Shànghǎi: Morning walk

14th April 2013.

Having a free day in Shànghǎi, we decided to go for a walk around our hotel, the Marriott Courtyard.

 

This area of Shànghǎi was either very new or about to be very new.  Somehow, a few older style houses have survived here, but I suspect they won’t be there much longer.

Our hotel was near a landscaped and floralised canal:

 

As it was spring, there were many beautiful flowering trees everywhere.

 

Drying space is at a premium in Shànghǎi, so this washing had been resourcefully hung in a public garden.

 

Many intersections had complete pedestrian overpasses which kept the traffic moving and the pedestrians safe.

 

We nicknamed this the Golden Bosom Hotel.

Pat and the main Shànghǎi Railway Station.  (I’m sure you can tell which is which.)

 

Butterfly garden, with the Golden Bosom Hotel in the background.  The butterfly needed a bit of a prune.

 

Pat in the butterfly garden, with the Golden Bosom Hotel in the background.

 

Keeping two trucks off the street.

 

Big flower pots down the middle of the street.  These were watered by one man on a push bike pulling a tank of water and another man beside him with a hose.  Everyone in Shànghǎi seemed to have a job, many of them quite menial, such as sweeping the streets with a straw broom.

 

Back in our hotel, looking out the window, where another skyscraper is being born.