This I know: 25 kilometers on my bicycle is enough to produce seriously sore legs and buttocks. I first acquired this knowledge last month after riding said bicycle 25 kilometers from downtown Beijing to a botanical garden on the western edge of the city. (It didn’t really look that far on the map, but it [...]
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七九八 The 798 Art District in Beijing Just a few decades ago, this industrial district on the northeast corner of Beijing was home to a high security factory producing “secret” components for the Chinese military. The bauhaus-style complex was designed and built by the East Germans in the 1950s-1960s, in cooperation with the Soviet Union. [...]
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Photo Friday #26 Peasant Lady Sculpture 798 Art District, Beijing, China Looking much like the hundreds of peasant ladies I have seen during my years in China, this peasant lady sits and watches the world passing by. Some might say she watches as the New China passes her by. Found in the 798 Art District [...]
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Or why we never bothered to go in… Giant Spider at the Guggenheim Museum This spider is the sole reason my friend, arachnophobe and Bilbao native Marta, cannot visit the museum. In August we drove from Madrid to Asturias, passing through Guadalajara, Medinacelli, Logroño and the Basque Country. We stopped for a few hours in [...]
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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. ;)
