Shanghai - day 20&21

The train trip from Nanjing to Shanghai (the very expensive train
trip) was so comfortable that we all thougt that 75min was too short a
time to fully enjoy it. The seats were soft, there was room for our
legs, nobody smoked and the toilet was the cleanest since we don't
know when! But when the train travels at a speed of almost 350km/h
it's no wonder the distance between the two cities felt so much
shorter than it really is.

When we arrived we somehow managed to find our way to our hostel, only
equipped with the Lonely Planet and the address of our hostel(Beehome
Hostel). The room is big and we have our own bathroom, which always is
a big plus, but when we arrived it seemed as if our roomate had
brushed her hair EVERYWHERE. There were long, dark hairs in my bed, on
the floor and in the bathroom. Luckily they thouroghly cleaned the
room today and since our roomate left for the Expo at 4Am, we haven't
seen her again. So we hope she's left and given no more opportunities
to spread her hairs all over the room. We loved our other roomate
though. Yasmine from Taiwan was even nice enough to let me try one of
her face masks (no words can describe it, you'll have to wait for the
pictures).

We spent the whole day yesterday walking around in Shanghai. Eating
cheap sushi(the leftovers became our breakfast), strolling down the
Bund and looking up a foodplace called Megabite with an interesting
concept. You choose what raw ingredients you want and then they cook
them for you, right in front of you. We ate so mady different kinds of
tofu that we could barely walk. China really is the promised land of
tofu!

..and yes, to you mothers who so kindly suggested that we'd look up
the Expo when in Shanghai; we know that it's here and we actually went
there today. We saw the que for the tickets, outside the area, and
decided that the 200 yuan each could be better spent than queing all
day long. But the Expo is advertised everywhere, so nobody can visit
Shanghai and be ignorant of it.

This morning we booked a day trip to Tongli, "a lovely canal village
where a disappearing lifestyle of slow living still exists". Hmm,
we'll see about that with all the tourists it's attracting... So
tomorrow morning, at 8:30AM, we're heading towards Tongli on our first
bus trip. Exciting.