Travelogues Shanghai

On May 7, 2025, the time had finally come. We boarded the plane in Frankfurt heading to Shanghai. After a 19-hour journey with a layover in Abu Dhabi, we arrived in Shanghai....

Left my independence for safekeeping at the airport!

Yesterday I finally set off towards Germany. My first stopover was Shanghai, as I wanted to pick up my luggage here. So I'll tell you a little bit about what it's like here. We...

Now, after more than 80 days on my journey, it's time for the Asian cities. First on the list was Shanghai, followed by Hong Kong a few days later. I was particularly excited...

Shanghai has become amazingly beautiful since we were here 20 years ago, with a lot of greenery, flowers on all the highways, clean, no litter on the ground. And of course, it's...

Skyline - the tower is way on the right (I think you should go up, it's only €20)

China has impressed us a lot. Just beyond the Chinese border, you enter a whole new world. In China, there are 50 million cities - even relatively smaller places feel...

After my time in Japan and South Korea, it's finally time for me (or unfortunately... I'm also sad not to be able to be in Seoul anymore) to start my semester abroad in...

Finally, I have some time to show you the campus. Unfortunately, there is no nice and complete overview plan, but this one should work, even though it's not really complete. ...

Shanghai Old town

Shanghai is colorful, big, loud, rich and poor, new and old, and above all impressive. We arrived in the evening and took the metro from the airport to our hostel on Nanjing...

After a very restful flight from FRA via HKG to Shanghai

Our weekend was a mix of relaxation after the first week and a bit of sightseeing. On Saturday, Thomas and I took a little trip to the older part of Jiading, our neighborhood....

From Beijing, we took the train to Shanghai. While I imagined an old box with rotten, stinky seats, we were greeted by a state-of-the-art train that couldn't be better found in...

But, hey: life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. With these words, I concluded my last blog post last year. Rarely has this proverb been truer than in 2024....

Shanghai - Day 32-36 - August 14-19, 2019

A day marked by contrasts and superlatives ... In addition to the Yu Garden, another neighborhood left a lasting impression on me last year, the 'French Concession'. Shanghai...

I slept like a log on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. The tiredness from the almost 30-hour journey made me completely ignore the time difference (currently 6 hours). After...

Outlook at the Bund

We start from the hotel with our bus to an entrance building for the Hua point entrance security control transport, the usual program, and then with an extra bus to the cable...

We traveled from Suzhou to Shanghai by bullet train. The hostel we stayed at was more like a hotel with a great location. Of course, we visited the Bund together and enjoyed the...

Kids & Sightseeing On Saturday, the focus was on the kids. In addition to the normal Saturday program, both boys have soccer training at school and Mika also has guitar...

Pancakes in Chinese

My first trip to Asia!

After finishing in Nanxun, part of our group continued to travel to Shanghai. There we spent the last two days with my fellow teachers 😊 Since we will be coming back to...

Finally arrived. After 5.5 hours (to Dubai) and another 8 hours of flight with Emirates, we landed in Shanghai. Both flights were quite okay, with the champagne in business...

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