Saturday evening and everyone was at the Bund, the old colonial waterfront on the Huangpu river. The skyscrapers in the photos are in the Lujiazui district, with three of the world's tallest skyscrapers close together near the iconic Shanghai Pearl TV mast. We went on the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel to the opposite side where the futuristic buildings are used as film sets. The ride itself was....odd! We ate dumplings at Din Tai Fung in the Shanghai World Finance ...

Today Ros took us to the Stationery market. 3 floors of kiosks selling everything and anything loosely connected with office or school supplies. Amazing, I've never seen so many variations on pen, pencil and notebook. All through the tourist areas we were offered 'genuine Rolex watch' and 'handabag' and clip on wheels to go on our shoes. We then visited the 'embellishments' market to get the net for the wedding. There were stalls with buttons, buckles and baubles...

Shanghai is a city of contrasts. The centre, where Ros and Pete live, is very clean and modern, full of very high skyscrapers but with a few older buildings mixed in. Today we visited Jing'an temple, built of Burmese teak with silver and marble Buddhas. Some sort of celebration was just starting, and gold leaf covered elephants were everywhere, including being winched onto the roofs by crane. A large part of the temple was covered in scaffolding with woven bambo...

We're here. Very tired but lovely to see Pete & Ros.