Some random images from the Summer Palace:

Here are some images from Beijing Botanical garden.

Saturday and Sunday was all about walking around in the city, watching Inter-Lazio (1-2) at the Bird's Nest olympic arena, and climbing the great wall (Jianshanling to Simatai). Here are some great photos:

Yesterday me and Lotta got hold of tickets the game between Milan and Lazio in Bird's Nest tomorrow! I'd never thought I'd get a ticket for that game, but now I get to see two great teams playing and I get to see the olympic arena :) (cost: 380 yuans per person).

Below some random images:
Lotta studying Beijing map in taxi, Outlet not so far from the hotel (expensive, but quality goods), A glass building, Sign of prohibited items in Beijing subway entrance, Subway train location map, Hotel lobby.

I söndags blev det hot pot (se bilden) på Ding Ding Xiang vilket var mycket lyckat och gott och i måndags besökte vi (jag och Lotta) Purple Haze. Maten på Purple Haze var väl inte fullt så god, men miljön var rätt härlig i alla fall. Men hmm... var är alla kineser? Knappt en enda kines på restaurangerna någon av dagarna. Sen idag, tisdag var vi på en outlet där priserna i princip var som svenska priser, men utbudet av åtminstone skor och kläder var helt enormt. Sen har vi ev tänkt att kolla in en akrobat-show under veckan, men då måste vi nog bestämma oss nån dag innan.

Today I spent quite a lot of money, but I also got many things for the money. Or what do you say about a tailor made suit, three tailor made shirts, three t-shirts, ten underpants (all from Yashow Market), six pair of good-looking socks, three good quality shirts (all from Silk Market), and hiking/jogging shoes (only 200 yuan at a shopping center very near the hotel) for 2215 yuan (2650 SEK)? It might sound like a great deal of money, but in Sweden you would at least have to pay the double price! Ok, it is a market and the quality is a bit unsure - but the shirts and the underwear seems to be of fairly high quality and having a tailor-made suit in Sweden would probably cost A LOT more than here (850 yuan). Also the shoes seem really good!

Eva at work has found an alternative laundry place which is about half the price of the hotel. Someone from the laundry firm will come and collect our laundry Saturday morning and hand it back the next day. Still it is cheaper to buy new socks than to hand them in for laundry only one time...

Under the 13th of July I have added a link to a GPS track. If you like it I can put up more tracks.

I really miss the body pump classes back home in Sweden. Here I have to find some discipline to go to the gym. But yesterday evening I went to play badminton with Sean at work. It was pretty hot in the arena and they were all very good at badminton :)  So I got some good excercise and some blisters...