Wan To The Ping

Wan to the Ping

We've started our life in Shanghai! Whether you think we're nuts or our life looks like a blast to you, we hope you enjoy the pictures! This starts with our journeys over and shows some of our flat and our first two weeks here. We're exploring the French Concession and setting up our flat, having dinners out, nights in, and getting our lives set up.

You can also go back home if you fancy.

Heathrow. Last minutes of Britain.

35mm Summaron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Free tweeting win. Heathrow.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Welcome to the legroom club. Emergency exit seats FTW. Even eases a two-hour delay because chinese Families try to board a plane with kids that got out of hospital the same morning.

50mm Summicron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

As said. Legroom club. Awww yeah.
Also note the Virgin oversocks flogging all over the trousers.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

North of Novosibirsk.
Nuff said. The bright blob is the moon.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Mongolia.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Home!
It's 35 Celsius over here. Thank god theres an air con in every room.
I'll run about the hood to show you how it looks.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Wanping Lu
A solid cover of leaves, ensuring hardly any daylight comes through. It's not gloomy. It's awesome.

Rolleiflex 2.8e, Kodak Ektar 100.

Wuxing Lu badassery
Solid. He didn't do a wheelie setting off.

Rolleiflex 2.8e, Kodak Ektar 100.

Xujiahui.
Five minutes by bike off the Wan Ping. Major shopping, two KFCs, Subway, Burger King, McD. Take that, communism.

Rolleiflex 2.8e, Kodak Ektar 100.

HOLY CRAP. PENTUPLE WIN.
Still Xujiahui.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

More Xujiahui.
More shopping.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Going to work.
30 minutes of Line 1, all the way to the end. Shanghai kicked out 8 major subway lines in 10 years. Some of these are about two years old, the rolling stock is brand new, and, unfortunately, so are the drivers. It's a bit like riding karts. A sudden hard break so that everyone nearly falls over is followed by a sudden power surge because, obviously, he broke to hard. And again. And again.

50mm Summicron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Xinzhuang train station.
I get off there. I hit the local McCafe (yyup) and get the 10RMB coffee. Thats how we roll.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

The queue at said McCafe. They are all getting the 8RMB coffee/ orange water/ muffin triple.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Taxi to work. Like a boss.

50mm Summicron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Arrived!

50mm Summicron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Picking up Maraika.
Shanghai Metro Fun Facts: Trying to get people to adhere to unwritten international travel rules, these arrows should make people wait for people to exit the car first before storming in in masses. It doesn't even get close to working, this metro is a free for all.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Oh yeah, just great.

50mm Summicron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Passing time taking pictures then. Here's one.

50mm Summicron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Sleeping aussies. Awwwwh.

50mm Summicron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Alright. Assuming position...

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

There she is!!

35mm Summaron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Into the taxi, home we go!

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Arrived!

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Went to the IKEAs, bought the SOFAs.

15mm Super Wide Heliar on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

That's what we call personality, folks.

35mm Summaron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Buying bikes. Absolutely the penultimate method of travel in this incredibly convenient and bike friendly city.

35mm Summaron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

And having brunch. Coffee tree. Full. Of. Germans.

35mm Summaron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Buying flowers, girl moves in etc.

35mm Summaron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

More from da hood.
This is all round the corner from us. LIKING it.

35mm Summaron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

Sunday relaxisms. Bliss.

35mm Summaron on Leica M3, Kodak Ektar 100.

In one of the more expensive restaurants in Shanghai, this is on the ladie's toilet. Can anyone help? What?

Nikon Coolpix S210

Clubbin'. Yeah I know but it's 10 quid and open bar. Whatchagonnado. Plus, professional onspeaker-dancing going on there. - Seb wrote that, I think this place is awesome. Bitching music, lazy russian dancers, SO much to look at.

Nikon Coolpix S210