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Nan Guan Park in my heart and in Beijing 北京!

Ni hao!








The Nan Guan Park in Dongzhimen Area, Dongcheng District in Beijing, is my local place to go to in the afternoon. I go here for one or two hours every day to relax and enjoy the beauty of this park! I am amazed by the local activity here in this park. Everybody living around here goes to the park to relax. All have their own reasons for going. It could be a lunch walk or an exercise round, or just to sit down and talk to friends or play checkers together. Some read the newspaper, some play the guitar and sing, some play congas or whatever! The old ones go there and the young ones go there. The Beijing chinese go there, so I don´t see many westerners go there. This park and the area around it is a residential living area for the richer chinese and westerners living nearby. But it is also the area for the average chinese people living in the old hutongs nearby. Entrance to the Nan Guan Park is free, and the service is good. The toilet facilities are very good as they have a handicap toilet with a seat to sit on! To be sure bring your own toiletpaper! This is my great tip for you all staying in Beijing. You always bring your own toiletpaper, as it may be no toiletpaper there when you need it! You always find a store nearby to buy it, if you have not brought it with you from home. Anyway I go here after a long day out after seeing some Beijing sights. Then I want to relax so I go to the Nan Guan Park to just walk around it and sit down on a bench to smoke a cigarett and think about life in general. It gives me a total relaxation for two hours in my afternoon walk around the block! I think about what I have seen around Beijing during the day, and I think about what will I see the next day! I believe that in China everybody find their time to spend a moment of relaxation every day going to the park or doing something else. No one sits indoors doing this. They all go outdoors! So I do the same to find out what I have done today and what I will do tomorrow. I find this is a very great way to spend my evening. After these two hours I go home to eat with my family and then I go to my favorite restaurant for some beers! I am totaly pleased by this way to live. It is really a chinese way to live! I just love it! This is really the way to live and I wish we could do the same in Sweden! Maybe it is just a dream! Maybe!

Zai jian!

Peter
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