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Lingshan Grand BuddhaMore pix on FB in Wuxi

Ordinary folks on their motor bikes in Wuxi. (I’m still on NY time, 12 hours behind)
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太湖 Lake Tai, the Grand Lake in Wuxi.

The tallest building in Wuxi; and the Wuxi hospitality

Maji Mountain area, the Lingshan Grand Buddha is one of the tourist attractions in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The Lingshan Brahma Palace is pretty remarkable (Youtube video).

The experience would have been more enjoyable with lower temperature and lesser crowds

Zhao Puchu (November 5, 1907

秦强 Qin Qiang is my grade school classmate. Although I can’t claim that I’ve seen him in diapers but close. Second day in Beijing, my grade school mates decided to to treat me a home made dumplings. The class monitor 班长 even brought many cookies that dating back to our times, as the luxury, nostalgia aside, they still taste fine. Yan orchestrated the whole thing, from making the fillings, to the dough. Qin is very good at making the wrappers: very fast. In comparison, I looked bit kiddish. So I stayed away.

瀚若居茶院 is in the Old Summer Palace 圆明园, YuanMingYuan, where years ago was burned and looted by the Brits and the Frenchies. That’s the history. Qin leases the place, paying 180,000 RMB annually. I don’t think he and his partners are aiming at make money with the place, rather a place to cultivate friends. We feasted in the courtyard.

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天鹅湖
Chongwen District, 20 Taoyuan Dongli 崇文区桃园东里20号
On the Second Ring, 300 m from the Yongdingmen Bridge 南二环路永定门桥东300米
Near 天坛公园 Temple of Heaven Park
010.8726.2266

Good: movie theater; decent water pressure; 24-hour cycle
Bad: restaurant is dingy and small; the toiletry is limited

Our fifth bathhouse in Beijing, on a rainy night with thunders and lightnings. Two nuts. They are on the service road of the South Second Ring which we’ve passed by it often, so we decided that we had to go.

The fa

A machine to re-charge your cell phone when you’re on the go. Very convenient .. but I don’t know if the machine power charges, like pay, plug in, and voila, the dying gadget is back to life in a second. Or, you wait there for an hour while your toy is getting juiced up?

I found one in USTA in 2014

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7 Tai’an Rd, Heping, 和平区泰安道7号
Tianjin, China

The full name is Kailan Mining Administration Building ^{开滦矿务局大楼}, short for KMA as seen on this brick, which is from Mr. Huang Zhiqiang’s collection.

In 2018, the site is filled with wedding groups.
The Kailuan Group in Tangshan in 2019.

Ctrip 景点介绍

开滦矿务局曾是我国最大的洗精煤生产基地，建于1878年(清光绪四年), 也是我国最早使用机器开采的煤矿. 矿务局大楼建于1919-1921年, 由英国工程师设计并建造, 建筑风格为希腊古典复兴式. 矿务局大楼坐南朝北, 为三层混合结构, 平面呈矩形, 总建筑面积9000多平方米. 外檐立面一、二层, 是用高10米的14根爱奥尼克式巨柱支撑的空廊, 空廊两端略突出, 墙面转角作壁柱装饰. 主房间内设有木制古典壁柱, 并装有古典式壁炉. 门前设有坡道, 台阶两侧筑有水磨石古典式花盆四座. 整个建筑外形庄严肃穆, 内部装修华丽, 现为中共天津市委所在地。

Wiki. The narrow street is quiet but difficult to take a good picture of the entire building.