Twenty minutes bike-ride from our place there is a morning market where you can get your dentures fixed right on the street. You can buy five inch long things that look like lobster, fresh seaweed, live turtles and fish (killed for free). You can watch a man hitting himself with a snake, another man making [...]
Today the smog is very bad which is surprising because last Friday we could see the mountains from our window. It is the first time I noticed them even though they are only a thirty minute bike ride from here. There are no foothills, they just rise right out of the flat-lands. It was the [...]
Saturday morning we woke to an orange sky and very poor visibility. We later learned that it was a dust storm blowing from the desert. Beijing’s weather bureau gave a rare hazardous air quality ranking. A sand storm in 2006 dumped 300,000 tons of sand on Beijing- yes 300,000 tons!! These four photos were taken [...]
Paul and I went to visit the Forbidden City last Saturday. Paul had been there before but I was unable to go because I was teaching. Below are some of the pictures we took. Enjoy!
Today we thought we would publish some photos of the daily sights we see on our walks and outings in Beijing.
Yesterday we went to Wumart and bought our new bikes. The first ones we had were very cheap and had no gears so they were very hard to ride. Paul pretty much wore out his with all the riding he did during the first term and Kathy gave her’s away so we could both have [...]
