Thematic Photographic 197: Far from Home

In 2004 I had the good fortune to take a group of 17-year-old students 

on an exchange trip to Shanghai.

Although I've been to places which are a lot further away from home in terms of kilometres, in a cultural sense it's the furtherest I've ever been away from home.

Street scenes:

Parking space Footpath:

 

 Night view of the Oriental Pearl Tower,  taken from the 

nearby Jin Mao Tower:

Ground floor foyer, Shanghai Museum:

School grounds, Jiading #2 High School:

Hot Pot dinner with my host teacher's family:

Go here to Carmi's Written Inc. for more faraway photos.

Another flash or two...

I had to have a second go at this theme.

I've been searching through my travel albums for some more flashes of colour:

At a rice farm in Tuscany

Pink meerkats in Portofino

Vernazza, Cinque Terre

In a vineyard near Parma

Detail of a window in the Duomo, Milan

A taxi in Palermo, Sicily

Jiading, China

I didn't dare go near my Turkish albums - otherwise this post might go on forever! 

For more flashes of colour, go here.