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Cuandixia, old and new. (Plus some nice mountains)
Hello everybody! Beijing has been an interesting place recently as this week everybody is on break since it is a national holiday. It has been very nice to have the time off of school but unfortunately I did not plan anything super special for this time off so it has been a little slow around here. This is added to by the Italians all having gone on vacations to various cities in China so about 50 percent of the population here is missing. I feel like I'm living in a ghost ...
Posledni cinska bitva vzplala
... dne a skoncil v kosi. Další den jsme ale plni elanu a planu vyrazili na prohlidku města. Oboje jsme ale ztratili hned po navsteve nejvetsiho namesti světa – TIANMEN a palacoveho komplexu tzv. ZAKAZANEHO MESTA, kterou jsme stravili asi ve 40°C vedru za asi 80% vlkosti s dalsimi 3 miliony Cinanu. Zatimco namesti Tianmen je zrudny projev exhibicionismu komunistickych predstavitelu Ciny, Zakazane mesto je krasne a plne zajimave ...
Tiberius Conquers the Scorpion
... other than Joanne. The others, despite their being older than me, seemed to have tried far less things and had much less overall life experience. All I could do at this was sigh and say I wasn’t surprised.
Finally, after our Chinese style hamburgers and bland game where we confirmed what I’d already suspected, it was time to go do something actually unique to China. We were off to the Bizarre Food Street, where we knew they sold everything from fried scorpion ...
Dampfende Gassen
... Nur ein paar Schritte weiter, können sich Freunde des Kitsches austoben und ihrer Kaufwut freien Lauf lassen.
Natürlich, hatte das ganze schon etwas Touristisches an sich. Trotzdem haucht auch eine Brise Authentizität durch die Luft, sodass man sich gut vorstellen kann, wie beengt es sich in so mancher Pekinger Gasse gelebt haben muss. Man kann die Atmosphäre des alten China hier spüren.
Wir spazieren über den Tiananmen Platz Richtung Süden und ...
1/27 Silk Worms and Baijiu = Bad Ideas
... out in the nearest trash can. I tried to offer the rest to Anne and Dragana, but after watching my performance they decided against it. I threw the stick in the trash can, but it was rapidly received by a homeless person, who snatched it up and walked away with the prize. Other things we ate included scorpions (Zach), snake, octopus, fried dumplings, mixed fruit, and these fried balls of air which the person working in the stall claimed to contain banana, ...



