First days

We arrived in Shanghai after 13 hours in the air - the flight was easy and seemed short compared to the taxi ride from the airport! Lots of highways where all we could see was the tops of big buildings. Once we got off the major roads the area around the hotel was more what the guidebooks describe - a Sunday afternoon of stalls below the living quaters of the sellers. they are like one dark little closet after another of shoes or live crabs or dead chickens or electric meters. Laundy hanging out from most apartments. We walked for an hour and I did not see another Westerner - but did not feel uneasy. Everyone looked - no one spoke. Today we take the train to Nanjing.