Ni hao!
Coming home late at night from a long days sightseeing in Beijing, this is what we see walking home from the Dongzhimen Subway Station.There is always a very special feeling about coming home after a hard days work! And going sightseeing and shopping all day is the same kind of feeling. It means now you can relax! We come up on the long stairs from the Dongzhimen Subway Station, and are now on the Dongzhimen Wai Dajie side of the 2nd Ring Road. First we stop directly at the stairs ending part, because here they
sell souvernirs and vegetables. We buy some vegetables for eating later at home. I wanted to find somewhere to buy some chinese CDs, so we entered the building you see at the left of the first picture. It is the Oriental Kenzo Building. It is a residential building with a shopping center at the lower floors. It is really super stores here. They have many different stores, but they are looking very expensive too! So we leave after a while, and walk into a side street looing for my CDs! We ask some girls if they know where we can find a CD shop. We find some in the area, but when entering I feel I do not know enough about he chinese artists to be able to buy the right CDs! The price is very low by a westerners eye though! We wait, we do not buy today. The search will go on later during our stay here, and 
I can tell you that the end of the story was that I bought 6 double CDs with the different top chinese artists. Both male and female ones! And by the way one of them is Wei Wei, who has sold over 200 million CDs in the world. Mostly though in China. She lives in Sweden since 9 years ago. Now she lives in Stockholm, my home town. After this we walk across the 2nd Ring Road to the Dongzhimen Nei Dajie, the restaurant street! Also the southern border of the Minan Residential Complex, Minan Xiao Qu, where we live. Here in the corner of this street and our home street, Dong Jang Wei Jie, we can buy some fruit to eat at home. More street salesmen! This area was earlier called Dong Yang 
Wei Hutong, but now it is named after it´s northern border Minan Jie! The western border is Dongzhimen Beizhong Jie with my local favourite restaurant next to the Nan Guan Park. I will tell you about this street now. It begins from Zhenxian Hutong in the west and ends at Dongzhimen Nei Dajie in the south. It´s about 520 meters long and 22 meters wide. It was called Yangweiba Hutong in the early Republic of China and Dongyangwei Hutong in 1947, and remained so after 1949. The west part of the alley was named Dongyangwei Hutong in 1956, and renamed Dongzhimen Beizhong Jie in 1979. In the northern tip of the street, there was the mansions of the Prince Lu and the 
Prince Yunqi, which became the Russian Orthodox Eastern Church and the General Church of the Orthodox Eastern. It became the former Soviet Embassy after 1949. Today north of the northern border, Minan Jie, is the largest embassy area of one country in Beijing. The Russian Embassy is our neighbour here! Back to the eastern border. It is the Dong Yang Wei Jie, where our home and apartment is situated at number 1! The last picture shows you ou home street seen from the south. You can not see our house from here, but you can see directly on the left in the middle of that house is the place where we cut our hairs. And right to the left after this house is the local street where we go and buy our food and Tsingtao beers! Outside this to the east are some tall buildings and the 2nd Ring Road.
Zai jian!
Peter
Coming home late at night from a long days sightseeing in Beijing, this is what we see walking home from the Dongzhimen Subway Station.There is always a very special feeling about coming home after a hard days work! And going sightseeing and shopping all day is the same kind of feeling. It means now you can relax! We come up on the long stairs from the Dongzhimen Subway Station, and are now on the Dongzhimen Wai Dajie side of the 2nd Ring Road. First we stop directly at the stairs ending part, because here they
sell souvernirs and vegetables. We buy some vegetables for eating later at home. I wanted to find somewhere to buy some chinese CDs, so we entered the building you see at the left of the first picture. It is the Oriental Kenzo Building. It is a residential building with a shopping center at the lower floors. It is really super stores here. They have many different stores, but they are looking very expensive too! So we leave after a while, and walk into a side street looing for my CDs! We ask some girls if they know where we can find a CD shop. We find some in the area, but when entering I feel I do not know enough about he chinese artists to be able to buy the right CDs! The price is very low by a westerners eye though! We wait, we do not buy today. The search will go on later during our stay here, and 
I can tell you that the end of the story was that I bought 6 double CDs with the different top chinese artists. Both male and female ones! And by the way one of them is Wei Wei, who has sold over 200 million CDs in the world. Mostly though in China. She lives in Sweden since 9 years ago. Now she lives in Stockholm, my home town. After this we walk across the 2nd Ring Road to the Dongzhimen Nei Dajie, the restaurant street! Also the southern border of the Minan Residential Complex, Minan Xiao Qu, where we live. Here in the corner of this street and our home street, Dong Jang Wei Jie, we can buy some fruit to eat at home. More street salesmen! This area was earlier called Dong Yang 
Wei Hutong, but now it is named after it´s northern border Minan Jie! The western border is Dongzhimen Beizhong Jie with my local favourite restaurant next to the Nan Guan Park. I will tell you about this street now. It begins from Zhenxian Hutong in the west and ends at Dongzhimen Nei Dajie in the south. It´s about 520 meters long and 22 meters wide. It was called Yangweiba Hutong in the early Republic of China and Dongyangwei Hutong in 1947, and remained so after 1949. The west part of the alley was named Dongyangwei Hutong in 1956, and renamed Dongzhimen Beizhong Jie in 1979. In the northern tip of the street, there was the mansions of the Prince Lu and the 
Prince Yunqi, which became the Russian Orthodox Eastern Church and the General Church of the Orthodox Eastern. It became the former Soviet Embassy after 1949. Today north of the northern border, Minan Jie, is the largest embassy area of one country in Beijing. The Russian Embassy is our neighbour here! Back to the eastern border. It is the Dong Yang Wei Jie, where our home and apartment is situated at number 1! The last picture shows you ou home street seen from the south. You can not see our house from here, but you can see directly on the left in the middle of that house is the place where we cut our hairs. And right to the left after this house is the local street where we go and buy our food and Tsingtao beers! Outside this to the east are some tall buildings and the 2nd Ring Road. Zai jian!
Peter
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