Some of the sights we passed, snapped quickly and through a bus windowpane; hence, a bit blurry. And naturally, these pics hardly do justice to what we saw, what one can see while passing through Beijing. It is a such a vast onion-skinned world unto itself, a Gormenghastian city with dramatically variegated subcultures, ethnic sectors, historic ringed layers, bleak and brobdignagian Maoist block-bulges, gleaming outcroppings of Olympian construction and hypercommercial outgrowths, plus labyrinthine ingrowths, inward-turned island kingdoms and imperial parklands and cities within the City ...
First pic is for Sheila: This is the Art Gallery of Beijing, and we do not have time to visit it, sadly. Next baby.
Final pic is one of the brief flyby glimpses we got of the Forbidden City ... Note the ice-covered moat. It seems to go on forever!
Ciao from a trio of State Guests.
2 comments:
Forbidden city! I googled it of course, 9999 rooms for Maeve to look gorgeous in! (and pat and kath too) - the last bit of sightseeing on your astonishing trip! have a lovely day today, and take care of yourselves, cannot wait to see the forbidden blog!
love
carmel, dan, and alex xxxxx
wow! i'd love to spend all day in that art gallery - thanks for thinking of it, paddy.
that pic with the little child in red against the green soldiers - that's a neat pic.
looking forward to forbidden pics.
sheila
xoxo
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