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the day i didn’t wish for snow…

I sometimes get comments about how much fun and how easy our travels appear – but be relieved: everyone has not-so-great days. …

Here’s a perfect day trip from Beijing to a mountain destination where the clear air is almost guaranteed – as is good …

I had a lot of people asking about the pollution over the weekend – sadly Beijing and many Eastern and Northern parts …

And here’s some more pretty pictures from Forbidden City – a continuation for my previous post {see here pt1}. Gates, rooftop details, …

Forbidden city (Gu Gong in Chinese, which means Former Palace) and the Tian’anmen square in front of it probably are the second …

I have complained before about the bad air of Beijing, but never has it been this bad: this evening the level hit …

One of those funny Chinglish days – where one letter makes a difference. Normally we are on a lookout for falling rocks, …

..Yes, the snow! I’ve been before in places colder than this (the lowest in Beijing I’ve seen by far has been -19c/-2F) …

One September morning we decided to escape the grey and polluted city and picked Miao Feng Shan mountain as our destination. It …

Snow has that magical effect – those first flakes falling down, the soft white quilt covering the ground and the trees… We’ve …