Qianmen Hostel Beijing
No.33 Meishijie, Xuanwu District Beijing, 100051, China
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Back to beijing: I saw the Olympics!
Wish I had kept this blog while I was actually here - when the number of things I have to say about Beijing actually surpassed my laziness in saying them. Right now, I'm sitting in my apartment at 8:30 pm on a Saturday night because everyone either went home or went to do karaoke, and tonight, I just wasn't feeling it. And I think that perfectly …
798 Art District
Today, Max, Jeronimo, and I payed a visit to 798 Art District. Formerly a factory, this complex now houses the homes, studios, workshops, and galleries of China's cutting edge artists. Some was almost indistinguishable from similar western avant-garde art. Some was beautiful. Some was ugly. And a few galleries aimed at revealing something truly …
Tom Baloo and the realization of the Olympic dream
Maybe I'd become too used to China or something. But upon meeting my roommate I really wasn't too impressed. Just some 40-something, slightly overweight Floridian who had come to some strange place to see the Olympics. Especially after utterly confusing my previous roommates (girls) (and myself) by saying how awesome Gambia is in the same sentence …
Temple of Heaven
I count myself lucky to have been in Beijing for 3 of the handful of sunny days Beijing gets all year. And on these glorious sunny, blue sky days, I made the short trip from Qianmen to the Temple of Heaven Park, still within the old Ming City. I wasn't so much interested in the temples and sights, they were just as nice from the outside so I didn't …
Back To Beijing: the unOlympic part
I got back to Beijing on the 7th, the day before the biggest day in its recent history. Unfortunately, they cleaned up the city too much, no grilling outside, closed nightmarkets, put up walls blocking views of the older, more aged areas of the old Ming city, really took some of the soul out of the city. But still, I love Beijing. The history, …



