The scallions are piled high on Andingmen Nei Dajie. That’s how you know it’s fall — that, and the shortening days, where the sunlight comes in at a 20 degree angle earlier in the afternoon than it ought to. By 4:00 the buildings burn orange in it.
Beijing is not what you’d call a user-friendly city. [...]
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there and back again (1)
I think it was Douglas Adams who said that there’s no language on Earth with the expression “as beautiful as an airport.”
Not all airports are bad, I guess. Belfast Airport used to have a nice little breakfast place. Vancouver Airport seemed OK the one time I was there. Heathrow is awful and soul-crushing, but [...]