Fleeting visit to Shanghai (Jan 2006)

Last week I was in Shanghai for a few days. It was for work so I didn't have a chance to do much sightseeing, but even just driving around it was interesting.

This is some video of what it was like. The modern looking skyscrapers and high visibility of western brands in the shop windows made me feel surprisingly at home.

Walking around in one of the main shopping streets...



From the back of a taxi...



One of my favourite parts was going on the Maglev train which is supposedly the fastest in the world. We got up to 430 km/hr! This is some film of the experience.

Maldives (Aug 2002)

We spent a lovely week at the Banyan Tree in the Maldives back in 2002. It was their off-season and they were building a new entrance pavilion, so we got a fantastic deal in terms of prices. The weather was still perfect, and the added bonus was that we almost had the island to ourselves! Off-season was definitely a great time to go.

This is a compilation of some of the film we took walking around the island, playing in the sea, etc. It was a lovely place, watching this brought back a lot of memories.



One of the highlights for me of the trip was the local wildlife. This video is a compilation of some of my favourites. It includes a sea turtle, friendly wild stingrays that came up to the beach each night for petting, a lovely cute hermit crab, fish playing 'football' with breadrolls we threw to them, and some of the luckiest hens in the world.



UPDATE (Apr 2011): I don't remember making this but apparently a few years ago I put together a compilation of the best clips set to music. Here tis: