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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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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…
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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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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!