If you are considering a trip to Beijing after being inspired by the Beijing Olympics’ Opening Ceremony (or my own Cool Travel Guide to Beijing), then check out these insider guides to the city:* The Beijinger is an excellent Beijing-based, English-language magazine and website with a weekly what’s on guide including listings for every kind … Read more about Beijing insider guides
By Terence Carter*When we were last in Beijing a few summers ago and were visiting the star sights, including the Great Wall of China, the air was filled with a thick grey-brown smog, making decent photos impossible. But we still had a great time. In Italy recently, it also seemed like every significant sight in … Read more about Point and shoot: is a spoiled photo opportunity a spoiled vacation?
Mesmerized, I marveled at the jaw-dropping spectacle of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, enjoying it more than any other opening ceremony I’ve watched before. Surely this feast for the imagination was the most arresting, audacious and innovative yet? With its epic scope, theatrical scale, dreamy atmosphere, and experimental film-like form more … Read more about Beijing’s 2008 Olympics and its cinematic Opening Ceremony: spectacle and its power to inspire
Just in case you’re now wishing you were at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games after seeing the spectacular Opening Ceremony, and are inspired to book a flight… check out my Cool Travel Guide to Beijing. By no means exhaustive, it’s simply a list of favorite things to do in the smoggy city. What to do The … Read more about The Cool Travel Guide to Beijing
Beijing. My picture of the Pekingese pup perched on a shelf (as if for sale) outside a hole in the wall store in a backstreet of a Beijing hutong reminds me of our last summer there. A monsoon of memories, provoked by potent images, comes to mind – don’t you love the way our memories … Read more about Summer holidays: Beijing