11 March, 2011 at 2.39 am

The Old Summer Palace (圆明园)

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Blue Skies

Here’s the long awaited entry.

I have class pretty much every day from 1-4.40pm. In a lot of ways that restricts what I’m able to do during the day. But I decided since I live pretty close by that on Tuesday, 8th March, I was going to get up early and go and check out one of the two Summer Palaces. Also the weather for the past couple of weeks has been absolutely beautiful and I felt like I needed to take advantage of it.

I went to the (new) Summer Palace (颐和园)when I came to Beijing for a language course in the summer of 2007. The weather left a lot to be desired.

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The Summer Palace in July 2007 (apparently I was very shit at editing colours back then)

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