Detour from the detour

Rough weather on the way to the intended substitute for Taiwan, a Japanese island east of Taiwan, led the captain to turn back toward the Chinese coast and request permission to dock at Shanghai a day earlier than scheduled. So we took a detour from the the intended detour from the original plan to visit Taiwan. After two days at sea, we will enter the the river way to Shanghai at 4 am tomorrow morning and will dock at noon only a short distance from the Bund. An advantage of the smaller ship is that in Ho Chi Minh City, Halong Bay, Hongkong and now Shanghai, the ship could dock close to a city center.