No Problem, late morning on Saturday we went off to Shanghai. Well, it's a long ride in the car, so the first thing we did was having brunch at the Element Fresh. Unfortunately this Restaurant has no dependence in Suzhou. It was planned but never opened in the end. TIC,
After that we were ready to take the big shopping tour. In the bright sun we left the cheap five-and-ten-cent-stores untouched and headed.....
directly to Mark & Spencer. Well, there is no Christmas without I learned. What is so special at M&S. Hmmm, there is some Scottish mineral water. Ok, what else. My assumption is, it's just the name. Beside of the name, hey, it's a store like others (uups, maybe I should now disable the feedback form ;-)
But we survived also M&S and the result was 2 happy English ladies. But this was only the first stop. Next one was the fake market. This is definetly a must. Shoes, clothes, choppers, cars, just everything. Totally unclear for us was, that Liz refused to have a nice jet-pilot helmet as her birthday present. She mumbled something about "meo e-bike" oder so. But we found her dream car: a RC Mini.
Enough of shopping after 4 hours or so. We boarded the next Taxi in the direction to the French quarter. But the Taxi driver refused to drive us. That's too near, we should walk. In Shanghai you're still the king as costumer, one should think. Anyway, 15 minutes and a couple of construction sites we arrived there.
In the French quarter, which is part of the old town of Shanghai, we decided to have a rest first. It's birthday, we're thirsty and it's chilly cold. Make a long story short, after the rest we went direct to a Spanish restaurant and had a really good time together there.
But the weekend isn't over yet. Massimo was wiling to teach, how to prepare (or should it be called: celebrate) a real Risotto Milanese. But this is a total different story, maybe told next year.........
Until then, again merry Christmas, happy new year.
Schuhe...
...und
wie man sich die Füße kaputt macht....
