Day 1 …well better late than never! …Excuse the casual banter….day 1 blogs a toughly! we did os travel thing! The run starts tomorrow with a ripper walking tour of the city! ..but to elaborate slightly… And we have lift off!….10.5hrs of China Air, a couple of bad movies….& dare I say it….a fosters! Mix it all in with a few mid flight chin wags, the hoarding of bread rolls, chicken with potato & potato with chicken and we have touchdown!… Let’s face it after 10.5hrs in the air with CA excitement was going to come think & fast…and it did! Welcome to Shanghai…. Oh my, airports are usually cavanous rabbit warrens of disparate spaces, but here what grabbed me was the SCALE! cavanous rabbit warren!…disembarking in shanghai international in the evening we were greeted by what could quite easily be describe as one EPIC space! By no means an architectural feat – un inspiringly drab certainly….but epic!….heightened by the fact it was pretty empty and just…kept…on…going, kinda like Escher messing with perspective! Thankful that we only disembarked at gate 79 we just kept on walking, taking in the BIGNESS of emptiness! ….Hello mag-lev & a 301km/hr dart across to Pudong, and straight into heated discussion with the taxi mafia! But thanks to some bolshy quip, we were able to hold our heads high knowing that we only paid 4x the going rate! Shanghai at night, a technicolor sea of visual craziness….deciding in to the maelstrom zipping off the freeway via a concentric spiralling ramp, seemingly down through the roof tops & between the sky scrapers was just plain old cool! All checked in, knackered & hanging out for some shut-eye we finished the day quite sensibly…..an amazing meal, accompanied by non other than fish-balls, warm longnecks and discussions on things that go boom!…..or was it boom boom?…. It was a long day, but a cracker! SH