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Ni hao! Dongzhimen In Beijing 2010. Zai jian! Peter

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 str...

Ni hao! My local restaurant and late night pub at Dongzhimen Beixiao Dajie is my favorite restaurant to go to. It is my local place to go for beer and talking to people at night. I go here after my busy day touring all over the Beijing sights and walking the Nan Guan Park. After that eating at home or at another local restaurant. The personal is very helpful and service minded. They all speak chinese and some also speak russian. For me as an english speaking person this was a little bit more difficult. As I do only speak very little chinese. However the personel there had four persons working there that could speak some english. I give you some nique pictures of some of them. This place became something like a second home for me at late night. Here I could really sit down and relax after eating and Bejing sightseeing at late night. I used to go there something like 9 o´clock at night, returning home like 11 o´clock. In my regular way of sitting here included listening to the...

Ni hao! A small blog post telling you about The Minan Residential Complex at Dongzhimen Nei Dajie in The Dongzhimen Area, Dongcheng District in Beijing. The southern border of the complex is Dongzhimen Nei Dajie. The northern border is Minan Jie, with Dongzhimen High School and The Russian Embassy on the other side of the road. The eastern border is made up by the 2nd Ring Road. The western border is Dongzhimen Beixiao Dajie, with the Nan Guan Park and Club 19 on the other side of the road. The Chinese name of the complex is Minan Xiaoqu. The area has at least seven guarded entrances. There are many small roads inside and the one our apartment is situated on is Dong Yang Wei Jie. It is very close to the Dongzhimen subway station. Here we go shopping daytime or nighttime! We buy food and Tsingtao beer inside the complex. We buy ready made food, vegetables, bread, noodles, eggs and early in the morning also our ready made breakfast! I go there myself and buy my own Tsingtao be...

Ni hao! This day I will tell you about Dongzhimen 东直门 in the Dongcheng District, Beijing. Dongzhimen is the name of one of the gates in the old city walls of Beijing, it´s now a transportation node in Beijing. The 2nd Ring Road links with Airport Expressway. The Beijing Subway has a station at Dongzhimen, where Lines 2 and 13 connect. Line 13 has its eastern terminus at Dongzhimen. The Dongzhimen bus station is also situated here. For me it feels and seems like the central station in Stockholm! It really is near and we can walk there from home! Talking about minutes! We reach all corners of Beijing very easily from here during our 30 days visit. The subway station is only 8 minutes walk from our own apartment. West of Dongzhimen is Guijie, or "Food vessel street" (Dongzhimen Inner Street), extremely well-known to locals in Beijing as a food street. We go often to the restaurants on this street. There are so many different restaurants there. I think they must be 100 ones! ...

Ni Hao! After 4 years in Sweden Liping is back at her newly bought home at Dong Yang Wei Jie No 1 in Minan Residential Complex at Dongzhimen Nei Dajie, Dongcheng district, in Beijing 北京. When leaving China in 2003 she lived in Maoer Hutong, Dongcheng district, in Beijing. 15th of April 2007 we started our journey very early in the morning on the first train to Stockholm Airport. We stopped at Heathrow Airport in London for 5 hours waiting for our next flight to Beijing with British Airways. We had time to rest, smoke, visit stores and drink a few english beers before going to the gate for the take off to China! For me this was a hugh challenge as I am a smoker. First nearly three hours with no smoking, only "snus" to use. Then comes a new ten hours bringing the same again, but much longer! I thought it would be a very big trouble for me, but it turned out to be no problem at all! Maybe because I had "snus" and was so excited to visit Beijing and China for the firs...