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Donghuamen Night Market
Delicacies @ Donghuamen Night Market. Initially we went to buy a cell phone card at China Unicom, then walked right into the apm shopping Mall, before discovering fancy foods at the night market. Delikatessen auf dem Donghuamen Nachtmarkt. Zunächst wollten wir nur eine Telefonkarte bei China Unicom kaufen, doch dann fanden wir uns unerwarteterweise im…
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Guomao and the CCTV Tower
Beijing has a top-notch subway system. You can get everywhere real quick, trains arrive within minutes of each other, and everything is very clean and state of the art. Going home we often take the subway, but in general we prefer to walk. Having slept off the last remnants of our jet lag we got…
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Around the Forbidden City
A longer walk took us to the Forbidden City today. Shuaige Jelte was taken as a photo prop, we ate glazed Hawthorn on a stick, were tempted to buy a baby kitty multiple times, before our jetlag caught up with us and we took the Metro home. Ein längerer Stadtspaziergang führte uns heute vormittag zur…
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Discover the #RITNB Youtube Channel
Our Youtube Channel Riceisthenewbread now features its first video. Check it out! Unser Youtube Kanal Riceisthenewbread zeigt jetzt sein erstes Kurzvideo. Schaut einfach mal rein! Auf der Startseite links die drei horizontalen Linien anklicken (Social Menu), ganz nach unten scrollen, und zwischen Tumblr, Twitter und Instagram wählen.
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Tipp: Easier Navigation and full-sized Pictures
I noticed that the pics in my posts here on WP are uploaded somewhat resized in a smaller version. For the original-sized version use the social menue (start page -> menu bar on the left side -> scroll down to the very end) and hit Tumblr. There you can enjoy the pics in their full…
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First Things First
Arrived in BJ today at 1pm local time, caught a cab downtown, dropped off our luggage at the Hutong and went in search of the first (and yummiest) Uighur restaurant we could find. Although five years passed since we last been here, its like we never left! Home away from home!
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Getting used to the food!
T-12 Days!
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The Life of Others
Within five weeks we sold all of our belongings that we didn’t deem essential for our new life chapter in Beijing and packed up what we wanted to bring with us.