This river’s walking areas have seen a lovely upgrade since last I lived in Beijing – used to run and walk along this river but it was on the roadway, not these nice riverside paths :-).
Yes, these photos were all taken within ten minutes of each other from the top of the boat, shortly after 11am on the 23rd of January :-). First whirlpool experience in the Arctic Circle!
Today’s one of only two this year when Kirkenes, Amsterdam, Sydney and Nairobi will all get more or less the same 12 hours of day and night each. These last shots taken before we got off the boat on January 26th were taken a week after the sun first popped back over the horizon up here…and of course, for a couple months on either side of June 21st, it won’t pop below the horizon, giving it 2x as much sunlight as Nairobi (nearly on the equator) will get that day. Happy vernal equinox, fellow northern hemisphere residents :-).
So yes, work took me back recently to Beijing for meetings, and before that to Bangkok for other meetings. While in Thailand I also managed finally to get to Chiang Mai, from which came two recent posts where you’d only know what they are if you’re in “full view” mode which shows you the location tags. (Hint: full view will have blue background and white type, and the tags are at the very bottom in small type. Your browser likely allows you to zoom, if you’re on a computer.) This photo above is one of precisely and only two photos I managed to catch during my full and busy week in Beijing. From Chiang Mai – about which I’ve been hearing great things since a friend studied there in the early 1980s – you’ll see plenty more, nearly all from the same temple complex in the center.
(so much world, so little time....) 