My flight arrived in Shanghai only a few hours after the train would have arrived so I was just in time to meet Peng Yong who is in the NM queue and who wanted me to sign his key. He drove me around the city for a while, took me out for lunch and then we met Johnny Ko who is also interested in joining Debian. We talked for a while, did keysigning and then went our own way. I checked into the hotel, relaxed for a bit, checked my e-mail and then walked around the city for a while.
I spent the next two days doing sightseeing. I visited the Bund, the TV tower (but I didn't go up), went to some shopping places and some other random stuff. It was really interested, especially the big contrast of Beijing and Shanghai. Shanghai is the big commercial center and it is very westernized. And Shanghai is so much warmer than Beijing! The weather was really nice.
The hotel I stayed in was from Eastern airlines and they had huge reductions on their tickets. I asked them what a flight to Beijing would be so I could decide whether to take the train or a flight and it turned out that a flight was cheaper than taking the train! Now, we have low cost airlines in Europe which are significantly cheaper than trains, but to get good rates you usually have to book months in advance. However, I booked a ticket in the morning for a flight leaving in the evening and I only paid about one third of the original price. Really nice. I arrived in Beijing and went to the office again to stay for the night.