Today I met Heather at the subway and we went to Shanghai zoo. It wasn’t as nicely landscaped as Beijing zoo, but the animals had bigger enclosures. We went on the big Ferris wheel to get a birds eye view of the zoo and then took a sort of golf buggy vehicle that took us around the zoo (it was huge, we never would have been able to walk it, especially as it was quite hot again today).
After the zoo we took the subway to West Nanjing Road to do some shopping and had lunch at Marks and Spencers! I had a chicken salad and it was amazing, nowhere in China seems to have salad at all so it was a welcome change. I then returned to the hostel before we met up with Sam at 6pm to go out for dinner. We took the subway to Pudong (across the river from the Bund) it is a posh finance district and we had seen an Italian while going past on the open top bus. It was a bit more expensive, but the food was amazingly good and it was a really nice atmosphere just me, Heather and Sam, catching up properly.
My friend Mark (who is a teacher at Beijing International school) arrived in Shanghai today and text me to see if I wanted to meet for a drink, so after dinner myself and Sam said our goodbyes to Heather who was leaving tomorrow and took a taxi to go and meet Mark. We picked him up on the Bund and took the taxi to Big Bamboo, a bar I had read about in my lonely planet guide. We had passed a few bars on the way so we decided to try a few of them and went to the red dragon across the road. There were two women stood in the doorway and they were shouting hello and telling Sam and Mark that they had fuseball and to come in. I sat at the bar next to the fuseball table where Sam and Mark had been challenged to a 2 Vs 2 game of fuseball with these two women. I started to look around the bar and realised that there were 8 waitresses for only us 3 customers. Then 3 men walked in, picked a “waitress” each and went through a curtain into a back room, which I thought was a bit odd. Then two more western men walked in and I asked one of them if it was just a bar (I had a feeling we had stumbled across something more) The man said he didn’t know so I returned to my stool at the bar, a few minutes later he came over and said that it wasn’t just a bar, we had stumbled on a brothel!!! I have never felt so uncomfortable and I was trying to catch Mark and Sam’s eyes but they were too engrossed in their game of fuseball (which they lost painfully to these two prostitutes) They finally came over and we very quickly finished our drinks and left! We had a drink in a bar around the corner and Sam and Mark wanted to go to a club nearby, as soon as we got there though I decided that I had had enough and left them to it.
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