SHARING WITH ME

The bullet train was the local TGV with added announcements  at every station of messages to " be good, clean, respectful, not to get off for a smoke at a station........" This did not stop passengers shouting into mobile telephones. I remember this from Hong Kong but on a 5 hour trip it´s a bit much. Passengers laugh at conversations. Foreigners growl. I dozed. The young man next to me sang. His voice was quite good. We arrived dead on time and Veronique was there to meet me. Her French was even better than the girl in Beijing. So here I was back in the lights and energy of Shanghai. In the centre. An old hotel but quiet. The Astor. In fact it was the first hotel in Shanghai and has retained its traditional feeling.  As it was  As the dining room is   I insisted on having wifi in my room so was moved the following morning with a view which was not to complain about. But then, I don't complain if I get by and there were a few problems I had in Sh