Rolling into Shanghai's People's Square last Sunday, New Zealander Rob Thomson was met with surprisingly little fanfare. No media to greet him, no friends or family to congratulate him. A lonesome end to an amazing journey.
The random Chinese man he asked to take his photo to mark the moment had no idea that Thomson has just completed a world record breaking odyssey. He had, in the course of 462 days, travelled an…
© d. FukaLiving, as I do, just outside of Shanghai tends to see me visit The City on "official business" quite frequently. Not only is it the ultra-modern, socio-cultural mecca of Mainland China - it's also the closest place to Suzhou a Canadian guy can get consular stuff done.
Despite having been to "The Paris of the East" numerous times, there is one thing that continues to baffle me, and perhaps some of yo…
The following has in no way been confirmed to be legitimate, however I wanted to post it here to see if anyone had heard anything about this.
From the Hangzhou Expat forum:
This information has not and most likely will not appear in the press or the media. But a co-worker's wife who works in a medical treatment center in Shanghai just recently received between 20-30 victims of two separate bombing incidents on…
Ryan