Return to sender

I have come full circle and returned to Shanghai.


I flew back from London, and covered much of the same territory I had done on the train. Skipping most of Europe we flew over Latvia, and up past Moscow and St Petersburg. The flight across Russia was much further north than the route I did on the train, however we turned down and crossed Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. It is amazing to have seen Lake Baikal frozen from ground level, then see it as big as an ocean from the air. We flew down through Mongolia and passed Beijing before landing in Shanghai. My first views of the city were of a landscape covered with thousands of identical apartment buildings, we then flew out over the massive brown expanse of the Yangtze river, dotted with container ships and oil tankers. Back to Shanghai indeed.

I am at this point going through photos and getting other posts ready. Update soon...