For this city walk post, I’ll go back to two of my favourite spots in Beijing. Qianmen is one of the last historic places in the city’s core protected from gentrification. The government has rebuilt most of the buildings but […]
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In this short post, I’ll share a few images from the Langyuan Station and Qianmen Hutongs areas of Beijing. I’ve written about Qianmen before so I won’t repeat the same information. You can read about the area at this link.
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This is a quick post to share a few images from the 798 Art District in Beijing in the middle of our bone-chilling cold winter. Temperatures in Beijing this year have been much cooler than the past decade, with several
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This is a continuation of the series I recently posted of cycling around Beijing during the recent pandemic related restrictions. These restrictions provided a unique opportunity to explore this great city from a new perspective. Hope you enjoy the images
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Work has been super busy so I’ve been remiss in updating this website. Some of the images below are from a few months ago when Beijing was in a semi-locked down state during the pandemic outbreak. At that time, my
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For the past three years, I’ve tried to capture some of Beijing’s beautiful autumn colours, but failed each time. You can see some of the failed attempts here and here. Last year’s experience was especially painful because our excitement kept
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Today’s post will be about a wonderful boutique hotel that we stayed at on our recent trip to Mutianyu’s section of the Great Wall of China. I don’t usually dedicate a post to a hotel, but I’m doing it in
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Mutianyu is about a two hour drive from Beijing and includes one of the most famous sections of the Great Wall. When I last visited, there was a bit of a carnival environment around the entrance with sketchy shops selling
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Continuing the series on Beijing neighbourhoods started with the Hutongs at Beilu Guxiang and the first foray into the vast Qianmen area, today I’d like to take you back to the Qianmen area with a focus on regular day to day
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Continuing the series on Beijing neighbourhoods started with the Hutongs at Beilu Guxiang post, today I’d like to share some images taken over two trips to the Qianmen area of central Beijing. This neighbourhood has some of the most expensive
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Having lived in Beijing for eight years now, I’ve started to take things for granted. There are amazing neighbourhoods to explore in this 3,000 year old city, but the familiarity creates indifference. For the next few months, a friend and
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With the weather warming up, I thought it was time to go out for a long walk. A favourite spot is to walk along the Tonghui River in downtown Beijing. I rarely use the Leica M10 these days, so I
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