Beijing Alley Dame As per Roy's suggestion (thank you very much) I give you Beijing Alley Dame NOIR! The question is, dare I p...

Dusty old Beijing alley at night from last autumn It's nearly 2 am. I can't sleep. I've been skimming the news. Had some ...

Qihelou Jie street We've been staying in a small hutong house off Qihelou Jie street just across the moat from the Forbidden City...

Hacking the Great Wall. Yesterday we hacked the Great Wall. It began with a very vertical hike on a forested mountain trail out of a...

Swami and Vincent at Art Zone 798 Today, and very soon, we are leaving for the Dirt Market, Beijing's giant, stupendous, "...

Beijing 798 Art Zone We were out all day. I'd like to post better notes about this trip for future reference but every day, by t...

Practicing my Chinese style photo posing technique  I've added a Beijing photo album . The link is in the bar at the top of the...

Went to the Forbidden City today. It used to cost the uninvited their lives. Lucky for us, these days it's only few yen. Some frien...

Sunday is maid's day off in Hong Kong. It's the law. Mostly they hang out all day in the street as they have no where else to go. I...

Yesterday, we went to the island of Tung Ping Chau . I'll post photos when I get a chance. We found old graves in the undergrowth in th...

Hong Kong photos here .  Yesterday we went to Macau so the ones I uploaded this morning are from there. You won't find much of the regu...

Three dragons   Doggie business box Lama Island

It's not as bad as it sounds. The jackhammers are not in my head. They are part of Hong Kong's eternal ambiance along with bamboo s...

Sunny the dog Hong Kong. We're here for 11 days, renting an AirBnB apartment located in the mid-levels which we're shari...