Shanghai - street life

Alright, blogger's being a pain and the pictures aren't uploading properly, so here's just a start of the pictures to come (4 out of a total of 54). It took me half-an-hour to post these four and I'm not going to waste any more time. Hope this site works better soon, there'll be more later.

Shanghai's museum is the large circular-shaped building on the left, Shanghai's opera (not the best architecture) is the white semi-circular building in the middle, and out of the frame to the right is Shanghai's urban exhibition centre. We didn't visit one of them, but we walked around them all. We did visit Shanghai's contemporary art museum, which was really quite good (albeit small) It had a funky music video created by a Japanese artist that both Katia and I really enjoyed. It also had a handsome English-speaking guard who talked to us about one of the exhibits which was a door and a classic Chinese instrument that had been burnt in a wired cage...
Saturday seemed to be "washday" - so many people were cleaning their clothes in tubs (some using ancient wooden washing boards) along the street, and then clothes were hanging everywhere to dry, even on the conveniently-located bamboo scaffolds, sometimes dripping onto inconveniently-located pedestrians down below.
If you enlarge the picture, you might notice that it's of a whole bunch of small hole-in-the-wall restaurants. The architecture is quite different in Shanghai - a lot more European-looking.
Some wokers pushing bamboo poles along a street. Some more lovely architecture in the background. We did a lot of walking.