This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. For Saturday, we head to Shanghai, in China – and the Pudong, or East Bank. But I should give a bit of background first, I guess .. For many people, the most familiar images of Shanghai are those of The Bund, an embankment, or quay, along…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. Friday’s image is of a streetscape that looks like it could be in any European city – except that is it, in fact, in Shanghai. The Bund is an embankment, or quay, along the banks of the Huangpu River, which runs through Shanghai. It’s made up…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is U, for Under. To wrap the week up, we are Under the Fog in Shanghai. The most populous city in China, Shanghai is home to 24 million people, and has the world’s busiest container port. It’s on the Yangtze River delta, and at its heart is…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Tuesday, it’s a MagLev train in Shanghai. MagLev, or Magnetic Levitation, involves using magnets of opposite polarity to allow a train to travel frictionlessly without actually touching the track – and using that magnetic repulsion to actually drive the train…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport San Francisco CBD has three unusual forms of Public Transport – the cable-cars (which we’ll look at later), electric buses (using overhead power cables, like the old tram system) and streetcars like this one which was outside the ferry building. Some of these streetcars aren’t the…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport. I might have mentioned in the past that I’m something of a nerdygeek when it comes to high-speed trains 🙂 So far, we’ve traveled on the high-speed * Trenitalia Freccia train from Rome to Paris (300km/hr – but it was an overnight train – so there…
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