This past weekend, a friend and I ventured out to Wangsiying Wholesale Flower Market Beijing in search of Christmas greenery and to have a general look-see. We had no idea what to expect, but were pleasantly surprised at the […]
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If you love stationery, you’ll be in heaven at the stationery market in Shanghai. So what does stationery heaven look like? Ok, so maybe it’s not a market as such, but it’s a building with numerous stationery shops filled […]
On sunny days we love to wander through the beautifully manicured gardens of The Jing’an Sculpture Park, a favourite of many families, tourists and office workers out to soak up the sun during their lunch break. During the summer […]
As a Christmas-lover, I’m the first to welcome festive celebrations well before December. However, when Christmas chatter broke out in the ‘SH Christmas’ WeChat group in mid-September, I was as surprised as anyone! Update: The links associated with this […]
This breathtakingly ornate, and equally enormous, archway stands inside The Shanghai Exhibition Hall. Built in 1955 the building commemorates the alliance between China and the Soviet Union and was originally called the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building. As magnificent […]
Joy City is the mall that keeps on giving! Recently I was talking about Joy City with a friend, and he mentioned he’d taken his son to an animal petting zoo there. I thought he had his malls mixed […]
Waking up to torrential Plum Rains yesterday we were thankful to have booked tickets to Baoyan Paradise, a children’s indoor play centre, at Daning Shopping Centre in Jing’an North. I’d found Baoyan Paradise on Dianping. With over 4000 reviews […]
As malls go, Shanghai Joy City Mall on Xizang North Road in Jing’an is pretty cool. What more could you ask from a mall with two shopping towers and an enormous Ferris wheel hanging off the side of it? […]
Last week my friend, Janette, asked me if I would like to ‘Go and smash some stuff’. I replied with an emphatic ‘YES!’ before she’d even had a chance to explain where, when and how. Janette had heard about […]
The M50 Art Precinct is a must see during your stay in Shanghai. Parks, cultural centres, and tourist sites throughout Shanghai have experienced closures due to continuing Covid-19 restrictions. Even Shanghai Disney Resort, ‘The happiest place on earth,’ closed […]
Old Traditions Die Hard Although attitudes to marriage in China have become freer in the last century, the ancient Chinese tradition of matchmaking continues to this day and many parents still follow the traditional ways to ensure their child […]
Three years living in China! To say ‘time flies when you’re having fun’ would be a massive understatement at this point. It blows my mind to think of all the amazing, and some not so amazing, things that Steve, […]