Still Time for a Summer Excursion to Tsingtao

Summer may be drawing to an end but the annual summer excursions by boat from Shanghai to Tsingtao continued through until the end of September, courtesy of the Dairen Kisen Kaisha line. The ships sailed every other day and even the first class fare seems pretty affordable to me and a far nicer way to get from Shanghai to Tsingtao than a clanking China Eastern plane in cattle class. Still, everyone wants to get everywhere in a rush these days and ignore scenery while staring at their Blackberry screen moronically so the service has faded away. Still in 1937….