What do the following things have in common?
Danish pastries
China
Vodka with Ginger Beer
The answer is this. They had never really occurred to me.
If my inclination to explore things were measured in piles of marshmallows, the things in the above list wouldn’t have amassed enough to sprinkle on a hot chocolate. Not because they’re not great. I just hadn’t gotten around to considering them… YET! Once these things came to me (rather than I to them) the marshmallow count started reaching colossal levels. Mountains of marshmallows. A veritable sugar avalanche.
So to speak.
In layman’s terms I had no idea I would love China until I tried it. Same goes for sticky pastry and gingery vodka, but I digress.
Since jetting into Shanghai (after a long, drooly sleep aboard a plane of course) and having a good sniff around, I love the place!
Wandering amongst the thatchy rooves, leafy gardens and shoals of koi carp in the old town, I fell in love.
Also, this sounds so obvious but China really LOOKS different to anything I have ever seen. The streets are crowded with colourful stalls selling ‘Smelly Tofu’ (their name not mine), Chairman Mao memorabilia and ranges of exotic medicines (‘Breast Nuts’ being my personal favourite, although the science behind them seemed a little shakey).
Just being in Shanghai is exciting! Everything is big, colourful and bright. Even the rivers are lined with neon lighting. I mean neon rivers! Rivers of Neon! I feel like I’m on a particularly well-lit film set.
We are leaving my new best city friend for a few days to see another Chinese city, Cheng Du, but like a lovesick frog d’amour I shall return for more ramblings VERY soon.
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