We spent a couple of days in Shanghai, it's another huge city and appears to be not short of cash. There's a lot of development, construction and some huge impressive buildings.

Our first day was spent getting our train tickets to Hong Kong (we queued in 4 different places before we got our tickets!) Then we went to People's Square (like Times Square).

There's a nice little park there and we were approached by a Chinese couple who were students. After a bit of chat they talked to each other (in Chinese) and offered to take us to a local tea house to show us some of their traditional teas..........this all sounded great!

But, we had fortunately read that these guys are slick scammers. In the lonely planet guide and in the hostel it explains that tourists can be approached by students who want to practice their English. The students have an agreement with the tea house and the foreigners end up paying an inflated price for the teas which gets split between the scammers and tea house.Needless to say we declined their kind offer.

That night we had dinner for less than 2quid then went to a swanky cocktail bar (the Tiger Lilly of Shanghai) and spent 20quid. Our first bit of luxury, so we did the same the next night in the Radisson Sky bar (200metres up)!

Looking forward to the train from Shanghai to the airport it's called The Maglev, it travels at speed up to 430km/hr, over a distance of 30km. I think Scotland and Northern Ireland need a few of these! Edinburgh to Glasgow in less than 10mins!!