The Bund

The Bund
Sightseeing on The Bund September 2014

Thursday 4 January 2018

Golden Week, Half Term and a little bit of exploring

Draft found Jan 2018, post originally dates back to October 2014!

This should have been posted weeks (months!) ago so I am going to whistle through as quickly as possible!!
In the Autumn months, the Chinese celebrate Mid Autumn Festival and have time off - known as Golden Week. Half Term was in this period and the children had 10 days off school so we set about a little bit of local exploring. WJ drove us to the Bund and we hopped on an open top sightseeing bus, 80RMB for James and I, and 'baby free'. Luckily Laura didn't hear that bit or there could have been fisticuffs! We stayed on the bus for the best part of an hour and then got off to find ice cream.


We walked back down Nanjing Road West towards the Bund and the children posed with a statue:

We stumbled across a band who had a very enthusiastic outlook (NOT!) and an entertaining dancing groupie...



We walked alongside the river to the ferry terminal and I snapped this fab shot which I love for so many reasons!


Obligatory selfie...


Another day we went to the Aquarium, I know these pictures don't look like it, but trust me, they were taken in the Aquarium.


Obligatory 'force my scared toddler to stand with the blonde foreigners' photo that happens frequently when we go out:

Penguin poseurs






The giant magnet at the foot of Shanghai World Financial Centre (the really tall building with 90+ floors from an earlier post).




A rainy day in Half Term - junk modelling is obligatory :)





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