Shanghai

Shanghai is brilliant! There is something about this city that feel like home...well, closer to it. There is an sense of class. People are still crazy drivers and crossing the street continues to be closely likened to playing Frogger on the original Atari 2600, but the museums are well lit and have minimal typos in their English language captions. Hell, they have English language captions.

The architecture is inspiring ranging from Art-Decco to Neon-chic. The streets are clean(er) and there just seems to be so much in the way of culture. In the short day and a half that we have been here we've eaten at T8 (one of the "Top 50" restaurants in the world according to Conde Nast) for less than $50 a head, visited the Chinese Communist Party Museum (where Mao and 12 other delegates met in 1919 (?) to set forward their "programme"), walked around the French Concession area, enjoyed jazz at a club owned by a famous Chinese TV star, wandered through amazing glass sculptures in the glass museum, paid a visit to the Shanghai Art Museum and Museum of Urban Planning (where they had a model of all of Shanghai and planning/zoning maps for the hot areas of town available through touchscreen technology), cruised the river and the Bund...and found an Internet cafe with technology and connection speeds strong enough to enable the uploading of pictures.

Great town.