New Years Eve in Shanghai

Ok, so the arrival into Shanghai wasn’t the best in the world, but I still thought that the train was a fun way to travel. Once everyone emerged from their sleep-in we went to grab some lunch at a nearby yummy Australian restaurant. With 3 and a half out of 6 of us facing gastro-issues, it was a wise choice for some familiar food. Jasmine and I were the only ones of the group who were feeling 100%! Neil was still getting over his gastro as was Dave. Amber and Mark were both facing it in a big way and as some of you can probably imagine, the discussion for most of the next 2 days focused around gastro issues, ailments and medicines. Joy of joys. I won’t delight the rest of you about the finer details of these conversations – those who know Neil in Manila can imagine his excitement to find 2 more guys eager to talk about the subject . . .

Anyway, it was a relaxing day where we just caught up with everyone, went to get massages and of course got ready for New Years. Out of everyone it was poor Mark who didn’t quite make it to midnight with everyone – he was looking pretty pale through dinner and went home. We ate dinner at an average Korean-type restaurant and then taxied it over to a great bar in the French Concession area called ‘Face’.



Face was an old British colonial building that was once an opium house or something like that. Drinks were very much at New Years prices but the ambiance was very nice and realistically the price of an average Australian bar drink anyway . . . We stayed there until just after New Years when Amber and Dave left to go home.

One last goodbye

As can be expected with 2 sick people, 2 half sick people and 3 half hung-over people, New Years Day was a quiet affair with McDonalds, videos and a massage.

posted by batik billy @ 2:12 pm