Apologies for the abscence of updates for over a week now - no I wasn't literally Shanghaied, I simply went slightly upmarket (a 3 star hotel) for a few days and so lost my hostel internet access, and have been catching up (drinking too much wine) with recent (from my North Korea jaunt) and older friends (from years before back in Sydney) in Hong Kong.
There were however some very funny experiences to share, particularly from Shanghai. The best one, which I don't have time to detail here (as I am packing for Macau tomorrow) involves sitting next to the Italian sub-consel after freeloading my way on to a 5 course dinner at the 5 star Le Meridien within 5 hours of landing...
Anyway, for those of who were moderately worried about my whereabouts: I survived Shanghai, have been in Hong Kong for the last 2 nights, and am spend Friday/Saturday gambling my life away in Macau, before flying home to land early Monday morning. I can only assume the dearth of comments on my posts over the last few weeks is a sign of how intereting and thought provoking they were and not a reflection on how few of how small my audeince is... :)
Signing off (for this trip) and looking forward to seeing you all again in Sydney.