Well, we finally made it to China (safely) again. Always a miracle. When we were in the Beijing airport I was hoping that the air quality was better than on previous trips becauase I couldn't smell as much coal burning as previously, but it turned out I was mistaken.
We had a good dinner at the Paulaner restaurant in the Kempinski hotel. Traffic was fairly calm and we didn't almost die in any taxi rides. I wanted to go for a walk but the air was too thick. It, however, had to be less polluted than the air in the restuarant which was absolutely blue with cigarette smoke. Those clothes got put into a rubber bag and will go to the laundry as soon as I get to Luoyang.
Here's a shot of the sun valiently trying to rise through the smog in Beijing. This was taken from my hotel room in the Kempinski Hotel around 7:00 am.
At 13:00 we flew to Luoyang, China. Here I was worried about the air quality. As our airplane descended you couldn't see the ground until we we almost touched down.
You can almost taste the air just looking at the photo.
Deplaning in Luoyang.
We had a good dinner at the Paulaner restaurant in the Kempinski hotel. Traffic was fairly calm and we didn't almost die in any taxi rides. I wanted to go for a walk but the air was too thick. It, however, had to be less polluted than the air in the restuarant which was absolutely blue with cigarette smoke. Those clothes got put into a rubber bag and will go to the laundry as soon as I get to Luoyang.
Here's a shot of the sun valiently trying to rise through the smog in Beijing. This was taken from my hotel room in the Kempinski Hotel around 7:00 am.
At 13:00 we flew to Luoyang, China. Here I was worried about the air quality. As our airplane descended you couldn't see the ground until we we almost touched down.
You can almost taste the air just looking at the photo.
Deplaning in Luoyang.
We had a bit of fun at the luggage carosel in Luoyang. The carosel is very small and Gord's baggage is very large. Gord's bag came hurtling down the inclined conveyor and got stuck at the transition to the carosel. Gord promptly left the area until three or four small guys managed to unwedge his bag as more and more bags piled up behind it.Writing this post has taken forever. The Internet in my room is exceedingly slow and crashes every few minutes. I haven't been able to check my e-mail here in Luoyang yet. Ian says his Internet is working fine, so maybe mine will be better later today.
Well, I'm off to the first meeting after three days of travel. Last night at dinner Luoyang said they thought the meeting "might only take one day". When Gord heard that his eyeballs almost popped out.
Later,
Steven
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