17 flavors of Diesel fumes
Apr 17, 2007 · 11:18 PM · permalink
Biking through the streets of Beijing offers a myriad of sights… and industrial smells. It ranges from light sweet crude to Kuwaiti sensimilia to high-sulphur coal w/ a hint of turpentine… The more exotic, the more we cracked up at the insanity of it all.
Beijing is a spectrum of activities. Bikes carrying buckets of meat and buckets of tar to baby bakchoy.
We’ve made it out on the bike everyday we’ve been here. Biked at least 10 miles yesterday through heavy rush-hour bike traffic to the Pearl Market (which has everything in the World for 2 dollars). Trying to head out later today to the Lotus Market which is a little closer.
Heaviest bike traffic I’ve ever been in… even more than Amsterdam. We just have jumped in and followed the crowds…
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