Weekend in Shanghai

The last time I visited Shanghai was one and a half years ago. I was prepared to find that quite a few things would have been changed. But again, it was shocking to see how much had really changed!
Before I would be able to encounter those changes, I was welcomed back in Shanghai by a gigantic queue to get a taxi at Shanghai’s Hong Qiao International Airport. It reminded me a lot of the amusement park “Efteling” in Holland in which you would see signs while standing in a queue for a popular attraction saying “from here still 2 hours waiting time”. Here’s a snapshot of it. There and then I realized how many foreigners come to visit Shanghai nowadays.



After recovering from this, I got the second shock when the taxi turned into the street of my parents in law, where I would be staying for the weekend. I did not recognize the street anymore because many Chinese small stores, and delapitated but charming houses had made place for deluxe boutiques and foreign-cuisine-bistros.



Luckily, the generous and warm hospitality of my Chinese family in law had not changed. So, the weekend was well spent wining and dining in several excellent restaurants, as well as at home with my parents in law, watching the family play ma-jiang.



Apart from a visit to the Yu Garden in “the old” city of Shangai, I I did not do a lot of sightseeing. Of course, I did visit the Shanghai museum again, which has a marvellous collection of Chinese porcelain.








Looking forward to the next visit, but then with Shiqi & Mylène.