Wednesday 26th October

Starbucks again this morning to collect mail and update.
Walked to the Yuyuan gardens and along the way stumbled across a huge material shop and on further inspection realised it is one of those stores that make you suits and jackets etc in double speed time. Measure today and pick up in a couple of days.
Passed by even more “specialist shops” on our walk. Crazy place !!

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The local scooter repair shop

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Old Shanghai Teahouse area

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More food stalls in Old Shanghai district

After our walkies around old Shanghai we went back to our hotel to pick up Bags and
head off to the airport for our 7.45 pm flight to Sydney
We were advised by friend Martin to take the high speed “Meglev”train to the airport we we duly did. Good advice as this train is something special. It reaches a top speed of 431km/hr and takes just 7 minutes to complete the 30 km journey.

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The Meglev arriving

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A bit rocky but you can just make out the max speed.
Not a ride to be missed.

Couple of hours hanging about at the airport before we boarded our Qantas flight for a 10 hour hop to Sydney.
Bye bye China. We loved it

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Me and Er live in Devon in a small village with a Thatched Pub

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