Shanghai Bob

Andrew and Liyan picked me up at the airport when I arrived in Shanghai on October 2nd. We rode the MagLev train in at 431 km/hr or about 270 miles/hr. This is well over twice as fast as the German trains. The inbound and outbound tracks are close together, so when the two trains pass each other at a combined 540 miles/hr, the sides rattle like a tin shed.

The airplane was crowded, noisy, and smelly. Shanghai is…not much different!

We took my luggage directly to a restaurant that serves Peking Duck.

I’m staying at the Tianping Hotel in the French Concession. This is practically across the street from Jiao Tong University, where I’m thinking of studying.

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 11:23 am and is filed under shanghai.