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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…
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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…