北京 Beijing

These photos are from my first trip to Beijing (and first ever travel to China) back in 2011. The reason for the trip was accompanying Mr P for work in Hong Kong and since over there we used the opportunity to also visit Beijing as a way of celebrating P´s big three zero Birthday. That we did on top of the Great Wall of China, ALONE, yes we managed to escape the crowd and have a moment of aloneness up there. Priceless. It´s interesting to reminisce on these photos because at that time dumplings, people dancing Waltz in parks and traffic rules being irrelevant were all very unfamiliar things to us and little did we know they would soon be part of our everyday life and China our home ( for soon to be 2 years now!).  It´s also obvious these photos were taken before my blog-self was born and photos taken were mainly for private viewing (and me and P were still early-in-a-relationship-obsessed with each other if you know what I mean), because there is a lot of us in all of them.