Saturday lunch time at People's Park, Shanghai. Welcome to, the marriage market.The noise and crowd, at first I thought we were entering a fruit and vegetable market. Hundreds of personal advertisements, with year of birth, height, education, job and salary, property owned and sometimes a photo, hang from bushes, trees, tops of umbrellas, placed on the ground with stones or clumps of mud and from any wall space possible. This is where online dating comes to life...

Ni hao!I've been exploring the neighbourhood and Shanghai since mum left, seeing new places and meeting new people but haven't quite found the words for writing a blog recently. So where do I start?I've been feeling really happy, enjoying myself but it's a different kind of happy, it's like a peace inside and it all started after a Buddhism ceremony with the hand over an ebony figure to me.Mumma wanted to hand over this figure of a man holding one single bag, tel...