ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’49” N 121°35’56” E
February 18, 2019 in China ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
It was absolutely pouring today, on Poppy’s first day back at work, so Mommy and the kids decided to explore the local area just a tiny bit. We discovered on Google Maps a Tesco’s a few subwayRead more
ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’56” N 121°35’39” E
March 10, 2019 in China ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
What would we do without Bohai Dining Hall’s second floor build-your-own-bowl noodle soup station?! The kids love being able to pick their own ingredients and quantities, Poppy loves that he canRead more
ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’48” N 121°35’40” E
February 22, 2019 in China ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
Metros, bikes, an incredibly leveraged three-wheeler, a flatbed recycling lorry and an absolutely packed post van! Still to come, the mag-lev and fastest passenger train in the world! (At least forRead more
ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’49” N 121°35’39” E
February 23, 2019 in China ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
While there is plenty of hilarious signage in “English” pretty much all over the place, we have the privilege of calmly recording a few samples for posterity from around ShanghaiTech campus. I didRead more
ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’33” N 121°35’26” E
February 24, 2019 in China ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Our home campus for the next two months: ShanghaiTech! After the whirlwind tour with Yuning last weekend and a busy week settling in, we finally had a chance to wander around a bit on our own andRead more
ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’24” N 121°35’46” E
February 26, 2019 in China ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Uhm, dude, cuz you and your stuff are taking up the whole family sofa! #lazyboy #lazyday
Quote of the day: Upon losing a collaborative escape game -
Meg: “C'mon Davy let's play it again!”
Davy:Read more
ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’56” N 121°35’49” E
March 6, 2019 in China ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
One of the newest additions to the Shanghai subway map, Zhongke is the station that serves ShanghaiTech University. Apparently we are extremely lucky with our timing, in that it was just installed aRead more
ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’41” N 121°35’42” E
March 10, 2019 in China ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
So we have just seen the highest concentration of ShanghaiTech kids ever - even including at the canteens (well to be fair we are always running late to meals) - out on the fields playing ultimate!Read more
ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’56” N 121°35’46” E
March 13, 2019 in China ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Our mission this afternoon was to find the ShanghaiTech Music Room. We set off for Room 305 above one of the cafés, labeled on the campus map as the Music Relaxing Room, but found it equipped with aRead more
ChinaShanghaiLujiazhai31°10’38” N 121°35’39” E
March 13, 2019 in China ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
It’s nine floors of poop flowing into a recycling bucket of course!
Had a bit of a plumbing snafu at the appartement this week, which generated a rather gag-inducing stench for the last three days.Read more
You might also know this place by the following names:
Lujiazhai, 陆家宅
Traveler Chinese tesco?? As in, proper British tesco, in China?
Traveler Yes! Same logo at least! We are going on the weekend to check it out - hoping to find butter (apparently a rare find in China), eggs and cheese!