Ni hao!How about the beer distribution in Beijing on bicykles with three wheels, or the sales of easy street food also on bicykles with three wheels and with an oil can as the barbecue cooking place between the two back wheels, or how girls sit riding back of a bicykle! What ever you do don´t park your car on the street! It will be very exspensive and your car is gone when you come back for it. The police takes away your car very fast! So when you walk on the pavement you should better watch out because the cars
drive on them to park! Don´t relax or you will be runned over! Don´t throw you cigarett end in the street or pavement. It will cost you 50 yuan in legal fee from the police! These are some of the things you will notice during your visit here. It is better to know them before you go here! In another earlier blog post have already told you about the toilets! Always be prepared for these things. Don´t forget to bring your own toilet paper and so on. Another thing is that I was told before going to Beijing was that the taxi drivers can fool you on the money by putting on the night fares as you don´t understand the chinese sign for night. Maybe they do this, but it´s no money! If I were you I would rather know the shortest way to your destination, because they try to take you there the longer way! 
I have seen them doing this also with a chinese person in the taxi, though without a major success! Some people they would better not try this thing with! Like Liping! And I tell you again that the chinese people in Beijing have a very hot temperament, goes away and all is forgotten very quickly, and are very nice and friendly to all, specially the foreign guests in their city! I almost get the same feeling as being visiting southern Europe, and specially Rhodes in Greece! Everything here seems and works the same way. Don´t get fooled by the fact that this country is a communist state, as it is much harder in the USA! In this country half of the enterpises are privately owned, and you are confronted all over with the capitalistic way of living and thinking! A word of warning here though. This country is growing right now to become a capitalistic society within the communistic system. Don´t criticise the chinese government, only do as they tell you to do. And you will feel like at home! You´d better let the chinese develope their own country in their own special way! They do it in a very unique way! Zai jian!
Peter
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