First a little mythbusting – you can’t actually see the Great Wall from space. Second – if you have the chance to visit Beijing, you might want to see both the old and new wall. The contrast: A section of the Great Wall – reconstructed for tourists, at Badaling, June 2006 A section of the [...]
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About Lijiang all rolled into one: Old Town Lijiang, Yunnan, China 2006 Brilliant blue sky Streams of clear, clean water running all through the old town Lovely architecture A feeling of being back in time Granted, Lijiang’s old town is given over entirely to tourism and the streets are lined with souvenir shops. I have [...]
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Yumbu Lhakang, Tibet 2007 We visited Tibet for four (not nearly long enough) days in February 2007. It just happened to be both Chinese New Year and Tibetan New Year and the monasteries and temples were full of pilgrims. The winter season is blissfully light on tourists and yes, it is cold, but look at [...]
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Not your typical travel photo… Visiting Kuwait’s Fairgrounds, 1992 After the Gulf War ended, Kuwait was left with a huge amount of discarded Iraqi weaponry. Much of it was left in the desert for later recovery. Some was moved to the Kuwaiti Fairgrounds where it was on display to the public. My guess is that [...]
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I never thought Hong Kong would look like this! I imagined skyscrapers and alleyways and people everywhere. This is Lamma Island – a little bit of heaven on the edge of a continent. Lamma Island’s lovely coastline Tomorrow is Qing Ming – Tomb Sweeping Day. In China and Hong Kong, the day is spent caring [...]
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It really feels like a Friday today. If I were 3 feet tall and male you could call me Grumpy. This is probably the last Photo Friday that I am going to focus on Spain for a while. I’m getting too homesick! Here is a looong photo essay. (I think next week I will also [...]
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I just can’t get enough of Spain, so I am featuring it again this week on Photo Friday! There were also way too many photos to choose just one, so you get a little photo essay. Roman Theater circa 18 BC They say the sun never set on the Roman empire and one could certainly [...]
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Rainy Day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2006 Travel is not always sublime! Even in paradise there are grumpy, gray days. Like this one in Kuala Lumpur when the skies suddenly opened and poured buckets down on us. Of course, I was ill prepared, wearing inappropriate footwear. Everyone in KL wears plastic flip-flops and now I [...]
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The Northern Coast, near Cabo Peñas, Spain I’m not having the best day today, (Nothing major, just didn’t sleep well last night and I’m ready for the weekend.), so I thought I would post a picture of my favorite travel destination and the place I would love to be right now. Continuing the theme from [...]
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Back in August, the DH and I joined a group of our friends in a canoe trip down the Sella (Say-ya) River, in Eastern Asturias, Northern Spain. The Sella River is very scenic and fairly gentle, so the descent in canoe has become very popular. There is even an annual race, the International Descent of [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window. And, yes, I do wear my santa hat year-round. ;)
