Finally today we managed to find something that was free! We went along to the Shanghai Museum and we were all surprised to find that the admission was free. The most interesting halls here were the bronze weapons and the sculptures halls, and luckily for us the descriptions of the artefacts were also written in English. The Chinese calligraphy and money halls were probably the least interesting as a room full of coins and notes and room full of Chinese scripture were not very interesting when you have no idea of what they say and there was very little descriptions written in English in these halls.

After the museum we headed over to the French quarter for a bite of lunch in a French patisserie where it was very nice to have some food which didn't consist of noodles or rice. From the French quarter and with the help of Claire’s navigational skills, we took the shortest possible route to the Yuyang Gardens, via some very 'interesting’ streets.

The garden was first established in 1559 as a private garden created by Pan Yunduan, who spent almost 20 years building a garden to please his father Pan En, a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, during his father's old age. Over the years, the gardens fell into disrepair until about 1760 when bought by merchants, then suffered extensive damage in the 19th century. In 1842, during the Opium Wars, the British army occupied the Town God Temple for five days. During the Taiping Rebellion the gardens were occupied by imperial troops, and damaged again by the Japanese in 1942. They were repaired by the Shanghai government from 1956-1961, opened to the public in 1961, and declared a national monument in 1982.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuyuan_Garden

From the gardens we walked over to the river where we were just taking a 5 minute rest and suddenly we found ourselves being filmed by a Japanese film crew. As soon as I saw the presenter come over to join us I decided that it would be best to get up out of the way and left the 3 girls to become the stars. They were talked to and then asked to say hello in Chinese to the camera. It was all a bit weird.