Yo, Shanghai Czech-in has made it all the way to 2019.
Crazy, right? Since we’ve made
it this far, it’s pretty safe to say you gonna keep on getting top quality blog content on weekly basis throughout
the following year. Whether you like it or not...
My year started quite amazing. On Monday, I got a bottle of
some scotch and in the evening, went to my friends’ spot to do some New Years’ Eve
drinking. It was a really small thing – there
were three of us. I really enjoyed it tho. No clubbing, no dealing with crowds
of people, just a chilled hangout, some good alcohol and music.... Real ass
adult shit. I believe I got home around 3 or 4 which left me with about two
hours before going to Hongqiao railway station to catch a train to Wuyi. Couple
of weeks back, me and my friend planned out this one night stay in hot springs – it was her idea (obviously) and
since I hadn’t tried it ever before, it
was an easy yes by me. Even though we had some problems finding the spot (there’s tons of hot springs closer to
Shanghai, but most of them were booked out), we managed to get a room at Qingshuiwan
Hot Spring Holiday Village. So there I was... Early morning, drunk as a skunk,
on my way to subway....
It took us some time to locate each other at the station
which only made me realize I’m still
fucked. I’m usually bulletproof when it
comes to orientation and navigating through shit... For a second, I really
thought the whole trip is gonna end up right there... However, we made it, I
recharged on the train a little bit and around lunch time, we checked-in.
The resort is situated pretty much in the middle of nowhere (if you don’t count couple of houses around the
road nearby), it is massive, relatively high-end and not really internationalized.
Even though they try to throw in elements of Western design and cuisine into
the mix (in a pretty confusing way), it’s super
Chinese – nobody speaks English and
over the two days, I saw one foreigner around. We did a pretty awesome lunch
(in a Chinese restaurant which was vegan friendly, unlike that wannabe Western
spot they had over there), and then headed to the hot springs. And man, how
awesome was that. Outside temperature was somewhere around zero, but the water
was like 40 degrees. They had both dry and wet sauna, they had an indoor area,
and a huge outdoor space with dozens of tubs and small pools. So even though
there were quite a lot of people, it wasn’t a
problem to find yourself a secluded spot and chill in privacy. And most
importantly, we were walking around half naked, dissolving our asses in the hot
water, feeling the warmth all the way up in cores of our bones. Which is a
feeling I hadn’t experienced in weeks. I got
so chilled, even talking seemed quite redundant. I passed out at the hotel room
around 9pm (after a delicious dinner), and did solid 12 hours of sleep – something that happens like twice a
year to my insomniac ass. The day after, we did the whole thing again and in
the evening, we were on our way back to the city of Shanghai. Relaxed,
recovered, feeling amazing....
Friday evening, I met with some of my peers in Funkadeli,
where one our friends actually had a shift, for some beers. Saturday afternoon,
I met up with my biking partner to do the Science and Technology Museum. Yeah,
the one with that big ass fake market underneath. Been at the market couple of
times but never actually visited the museum before. Not that I expected much
from it, but the distance is quite perfect for a ride and you know.... Another
item to cross off your to-do list... The building is quite spectacular. 4 floors
full of everything – animals, rocket science, IT
stuff, biology.... All in easy-to-digest way. I didn’t really pay much attention to anything particularly, but
it was a cool having all the shit you won’t ever
understand around. While we were at it, I check out that HappyCow app (shout out!)
to see whether there are some cool veggie restaurants in the area. This Veggie
House place popped up, so after we were done with furthering our knowledge, we
hopped on the bikes and did like a 20 minutes’ ride
over there. I’m pretty sure that was the first
time me eating in a restaurant in Pudong. The food was absolutely gorgeous and
really affordable. And they have so much shit on the menu, I have a feeling, we
gonna be back quite soon. We continued to this ferry going to Nanpu bridge and
wrapped the whole thing up.
On Sunday, my friends organized another KTV night. I was
quite busy the whole day but I managed to meet up with my biking partner again
to do some quick peanut noodles for a dinner. Then we followed to this KTV spot
at Dapu Lu. 3 hours of passionate off key singing, beers and shit talking. Cool
as a cucumber... After that, we took it to the Taphouse spot at Yongkang Lu to
kill some more braincells...
So yeah, last week was quite eventful, everything is going
well over here, temperature got up a little a bit, shit is fine... Hope you
started your 2019 good as well, and thanks for following the best fucking blog
in the universe... Talk to y’all
soon!
Highlights:
- Hot Springs – I mean really. Just try it out. Haven’t been this chilled out probably ever....
- The Looming Tower – pretty awesome TV series.
- D’Angelo – Unshaken. Definitely my jam the last week. Youtube that shit...
