Writes of Passage

On Lufthansa, NY-FRA-BJ-NY $1,722.70

• the summary China, Germany
• 5/22 iCloud; food; to Frankfurt
• 5/23 broken down escalator at Ffm airport; Leipziger Str and dinner.
• 5/24 bike washer; birthday party; Bojan; Falungong 法轮功
• 5/25 Sun, Ffm/Fritzlar/Kassel
• 5/26 Kassel/Ffm: walk; toilet; Fulda trail walk; Werra meets Fulda; Hann. Münden; Alte Opera
• 5/27 Tue Ffm/Paris, French Open; Metro Abbesses; Rue de Steinkarque; Basilica of the Sacré Cœur;
• 5/28 Paris/Ffm, macaroons; La Cure Gourmande; arts by Seine; the Louvre and the rat; Benlux; missed the train
• 5/29 Fra-BJ A300; visit Elizabeth; mix writing ; heading to BJ; zhacai 榨菜
• 5/30 BJ; 00Jimmy; Shangri-La Dialogue
• 5/31, local mkt; Wi-Fi router; swimming, badminton, hot pot dinner
• 6/1 lunch w/ mates; xisi 西四
• 6/2, sim card; ZGC 楼; lunch at Beida; tea house + yoga; Ding Tai Feng
• 6/3 BJ airport; 聚德华天 lunch; Diaoyutai 钓鱼台; a hospital; West Station
• 6/4 BJ, Great Wall/Datong, at Deyuelou 得月楼; 积水潭 in Datong; other shops; 3 wheelers
• 6/5 Datong, Yungang Grottoes 云冈石窟
• 6/6 Hohhot
• 6/7 the grassland, the zoo
• 6/8, Hasuhai 哈素海, exam; Baotou 包头; arab place
• 6/9 Zhangjiakou/BJ: the temple ordeal; huma oil; 2 scams in the past
• 6/10 BJ, dinner at Grandma’ House 外婆家 with Yishi; Wangfujing;  ICBC; ad in subway
• 6/11 ZGC, lunch, tea house + yoga; dinner Yunnan 云海肴
• 6/12 BJ/Dalian trip, train; shopping overnight train;
• 6/13 breakfast; beach; Shengya Sea World 大连圣亚海洋世界 … dinner at Tiger; 黑石礁 & Xinghai Sq 星海广场
• 6/14 cherry picking; Binhai Road; Xintiandi; street vendor dinner; 5 RMB withdraw fm ICBC
• 6/15 Dalian/BJ: zoo: monkey; brunch at Tiger; train to BJ
• 6/16 icbc shopping .. toilet salesman
• 6/17 lunch 穆德楼 with Dai and family; Jiujiu angry; jade bracelets; Hongqiao market; dumpling dinner ice wine；with Jiujiu Xi’an 2015?
• 6/18 BJ/Shanghai, , Hongqiao; into hotel; dinner with Qiao at Tang Palace 香港唐宫; family Zhang
• 6/19 subway ticket; two classes at Apple; cold hundun 冷馄饨
• 6/20 Suzhou, lotus pond, dinner 成隆行; 许留山
• 6/21, Loletta Chu 朱玲玲 lunch at Xin Ji Shi 新吉士 dinner at Shao
• 6/22 Shanghai/BJ: Hangzhou; flight delay; coup? the flight attendant
• 6/23 BJ Caibai & taxi in BJ; bus 109, the area, Da Dong;
• 6/24 BJ icbc; Huageng  lunch at 紫光园; Lu Xun school
• 6/25 BJ, going home; light rail to the airport
• 7/24 flight tracking

In Kassel Germany. Front page news on their local newspaper that weekend. A few pix on FB.

How did they get the water up the Herkules Monument back then?

We started at Roter Kater Hotel; some pix also on FB

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We just went there yesterday. SonntagsZeit, titles: Wassermassen als Machtsymbol, which Google translates as “Water masses as a symbol of power”.
Vor 300 Jahren gab es im Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe erstmals Wasserspiele – Heute gehören sie zum Welterbe, which Google says “300 years ago there was in the mountain park William height water first games – Today they belong to the World Heritage”

Zeppelinstr in Kassel is a decent neighborhood. The next door neighbor, as with many Germans, even in Frankfurt, uses the most primitive method to dry their cloth/linens. My mother-in-law used to do this way but her neighbors in New York complained it as an eyesore. On this, I’m sided with the Chinese and Europeans. I love the smell of the sun on my cloth/towels/linens.

A nice touch for the handle of the electrical box:

I like how they do their toilet – the German engineering (do they have to open the tiles/wall to do repair? Or they’re so confident that their products are so excellent that repairment isn’t needed?)