Entries by AlanPaul

Beijing hutong, New Year’s Eve Morning

I stayed in the lovely courtyard 7 hotel my last night on this recent trip to Beijing and on my way out in the morning — which was CNY eve — I came across this nice old guy putting up his annual red banners. for some reason, he was interested in my opinion so I […]

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Old School corn Milling

as noted earlier, I spent a couple of days up at the Pavilion House run by the Schoolhouse at Mutianyu. It was a great palace to write, think, get my head together. Every day I ate two of three delicious egg pancakes, gladly overpaying the nice local women who cooked them up for me. Onn […]

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Chinese New Years dumplings video

I took a couple of short videos on my recent trip to beijing and will post them as I get them up. This was a lot of fun and the jiao zi were delicious. Humiliating to have my Pittsburgh-accented Chinese captured, but whatever. It is traditional to eat jiaozi or dumplings on Chinese New Year’s […]

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Some photos

Let's see if I can get some Winter Wall photos up here. I had them attached with the last posts but they did not seem to take. We'll try this one more time and if it does not work out, I will add them when I get home on Weds. or Thursday.

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Some village scenes

These are just some snapshots I took around the village where I am staying. The woman cooking the crepe thing is making the egg pancakes I have been living on, eating a couple a day. I love them. After two days I am already getting a local’s discount. I’ll be back for breakfast. The walkway shows […]

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Another day, another winter Wall hike

IMG_0790     Today was crisp and sunny and I had a very productive day, waking up and writing from about 7-12, then taking a great wall hike for a few hours and plugging away a bunch more hours into the evening, with a break for a lovely dinner with Jim Spear. In all the […]

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Finally made it onto the Wall in the snow

  One of my very few regrets about our time in China was that I never made it onto the Great Wall in the snow. There was  march snowfall my last spring there and I thought about clearing my schedule andbarreling up but I didn’t do it and figured that I would have another year […]

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