day 1 in shanghai ( iphone pics )

once again, just one post today and excuse the quality... they are all iphone pics.

1

i took this sitting down out of the way while the adults checked the team

 in at the puli hotel shanghai.

2

waiting for the hotel worker to struggle with my burton bag, i took this 

snap of the entry hall part of my room.

3

i only shoot black and white pics with the front camera on my iphone.

this is me going down to the lobby 30 minutes after checking in.

i was happy with the clothes i took over with me, but not with the hair

product. my barnet had a nightmare the whole time i was in china.

grrr !

4

my starbucks boycott is still going strong. i reckon it was july 2010

that i last gave them some of my money.

well... having said that, i do occasionally turn a blind eye to my boycott

when i'm out of the country. i definitely had a starbucks at bangkok

airport in january and also i think in koh samui a year or so ago.

hmmm...

on this occasion the team walked straight past starbucks, shunning it for...

5

no, we didn't go into the happy lemon i'm afraid...

we actually settled down for coffee at costa !

it was the worst coffee i'd had in a preston guild !

moral of the story is ( i reckon ) when you're out of the country, try a local

place rather than sticking to places we have in england.

6

this is a still from a video i shot with my iphone.

a panoramic sweep across the shanghai skyline.

i was on the balcony of a restaurant here.

the restaurant was called "mr and mrs bund" and the food the team had

there was off the scale.

having not slept at all on the 12 hour flight, then gone straight to work 

30 minutes after checking in at the hotel. shooting all day then going out for 

an evening meal, i was absolutely shattered. 

i should have slept like a log.

instead, after maybe 2 hours sleep, i woke up wide awake. it was 2.45am.

i switched on the telly and...

7

started watching england v ukraine.

it was a pretty shoddy game eh ?

the only talking point was...

8

taking a break from his busy off the field schedule,

all round good guy john terry made a great goal-line clearance.

9

the chinese soccer experts had a good old laugh about it after the game.

10

they found it more amusing than the ukraine team did anyway.

you'd think that after watching such a dreary 90 minutes of football i would have

slept like a baby...

... wrong !