What to do when you are bored?

Shanghai can be expensive.
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Rain on Nanjing.
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Street store on Nanjing.
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More rain on Nanjing.
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Color!
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The lotus are in bloom right now. These flowers are giant!
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So, what does any self respecting world traveler do when they are bored? Why they go to Shanghai, that's what they do.

I really had no reason to go other than I wanted to get out of Linping for a while. I like big cities. Linping is not one of those. It is small. Around 100,000 people. Sure it is close to Hangzhou, which is sitting at around 4 to 6 million depending on who you ask. I can get to HZ in a little over 40 minutes, but even HZ isn't Shanghai. Hangzhou is quite tourist oriented. Shanghai is flat-out big city.

Shanghai is a quick two hour bus ride. That puts me at the entrance to the metro, which makes getting anywhere quite simple. No taxi's, no city buses, no mess. In under three hours I can go from my apartment to sipping a beer in my hostel.