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Happy Chinese New Year!
Last week Beijing welcomed the Year of the Monkey with a week-long holiday and incredibly loud fireworks.
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3DPRK by Matjaž Tančič x Koryo Studio
3D picture exhibition shot by Matjaž Tančič in North Korea. You get 3D glasses at the entrance (the blue & red glassed kind) to get the full three-dimensional effect.
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Our Local Fruit & Vegetable Market
Yesterday we went looking for someone to fix Jelte’s bike and found a vegetable market instead. Right next to our compound. Been living here for three month and never noticed it. Glad we know now!
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Bicycle Ride through Beijing’s Hutongs
Bicycle Ride though Beijing’s Huadeng Hutong [花梗胡同] and Daxing Hutong [大兴胡同] featuring the Flying Pideon & Peacock. Bought the rides second-hand from a fairly unenthusiastic guy near Beixinqiao Subway Station, had them fixed up properly at a street stand bicycle doctor, then took them out for their first spin. Fahrradfahrt durch Pekings Huadeng Hutong [花梗胡同]…
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Beijing 798 Art Zone – Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism
Thanks to our former study buddy and good friend Maike, who visited us last weekend, after almost two month in China we finally discovered Beijing’s 798 Art District! Here are some pictures of one of the exhibitions.
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First Snow in Beijing – Erster Schnee in Peking
It was getting really cold over the last couple of days, until we woke up this morning to enjoy our first snow in Beijing! In the letzten Tagen ist das Wetter immer kälter geworden, bis wird dann heute morgen aufwachten und die ersten Schneeflocken diesen Winters sehen konnten.
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Smart Beijing
Master downtown traffic in style.
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Today at the Dentist… – Heute beim Zahnarzt…
Oral hygiene 2.0 – Mundhygiene 2.0 What you don’t see in the picture is the four lane city highway right behind us and the perfectly ordinary pedestrian walkway right in front of the dentist’s window. Was man auf dem Bild nicht sehen kann ist die vierspurige Stadtautobahn direkt hinter uns und der nichts ahnen lassende…
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The art of making crispy pastry rolls / Chinesische Gebäckröllchen
Long time no read, so here’s a quick update on what we discovered this weekend! Found this lady making her own crispy pastry rolls on our way to IKEA [yes, they have two IKEAs in BJ]. The dough tasted like sweet vanilla laced with black sesame, which actually tasted really delicious! A big bag of…
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PM 2.5 and the foggy version of Beijing – Peking und ‘Der Nebel’
So today the air quality really sucked. It went downhill after China National Day on Oct 1st, but today we seemed to have reached a new low (or high, depending on how you measure it…): The Air Quality Index [AQI] of the U.S. Ambassy rated PM 2.5 levels as hazardous and advised citizens to don…