Tianjin. And Suffering. Hummm.
I'm currently working seven days a week (only 23 teaching hours in total, but I have to plan 19 different lessons) which is kinda killing me. The upside to this is the money; with the downside, of course, being that I have absolutely no time to spend it. At least my classes on the weekend - 6 hours in total - will end in a month.
So I have been dreaming of how I will spend those weekends once I get them back. And I've decided that the first thing I'll do is go to Tianjin, the birthplace of jian bing, a delicious crepe you can buy from street food vendors across Beijing and parts of Northern China. I'm addicted to it, as it the girlfriend.... hence our planned pilgrimage. It shouldn't be too arduous, however: apparently there are 76 trains that go run between Beijing and Tianjin daily, and even the slowest of them only take 90 minutes.
Tianjin also has great markets, and a lot of colonial architecture. (Although, like Beijing, most traditional Chinese buildings have been demolished and replaced by skyscrapers.) It sounds interesting.
So I have been dreaming of how I will spend those weekends once I get them back. And I've decided that the first thing I'll do is go to Tianjin, the birthplace of jian bing, a delicious crepe you can buy from street food vendors across Beijing and parts of Northern China. I'm addicted to it, as it the girlfriend.... hence our planned pilgrimage. It shouldn't be too arduous, however: apparently there are 76 trains that go run between Beijing and Tianjin daily, and even the slowest of them only take 90 minutes.
Tianjin also has great markets, and a lot of colonial architecture. (Although, like Beijing, most traditional Chinese buildings have been demolished and replaced by skyscrapers.) It sounds interesting.