What I like about Beijing
Saturday, July 21st, 2007Beijing was not a city that I liked immediately. It’s crowded. It’s polluted. It’s hot and humid. It seems everything is under construction in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics. To be fair, almost anything would have been a let down after the countryside of Mongolia, though. It took a day on a bike and a few more days wandering around the hutongs (alleys) to endear me to this city, but now I’m a Beijing fan. [read on]