Fair Trade… and Shanghai… « tanyariches

He assured me I could easily find the information desk, book myself into a tour of the city and return for the flight later that night. It was 2004, and I was twenty something, Western and blonde (admittedly from a bottle, not from Scandinavian genes) .... We turned up at a marble foyer of Astor House, an old hotel. Sipping tea, the men decided to smoke. It was clear the younger one was bored and now wanted off the tour with the Australian woman. As we got to the airport, ...