are lowlands, and one of the local features are ‘water villages’ – ancient settlements built around water, like canals, natural rivers or streams.
Posted by Andrew on September 19th 2011
Regular readers will know that I moved to New Zealand at the end of last year. My girlfriend and I have decided to try something a little different and we’re spending the next seven months in Shanghai. We arrived a little over a week ago, and our first days have been spent recovering from jet lag, getting orientated and exploring the city. It feels great to be travelling again – New Zealand is beautiful but it didn’t feel like ‘travelling’. It’s beautiful but not exotic, and my girlfriend’s family live there, so it feels more like home than a journey to somewhere new.
Posted by on June 16th 2008
In August 2004 I spent a few days in a charming, remote village called Iruya in northwest Argentina. Imagine my surprise when I recognised the town in Guiness’ latest TV ad. A quick search on google confirmed that the location was indeed Iruya, that the ad is Guiness’ most expensive to date, and that the entire campaign cost a colossal ten million pounds (approximately 20 million US dollars).
This is how Iruya looks when you approach it along the dirt road from Humahuaca.
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