Arrived in Shanghai and greeted by downright freezing weather. So cold, do beautiful! After settling in at my cousins’ vintage-chic renovated lane house (old roomy old-style condos that have been remade for a generation of new, Western Shanghainese); grabbed a coffee and did a bit of exploring; managing to have my bank card eaten up by an ATM on the way there. That will be remedied tomorrow morning! Then headed over to Pudong, Shanghai’s glittering financial and commercial district, to have dinner and drinks with friends. Made some new friends, talked about Jesus and creationism, walked around in the elevated walkways in the light of the looming skyscrapers. Tomorrow: exploring the alleys of the French Concession.
