*NOTE* the past couple blogs were written offline and I've just uploaded them from Japan. The internet is much better here and so i will start uploading my photos tomorrow and hopefully whack some on here! Thanks for reading everyone :) Alex and Alexa left the hostel yesterday and 3 Chinese girls replaced them last night. Turns out Nina, the German girl in my dorm, studied and speaks Chinese and so we all agreed to go out together for the day. First thing I had...

Didn't really do much in the morning but come lunch time I went out with Alex as Alexa to grab some food. Spent quite a lot of the time laughing at the chinglish translations of dishes, especially "fried tofu with no result" and "chicken fixes the boiler" !! The girls had to go back to the hostel to sort some stuff and so I headed off to Yu Yuan garden, a 400 year old traditional Chinese garden. To get there you have to walk through an extremely busy and touris...

My plan today was to explore people's park in daylight and to visit the Shanghai Museum which was close by. On the way a couple came up to me shouting "Excuseme Excuseme lady ladyyy!" so I stopped and said hello, to which she replied "ahh see I knew you were foreign because you have yellow hair and biiig nose". Brilliant. They then explained that they were on holiday for a week in shanghai (although they only live half an hour away) and were on their way to a te...

The hostel I'm staying at here Is called The Blue Mountain Bund Youth Hostel. The location is brilliant as I can generally walk to most of the sights, and if not there's a subway round the corner. I arrived at about 8am and the room i'd booked (8 bed mixed dorm) wasn't ready as the people hadn't checked out yet and so she put me in a slightly more expensive (about £1 ha) 6 bed female dorm. The room was pretty small but SO warm and the beds really comfy, and I ma...