Robs and I have been quite happily walking to and from the office, as much for the exercise as for the experience. Both of us figure that if you’re going to see foreign countries from the back of a taxi, then you’re not really seeing them.This morning it was very foggy (at least by Sydney standards), and the Sinosteel building loomed large:
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and while in Australia the rollout of cable has been forced underground, in Beijing it hasn’t:
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Then we popped out onto Haidian Nanlu, made a detour into the Zhongguancun E-Plaza so Rob could buy a lens cap, had some dinner in our local restaurant (expensive tonight, CNY64 for 3 dishes + 2 beers), and then got back to the hotel.`Technorati`_ tags: topic:{Technorati}[China], topic:{Technorati}[Beijing], topic:{Technorati}[Chinese Academy of Sciences], topic:{Technorati}[Zhongguancun]
