Beijing

Hi everyone, we have not been able to post anything on our blog lately because Blogspot and also facebook is banned by the Chinese government.

Here in Beijing we rented a room at a Hutong Guest house, a typical old Chinese house with a court yard in the middle and small houses around.  The Guest house had only 6 rooms and Tiril and Lars played in the yard with the house cat. There was only a little bit snow left but it was enough for Tiril and Lars to have a great time.  They are not spoiled with to much snow!!!!!

Here we stocked up on more winter clothes and also we got our 15 kg box, that was send from Singapore to a former college of Ove who now lives in Beijing.  After all the different markets we have been to Tiril and Lars are now getting good at barging, when they play we hear: “ 1 for 3 dollar, 2 for 5 dollar, what color you want…. we have many things …any thing you want…what you want….”

One day we took a tour and saw the great wall and Ming's tomb.   The great wall was a cold experience, but very impressive. We are not so impressed by the taxi drivers here in Beijing, most of the time they don’t want to pick us up or the take us to the wrong place. We have also seen a acrobatic show, very good……..

The last night in Beijing we where treated to Pizza by some friends of Ove that he worked with in Singapore. I nice ending to a interesting time in Beijing.

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