Hey hey it's Katie here, and today I'm going to talk to you about my experience
in Shanghai. If we haven't met before, me and my husband are British expats living
here in Tianjin, China and the vlogging as we go. So if you wanna see more living
in China videos make sure you hit subscribe!
A bit of background about me, I am a primary school teacher living here in
Tianjin, working at international school and me and my colleague took our year
fives down to Shanghai a few weeks ago and today I thought I would talk to you
about my experience there. So to begin with me went down to the Tianjin West
Station, which is one of the most popular stations here in our city. We took a
train down to Shanghai which took about five hours. Train travel here in China is
really easy and convenient you can even book your ticket in advance on Ctrip
and it's in English. The speed train goes as fast as 300km/h and I
found it a great way to see some of the Chinese countryside. Once we arrived in
Shanghai we took a coach to our hotel, checked in and then took the children
out to a local pier where we could get on a cruise ship that went along the
Shanghai River. The boat was really nice, it was a really nice experience to enjoy
with my colleagues and the children. It took you across the Bund and you got to
see the Shanghai buildings and architecture lit up at night.
The next day we took the two-hour drive down to Zhouzhuang, the most famous water
town here in China. But before we visited the water town we actually went into a
Science Museum. Now this is a slightly unusual science museum it wasn't what I
was expecting at all. It reminded me a little bit of the bodies exhibit that
travels around the world and you see skeletons and muscles of humans and
animals. The kids really enjoyed it. We then went for lunch at a traditional
Chinese restaurant in Zhouzhuang. In China one of the most popular meal
options you can have is a zhuànpán styled meal. This is where you have lots
of different local dishes on a circular plate that you can turn and help
yourself to the food. So on this day it was actually 38 degrees and very, very
hot. Calum texted me saying it was raining
back in Tianjin but it definitely wasn't doing that in Shanghai. The water town
was really pretty and I managed to get some shots but unfortunately I didn't
get too many, I'll be honest I was a little bit paranoid about taking a bunch
of year fives around a town full of canals. Then we stopped with some ice
cream because you know it was hot and then we headed back to Shanghai which
took two hours. Once we were back in the city we went to a park and the kids
enjoy just playing around and relaxing for a bit, getting out of the heat there
was lots of shade in the park so it was really nice. So it's nearly 5 o'clock
we are just chilling out in the park, the kids are playing and we're going to
dinner soon but it's still super super warm here.
It's like 38 degrees, we are melting a little bit I must say, we are melting.
Then we went for dinner and I was really happy to see some sweet and sour chicken
on the table. So it wasn't quite like the sweet and sour chicken that you get in
the UK but it was just as delicious. We then went to a circus. We went to the
Shanghai Circus World and the kids loved it and to be honest I must say I loved
it too. It was really, really good and it was definitely top class. I wasn't quite
sure what to expect but it was a really fantastic performance.
After that we headed back to our hotel and got a good night's sleep
and that was the end of our first full day in Shanghai. The following day we go
to Shanghai Disneyland, which I'm going to talk about more extensively in
another vlog. So keep an eye out for that, that'll be coming shortly. Anyway if you
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remember, Stay Creative, Bye!