OK, I felt like it is time to put another Red Door out here. You can see previous photos if you look under categories and choose Beijing.
Tag: China
Beijing Hu Tong Red Door #3
I have a few new photos from the recent trip but I don’t feel like they are ready to be posted yet, so I’ll go with one of the summer photos from Beijing. Number 3 in the Red Door Beijing Hu Tong series. This one has it share of use and abuse done to it. The left side is using aluminum wires to hold it together. I wonder if it is a cat door or just results of tear and wear, I don’t remember seeing any cats in China. See door #1 and door #2.
Click on the image to see it larger version with all of the glory details.
The Great Great Wall in the Smokes
19 years ago when I first time visited The Great Wall the weather was perfect, with blue skies and some pretty clouds. Past summer I was hoping to see the same view. Wasn’t to be. Hot, steamy white air was cloaking the hills. Slight disappointment. Nerveless, we had great time.
Biking around Beijing
Bike is one of the primary transportation types in China. This is probably one of the primary reasons why you are not going to see many overweight folks there (of course the food is another reason, it is mostly freshly prepared with a lot of vegies and no processed crap most of the western world like to eat).
This post is devoted to show many pictures with 2 and 3 wheeled bikes and a little video with our own riding around the city. We rented our bikes for a full day at the Bike Beijing bike rental place. They were very friendly, did not require deposit – I guess I look very trustworthy or maybe my teenage daughter was the key to it. We paid only 300 yuan to rent three of them for a full day.
You can watch the video via this embedded window or you can go via the following link and see it full screen. (http://chert.smugmug.com/gallery/13419553_9QVps#976592126_CwmjM-A-LB)
http://chert.smugmug.com/gallery/13419553_9QVps#976592126_CwmjM-A-LB
In China bikes are used for any imaginable purpose, such as beer delivery-
or shit and similar stuff delivery
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or just some crap
and more crap with as you can notice “Hello Kitty” all around it
street cleaning “trucks”
McDonalds anyone? you can do some home delivery if you get hungry for western food
or you can get a little motorbike and put your hot girlfriend in the back
maybe not
what ever stuff he got there
deliver some flat goods
or this one is an enterprising old fella with cage full of pigeons.. I wonder… food or other type of exotic pleasure
are there any rules for safety?
you have to park those things somewhere
and, of course majority of the bike use is by individual bikers. It was kind of boring to photograph them, but if you want to get a bike, here is a little street shop to get one, along with some snacks
Chinese man like to stay cool in the summer and here how they do it. Most of them. Not women, yeah, that is unfortunate.
Bikes get parked everywhere, sidewalks…
fences (smart choice as you can lock to it)
specially designed bike stalls
but don’t leave it unattended for too long… they might start loosing some parts
so it is really smart to park your bike at the paid parking lot with an attendant, it only cost a few cents per day but ensures safety of your equipment
and finally for this post, the motorbikes are getting really popular, you can see a lot of them these days as well
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WangFuJing Painter
WangFuJing is one of the premium shopping streets in Beijing. It is pedestrian friendly, has many nice shops and restaurants. On our first day in Beijing we stopped there for dinner at Dunn Lai Shun Muslim Restaurant (picture is coming in one of the future posts). After dinner I was waiting for my wife and daughter on the street, watching people and taking some photos. This character was not far from me talking to some folks, he was very animated and I thought he would make an interesting memory about this evening and this street, so here you go. This guy is some type of painter. Couple nights later we were back on this street and I saw him again, walking with his canvas.
