Beijing was Something Else
June 29th 2008 Once again I found myself in China en route to somewhere-else: this time reunited with my daughter Ali, in June 2007. The taxi driver who took me into the city said, "There are five things you must see: Tianamen Square, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, and the Temple of Heavenly Peace."
We met up in a Beijing backpackers’ hostel, which I had found on the web. It was as
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