A few visits to Shanghai are enough to change the perspective from which I view the city. When I was sitting at the open window of an old Shanghai hotel with some Tango music playing and pigeons making circles around their dwelling on top of a red roof, I sensed a unique romantic appeal of Shanghai that one can certainly indulge in.
In Shanghai one feels lighter, like a passer-by, fascinated by a fine mixture of imported and in-grown cultures that is the hallmark of the "Oreintal Paris".