Leisure street
I can still not write back at the comment section, due to access problems with Haloscan. So, I will just react here. Indeed, Bellevue, Hengshan Road is still one of the more beautiful places in Shanghai, reason enough for many of the party leaders to live in this neighborhood, with even the Jiang Zemin residence close to Hengshan Hotel. That is probably the reason the street retained much of its atmosphere: always useful to have a few big shots hanging around, that brings down the noise-level, although they sometimes also add to the traffic problems.
I often walk (when the weather is not as cold and rainy as today) to Hengshan subway station to enjoy it, although Xujiahui station is a bit closer. Cafe Picardi has not survived, I fear. I frequent a couple of watering places in Hengshan Road, including Sasha's in the villa of one of the Song sisters at the corner of Dongping Road. It includes also the 'Leisure street', which is not as bad as it sounds. I wonder when they took the picture: must have happend during SARS, since normally it is a bit more populated. Guess that cafe Picardi has been replaced by a few more ugly buildings, where we now can find disco "Real Love", where nothing is real, including the love.
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