OK, so maybe you love museums, maybe you don’t. Either way, we can probably all agree that sometimes museums get boring. But not the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre.
OK, so maybe you love museums, maybe you don’t. Either way, we can probably all agree that sometimes museums get boring. But not the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre.
Anytime you travel to a country where you can’t speak the language, it will be a bit of a challenge. When you can’t even recognize the alphabet they use, that challenge gets a little more challenging. And when the locals you’re around speak as little of your language as you do of theirs—which might be pretty much none—you’re in for adventure.
Eating might be one of my greatest loves—new food, home food, strange food (I recently ate a termite in Belize)—I’ll take it all. Happily. But eating local food, to me, is the truest way to a country’s soul. In China, what did it for me was the dumplings.
Not that you can really claim to know a city after spending 24 hours there, but sometimes that’s all the time you’ve got to see it. And although it doesn’t seem like much, you can really handle business in a day if you do it right. Here’s how I spent one perfect day in Shanghai.