Your train tickets will have the train number, compartment and seat numbers on them. Everything but those numbers will be in Chinese. Once in the proper waiting area in a Chinese train station, there is nothing to do but wait and hope that you really are sitting in the right place. Egress to the trains [...]
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The Bullet Train From Shanghai to Nanjing, China
March 12th, 2011 
Sheila Simkin 
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How to Take Trains In and Out of Shanghai, China
March 11th, 2011 Sheila Simkin The first and most important fact about training in and out of Shanghai is there are two train stations. The main one is called Shanghai Train Station and the other, Shanghai South Train Station. I can’t stress how important it is to know which one your train is leaving from for obvious reasons. Check and [...]
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Communist Literature and Other Sights on Duolun Road, Shanghai
March 10th, 2011 Sheila Simkin The Duolun area is called the “Town of Modern Literature” because many Chinese literature masters lived or stayed here. Their names didn’t ring a bell for me but perhaps you have heard of them. Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Guo Moruuo, Ye Shengtao and Rou Shi. Many of these cultural celebrities lived in Jingyunli Alley behind [...]
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Have you heard of Duolun Road and Market in Shanghai?
March 9th, 2011 Sheila Simkin I am forever picking up brochures from Information offices, in airports and hotel lobbies. One of these told about Duolun Road, called the “Town of Modern Literature” in Chinese cultural history and one of the 10 leisure streets for tourists in Shanghai. It looked like a straight shot down the entire length of Sichuan Road [...]
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Yuyuan Garden Food and Food Courts, Shanghai
March 8th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Let’s talk food, one of my favorite subjects. Inside Yuyuan Garden can be found all the big chains. McDonald’s, Haagen Daz, Dairy Queen, KFC, Starbucks and probably a few more that have slipped my mind. Not in the mood for American comfort food? Keep on going to the one of the famous restaurants/stalls that make [...]
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Don’t Miss Yuyuan Garden and Old Street, Shanghai
March 7th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Our walk began on the Bund from Suzhou Creek and headed in the direction of Yuyuan Gardens, another favorite stop for us. Right off the Bund into gorgeous Gucheng Park that I don’t remember ever seeing before. Gucheng Park was part of Shanghai’s Greenbelt Project begun in 2002 and just completed. Wonderful gardens, streams and [...]
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Fun and Kitschy Dong Tai Lu Antique Market, Shanghai
March 6th, 2011 Sheila Simkin It’s not a very long walk from Yu Gradens to Dong Tai Lu Antique Market (or street market) if you don’t get lost on the way. We do, stop and ask locals who then point the direction. Get lost again. Stop, ask and point until we find it. Dong Tail Lu is usually one of [...]
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Bustling Nanjing Road, East and West, Shanghai
March 5th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Nanjing Road is the most prosperous business street in Shanghai and regarded as “The first business street in China.” On our first trip to Shanghai in 1989, tourists weren’t allowed to go anywhere by themselves and the guide finally relented and let us walk down Nanjing Road. This was the only area to shop other [...]
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The Remaining Hutongs in Shanghai
March 4th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Be prepared to laboriously find your way around Shanghai only to discover on a return visit that this area is no more. ex-Marine and I got lost without the buildings that once guided us. We stayed at the Four Seasons Shanghai on one trip and there was a convenient Internet down the street with buildings [...]
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Walking Along The Historic Bund in Shanghai
March 3rd, 2011 Sheila Simkin Shanghai’s historic “Bund” is actually a one-mile stretch of Zhongshan Road on the west side of the Huangpu River. Traditionally, the Bund begins at Yan’an Road in the south and ends at a bridge in the north that crosses Suzhou Creek. The Panorama Hotel was a short two block walk across the bridge to the [...]
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