Shanghai - monthly home from home

With my new job, I've been travelling to Shanghai more than before - and will have to spend about a week there every month. It's a bustling place - more human in scale (despite the skyscrapers) and more Western than Beijing I think. But similar to Beijing, it's busting with skyscrapers - including a few of the tallest in the world - and one thousand new building sites (like the huge one next to our office in these pictures). I've yet to visit Pudong where the majority of the skyscrapers are -- on one of my next trips, I'll go up to some of the 100th floor observation platforms and will take a few snaps.

Like I said, it feels quite 'Western' -- some areas feel very parisien. In fact, the Downtown streets, with the Universal familiar brands everywhere (coke; nike; starbucks; pepsi etc are all ubiquitous) ... mean you could be anywhere.

M