Shanghai, first impressions

A few days before my flight to Shanghai, it turned out that Yi will only be able to come back home Friday end of day due to work obligations so I had to change my I-am-visiting-frirnds hat to ready-for-a-new-adventure hat. So I did my usual research to see what’s fun to do in Shanghai so I can entertain myself until Yi is back. 👏 I had a bit of a stress situation at the airport as most European apps only work with a VPN but for the love of god I couldn’t connect to the airport wifi to set up my e-sim so I was very close to be stuck at the airport for forever haha. Luckily, I don’t give up so easily so after an hour of sweaty trial and fail, I succeeded!!! Jumped into a taxi and after an hour I reached Yi’s home and I made it into the flat. Yorick, Yi’s boyfriend happened to be home so we chatted a little bit, I took a shower, chilled for a while, and then headed out to explore the neighbourhood. And I must say that it’s just absolutely lovely. 😻 There are little nature parks with plenty of birds giving you the feeling as if you’re in a big Chinese forest and all the locals were out for their daily mental health walks, jogs, stretches with kids and eldery. I walked along the water to this new, fancy plaza called 1000 trees which looks really cool from the outside. I didn’t go inside but instead I walked to M50, an art space and came across an exhibition with the sweetest curators. They spoke really good English so they told me all about the artist. Unfortunately, it was almost closing when I got there so I’m planning to return while I’m still here. 💛 Yorick and I eventually went for dinner together to an uyghur restaurant and the food was so delicious. On the way there we passed by a park where locals were dancing and enjoying life together. Shanghai is making the best impression so far, can’t wait for more! 🤩Read more