It was my second day here and I decided to go for a stroll to the most famous part of the city, The Bund. New Year's was close and streets were empty. Most of Shanghainese people come from other parts of China, and for New Year they all went home. Peace reins on the streets. I wonder if HE can feel it too right now.

Outside the very center huge buildings leave space to little peculiar chinese houses. Less fancy maybe, but very fascinating.

This is a monument to the chinese soldier's died in war. A chinese woman asked me if I could have a photo with her in front of it. Her dauther and husband were with her and they took the photo...who knows what they really think about "us". Are "we" cool? Or "we" are just funny looking?















A wall with pictures surrounds it


It was a foggy day so the skyline wasn't great. Luckily at night it looks better.

Something with flowers...















One of the thousands boats that cross the HangPu river
















On the other side of the skyline there's a long line of very beautiful art decò buildings, all owned by the numerous chinese banks

I alredy saw this somewhere...
Oh now it's all clear....















A french meteo tower. Being french it looks pretty, and for the same reason probably useless...
This remainds me a lot about photos HE took that one time he went to Beijing.
As Beijing looked pretty much all like this Shanghai really does not, history has been replaiced by shopping










A very chinese Apple store. Now we are in East Nanjing Road, THE shopping street.

Another monument for the dead. We are now in People square.



















AND NOW IT'S NIGHT TIME...the city just magically changes its face...

 Mao

And this is all I'm eating this days. "spaghetti secchi" o "istant noodles". You just add hot water (and some weird stuff) and you have lunch. 30 euro cent, I have to say it's quite good.