Rob's Blog

Now I'm in Shanghai I've got some time (it's the weekend) and my notebook is working at last so I'm trying to catch up, city by city. It's all a blur - 4 cities in seven days but each city is very different. China is changing so much it is hard to keep up and compared with when I first came here in the mid-1990s, you could be on a different planet. I remember coming back from a trip about 1999 and telling people it was scary how much change there was, little did I know. I can remeber the first fast food store opening in Shanghai - KFC - now the streets of the cities - and not just Shanghai - have western stores of al sorts