Good that the Beijing summer is much warmer than Glasgow. Not so good – the humidity is up. But thanks to welcome visitors we’ve had some fun…
Jing Jing returned from being baby sat by one of Matt’s helpful colleagues, not the usual engineering challengeZoe, all the way from Hong Kong, outside Capital M restaurant – long established in China – celebrating Australian “fine dining”
glazed ceramic roof tiles at Tiantan [temple of heaven] park
one of the beautiful [unexpected] local parksstartling bright green and a strange stone – actually there’s a whole separate park nearby dedicated to “strange stones”reflectionJoe at Houhai lake – unfortunately the least inspiring coffee shop – but hey nice viewthe same lake at night798 art district- po-mo, post-industrial, neoliberal – good, clean, family fun [and toilets]more 798dramatic thunderstorm – an hour of continuous lightning, localised ankle deep flooding and amongst it all an army of drain unblockers and people with suction machines ensuring the city traffic halted for the merest second onlysummer flooding – no problem![not] the tour de France – probably couldn’t cycle up Mont Ventoux pollution or no pollutionrounded off with a visit to Beijing aquarium – a popular destinition for families with school age kids, definitely not best suited to the animal residents but surprisingly better than expected, hard to describe the crowds, this picture tries to give a glimpse of China on holidayboy looks at fishback to normal routine – our local stray looking quite picturesque in the stairwell
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