An incredible experience - where to next?

So, I'm back in the UK now, getting used to the time zone and food again. To say goodbye to my time in China, I wanted to show a collection of pictures from my favourite times, or from stories that didn't make it to a blog post.
Thanks for reading about my adventures, we'll see where I'll go next!
Merry Christmas

Wu kang lu

At Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Centre

At Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Centre

Sundial at Century Avenue

Cooked pumpkin stuffed with sweet rice

A street seller blowing sugar figurines - talk about asbestos hands!

Korean potato swirl on a stick

Pouring sugar shapes of Zodiac animals

Sugar dragon

A snail I found in my dish at the campus canteen!

Carving a pumpkin for Halloween in the lab

The Bund on our pumpkin - which won us the Halloween competition on Zai Shanghai!

Let's see how much fun we can have with dry ice

Lights at Nanjing Road West

What?!

My Hungarian friend Kálmán from my dorms discovered this bust of Petőfi Sándor, a famous Hungarian poet (whom incidentally, we had a reading of at my wedding!) Check out Kálmán's Hungarian expat blog here

Lotus pond at Renmin Park

Plate spinning

Sweet potatoes with melted sugar!

Cathedral at Xujiahui

Crying with laughter at KTV

Smoggy days

Fresh hot pot ingredients ready for cooking!

Ridiculously long sheet of tofu

Ice sculptures of polar bears at Xujiahui

My favourite little guy at the orphanage - I wish I could have adopted him!

So cute! I miss him so much

My friend Michael who taught me some Chinese, with his room mates (L -R Constantine, Chris, robot, Michael and Eric)

Blizzard thick ice cream milkshakes, so thick, they're served upside down!

Blizzard thick ice cream milkshakes!

Jin Mao Tower from the ground up

Looking down all 88 floors at Jin Mao Tower

Shanghai World Financial Centre (or the "bottle opener")

So that's China done. Where to next?