Gold Coast Hotel Beijing
No.1-2 Hetaoyuan East Street, Xuanwu District Beijing, China
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... win once...but feel free to continue to post comments throughout the trip! Chinese Trivia #1 Chinese Postal Map Romanization was the system of romanization for Chinese place names which came into use in the late Qing dynasty and was officially sanctioned by the Imperial Postal Joint-Session Conference (帝國郵電 9;席會議), which ...
A Fortnight in Beijing
... all grins when we arrived (safely).
Built in 1807, and at the height of its glory, the Huguang Guild Hall, along with the Zhengyici Peking Opera Theater was known as one of the "Four Great Theaters" in all of Beijing. Many famous past and present opera performers have performed here. The theater is renowned for its magnificent interiors, which is colored in red, green and gold, and decked out with tables and a stone floor. We secured ourselves a ...
First day in the big city
... 15 01; אנגלי 14;?
מיליא 12;ד סינים אינם מדברי 01; אנגלי 14; ובאמת אין פה פייסב 93;ק-איזה קטע ...
A Long Goodbye
... in a supposed massacre on the night of June 3-4. Frustratingly, he says that the press in the west greatly exaggerated those demonstrations and it's ramifications, there may have been some accidents but nothing happened in the square. When we probe a little more about the person who stood infront of a tank, he says that he cannot discuss that and anything else related to that time.
On that rather oblique note we call it a night and head to a local restaturant to ...
Next Stop...Beijing Station
The Chinese National Holiday (creative name, I know) falls on October 1 every year. This year it fell on a Friday. It's the same as Canada Day except in China they get 7 days off. 7 days off if you live anywhere other than in Xingtai, that is. Apparently we are special here so we only got 4 days off. Luckily for me, I don’t work on Thursday afternoons ever so my holiday started half a day before the others. We had been told in early September about this holiday and I decided then that ...


