Beijing Condos

... form...but we found our chariot. With GPS in hand (finally....Greg gave in) we took a circuitous route through downtown Beijing which is absolutely amazing.  We passed through downtown, past Tienneman square, and onwards.  In total we must ...

... or superficial, they focus on harmony and symbolism.  On the way to dinner, we experienced the horrendous traffic jam during Beijing rush hour. The dinner was also served family style and the dish of specialty was Peking duck. It was extremely good, ...

... blogged for a week. Now is the time to fill you all in. What I've been doing: Everything! Although I will be staying in Beijing for the whole semester, up until this point I have only spent three nights here. We started this semester off with a tour of ...

... Instead of being soaking wet all the time we are so dry our lips and heels are cracking.  Our first impression of Beijing was far different that I had warned everyone about – the pollution.  We arrived in 40 degree temperatures with high ...

... (we're building 9) and they are all approximately 20 stories high. If you ever see pictures of obnoxious skyscraper-style condos in a picture of Beijing - we live in something like that. We have a massage parlor in the lobby...and yes, it's a legit ...

... Beard to name a few). They were all very nice and seemed to love Christine. The apartments are nice, but will make strange condos when the games are over (at least by spoiled American standards). For those 'Cuse fans out there - Christine said that ...

... for August! Back at the apartment we went for our last swim before heading back up to the flat. We had an hour or so before the Beijing crew came down to look through the stuff we were leaving behind. We had no Wii, no DVDs, no games. So we sat and ...

... side, in particular my godmother. We then fly to Beijing where we have a three day tour around all the main sights of Beijing. I'm quite glad I read Wild Swans before planning this! After Beijing we fly south to Taipei, which I thought was part of China. ...

... been up and after a brainwave the previous night was looking at how much it would cost to do a round trip including hong Kong, Beijing and Japan rather than trying to leave Japan to another trip later in life thus saving at least £1000 in flights alone. ...

... he did leave just as I was saying he should leave now, and he'd managed to book the flights from Hong Kong to Beijing, and Beijing to Taipei! Almost there on the flights now! I originally went for wearing my new black cheongsam, but changed after Ben ...

... might fit it in one the journey. In the end, rather ridiculously, our journey will now take us from KL to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Beijing, Beijing to Taipei, Taipei to Tokyo, Tokyo to Kyoto, Kyoto (Osaka) to KL. Not a round trip if you look at a map, but ...

... 's director, at Hakka, the restaurant we went to about a month ago. When we got there we were joined by Frank, Hui (Beijing office manager), Faisal and PiPi, Madhu and Lakshmi, Shree and Priya. I don't think anyone had checked that Frank knew Lakshmi and ...

... I spent learning a bit of Mandarin (most of which I have no forgotten) that O might be able to use with Ben's Beijing colleagues, watching a set of BBC documentaries on Beijing before the 2008 Olympics which Dad gave to me before we left. I also decided ...

... the day was spent packing suitcases and moving all the stuff we'd bought to furnish our furnished flat into a pile so that the Beijing crew could take what they want from it all tomorrow. We already had one box ready to ship and after finally getting the ...

... one. We now have too much food in the house for us to use up in the time we're here. I think we're going to ask the Beijing crew to pop down and see if there is anything they want in terms of food and general stuff, probably in the last day or so. At 4pm ...

... towards a hung parliament and our constituency had gone to new Tory member, Zac Goldsmith. ARGH! We were meeting up with the Beijing crew for dinner and Bo had chosen his favourite cafe which serves a range of Malay, Chinese and "Western" food. The Cafe ...

... stranded. We were preparing ourselves for 10 hours of travelling if we had to go from Kyoto to Hong Kong, via Beijing, then onto Singapore before heading to KL. Bizarrely, and rather miraculously, tickets had become free on the Malaysian Airlines flight ...