beijing

I went for another ride today, this time to the Olympic village.

Cleaning up the streets

Clean Rivers, Clean Olympics!

Olympic volunteer booths, help when you need it.

Ditan park is getting ready for the Olympics

Some people think that Beijing does not have the best tea in China. What they lack in quality is made up in sheer quantity. Diana and I recently took a trip out to "Tea City" in Beijing, holy moly, that's about all I can say.

A while back Diana and I went for lunch at a local Beijing snack cafeteria. I took my camera along ;)

I definitely filled up a karma quota this evening!

Diana and I went to the central train station to buy tickets for Hong Kong. Spring festival is coming up and we're heading to 中山 (ZhongShan) to spend it with her parents. Before we reach her parents we're heading a few hours south to catch out the sites in Hong Kong and to cross a border ;) . I'm going to try to sneak in some surfing too.

Over the past two weeks I have been fighting a cough and, possibly, a cold. Mainly I've been fighting a nagging cough. On Thursday and Friday I was stuck indoors for two main reasons. The first was that I wanted to give my body time to recover. The second was that I was actually fearful of going outside. Yes, fearful.

The 2008 Olympics are in the second of three phases of ticketing. Due to extraordinary demand, and I would say a poorly design ticketing system, they were unable to handle the ticket requests on a first come first serve basis. In order to handle the demand everyone must submit an application. Ticket will then be dispersed via a lottery system.