Originally Posted by worker4youth
Props to you for commuting in probably the worst air quality in the world. Can't even see any blue in that sky...
What is this colour "blue" of which you speak?
Originally Posted by gqsmoothie
Doesn't seem like many (any) cyclists wear helmets in Beijing.
As genec pointed out, there are very, very few helmets here. I think it's a holdover from when everyone was riding together at about 10km/h, with no cars to watch out for.
Originally Posted by capejohn
Great stuff. How do they react to your saying eh, at the end of the sentences? Eh?
Lots of Norwegians here in the little fishing village that I reside. Norwegians with a bad Boston accent.
The sound "eh" can be used in Chinese too, though not quite in the same way. But really I've lived outside of Canada for a large chunk of my life, and never picked up on the Canadian usage that much in the first place, eh?
Originally Posted by fsor
Great photos! The streets look really clean.....I like the mural around the secondary school. Thanks for the photos
Thanks and you're welcome. The mural is much bigger than what I could fit in that photo, but I was out of space on my camera by that time. It's pretty much what you would expect -- Study hard, promote education, work together, that sort of thing.
Originally Posted by buzzman
great pictures! terrific, informative thread. thanks a ton. xie xie.
Bu keqi!