Hey Guys, the last few years were tiring. I know that I never were someone how could do this on a regular basis. There were always bigger gaps before I restart again. But the last years I just stopped. Not just here but on tumblr as well. The only thing I kinda got was Instagram. I just didn’t know what to write and what to do with myself.
I started a lot of stuff and stopped a lot of stuff. I was restless and wanted to do something, write something, draw something, create something but I was to tired to actually do anything. But I was always looking forward to my travels and I always wanted to write about them. I know most likely nobody really cares about this blog. I don’t have much followers or even conversations. But still I want to put something out here.
This time I want to do it differently. I started rewatching Doctor Who and started reading again. I fall in love again with the Big Finish Torchwood series. I just want to talk about the things that I love and yes that are TV-shows, books, radio plays and travels. So I will just start doing it and hopefully this time I find my own passing.
it is one of the biggesst theme right now the virus and the quarantine. So I also talk with a friend of mine about the situation. I told my friend about this block and he told me he wanted to look at it so he get tips what he can look. I always wanted to do Top 10s and things like this. I never got around to do anything about it.
My biggest problem is that I can never decide what to put on the list. Because I love everything so much and who a character in a movie ‘The DVD’s would be jealous.’
But I will try to do my best. So that maybe someone get a little help with what to do with the time and I actually spend time with my favorite thing talking about series.
So I will do a few lists in the next few days. If you want to talk about series or want to do recommendation on your own just talk to me.
i am sorry that this took me so long to write about one of the most amazing meal I had in Beijing – Peking Duck. obviously we had to eat Peking Duck in Peking. There is no way around it. There are many restaurants were you can eat it. We were in one at the top of shopping center. It was a really nice restaurant.
The waiting
The first thing we learnt was that it is not easy to get a table. When we came there you, you take your place in the queue and wait your turn to get your waiting number. Is it your turn you say how many people you are and then you get a number and then you have to wait around until your number is called. Than you get a table. This was a first for me to get a waiting number when I wanted to eat something. I actually don’t remember how long we waited for table but it was definitely more than a half of hour.
The Dishes
We always ordered four different dishes and eat from all of them. Here we ordered a half Peking duck and egg-rice with shred duck, than something like pancakes with a filling we don’t know and something else where we don’t know what it was. All the dishes were very delicious. All the dishes get serve at the same time except for the Peking duck. The Peking duck came an hour after we ordered.
The duck itself got cut direct on our table. You can watch them and you get very little of what the meat. Than came the stuff that I didn’t know about. All stuff you need to eat Peking duck. We got melon, onions and cucumber. Also we sugar, sesame sauce and at last we got really thin flatbread. When I search for it in the web I always find crepes as the flatbread.
The duck in the combination of all these ingredients tasted amazing. Now I really want to eat Peking duck again.
we had to move my side to another server and not everything went well with the getting it back like it was before. I am already working on it. If you find something that doesn’t function or pictures that are gone tell me and i try to change it as fast as i can.
i know this last year was a little rocky for me and that i put the series and this site on the sideline. But i really want to change that again. My life needs a little structure and need to concentrate on many other things but this is also a big part of my life so i will be working on it.
Sooo my plan is that watch Elementary the 5th season and than start the second season of Travlers. There are alot of other series that wait on Netflix to be watched – like Sense8, Stranger Things and so one. I will work on that. Already started watching Elementary and post like always my thoughts on tumblr.
I also plan to restart my rewatch of the classic Doctor Who stories and i also will watch some time this week the christmas special…
For all the other series… i don’t know how and when i will watch them… small steps.
Also i have alot to do for my big vacation. Japan i am coming. I really can’t wait. It is one of my biggest dreams come true. So i am really excited.
I hope we all will have an amazing year. We deserve it.
this year is not mine. I had alot of problems with my workplace and i kinda think that this will continue after i am actually back at work. Right now i am at home for nearly 6 weeks because of a tendonitis and it doesn’t seem to get better. That is also the reason i haven’t written much these days because it is so hard to type with just one hand.
I hope it will be better soon… it already takes long enough.
But now to a the reason i actually write this. Today i found myself very nostalgic after looking the two episodes of Teen Wolf of the last season. Sunday – for me monday – everything will be over. Teen Wolf will be over. All of you know that i loved Teen Wolf and also loved to write here about it and believe me when i say i will write about again and again.
This serie was one of the reason to get this blog. I made this blog to talk about Doctor Who and Teen Wolf. Now it ends and i am happy about it. The people who read my articles know that the last season wasn’t mine. I loved season 5 and the end but i almost disliked everything about season 6.
But there were so much about Teen Wolf i loved and this is the reason that i thought that i will write a little about it. I thought about something like a meme. Right now i am working on it, on what i want to talk about.
There would be the main things like:
favorite Character
favortite relationship and so one
but i wish i would be more creative about it. If someone of you have any ideas or things they wanted to know, write me and i will make them part of it.
Next Monday i will show you what i thought about and try to get you everyday a great answer maybe i even find the time of making a giflet but i don’t promise that. So start the work.
here comes the second point on my list the summer palace. The summer palace is an amazing palace. The most important thing to know for this trip and i would advice to make it a whole day adventure, you need something like sport shoes. You have to talk any stairs and something like climbing… a little bit. Has you can assume now is that the summer palast is built on a hill what makes it so much more beautiful than the other temple.
Few first infos
If you want to have an audio guide you can take one on the start. You have of course chinese as a language and english. This is a big sightseeing so you have a lot of other languages for example german.
Of course you have to pay for the inlet. No matter if you visit the summer palast or the forbidden city it is all the same way. You can only pay for the main attraction here it would the summer palast or for the whole area.
Than you have to different price one for the peak season – that would be summer – and the low season – Winter. So for summer it would be 50 yuan and 40 yuan in winter. (For germans 1 yuan divide through 7 and you got Euros – in this case it would be 7,14 € and winter 5,71 €). So yes buy a ticket for everything.
Summer Palace
The area
The area is really big. With the through ticket there are for 6 buildings you have entred to. Summer Palace, Garden of Virtue and Harmony, Wenchang Gallery, Suzhou Street and Tower of Buddhist Incense. But there is way more to see like the mamor boat and the kunming sea.
Kuniming Sea
The sea is taking the most of the area. It is a beautiful sea and you can get with about over it. The boat is driving you around a area with the look at a few pavilions. Sadly i hadn’t that look because we started at the wrong side and lost to much time at searching for the Tower of Buddhist. But my friend told us that it is absolutely worth it.
The buildings close at 17:00 o’clock. But the area is longer open. So we sit there in the park with the look at the sea. It is quite nice.
Kunming sea
Garden of Virtue and Harmony
We think when we read garden about green grass and flowers, but this is not what you will find here. Actually you will only find a tree in the middle of it and a theater, what is actually the one thing that is to see their. The theater is really beautiful.
Garden of Virtue and Harmony Garden of Virtue and Harmony – Theater
But you can find in the area a garden that is a little bit more like a garden. It is a really beautiful place is a little away from the main road so there are not so much people. So this is a good place to make pause.
Garden
Wenchang Gallery
‘The exhibits include bronzeware, jewelry, chinaware, furniture, paintings, calligraphy, ancient books, enamels, clocks, handicrafts made of gold, silver, bamboo, wood, ivory, horn and lacquer, and other miscellaneous items, representing almost all types of Chinese antiques.’
This is what you can read everywhere and you find there really beautifull things. But if you expect something like the juwelry in London for example you will not find them there. There is alot with jade in many forms. You should totally take a look in there.
Suzhou Street
My friend likes this part the most. This is a street around the moat with alot of little businesses. It is a sweet street. The way is really small but it has a nice atmosphere.
Suzhou Street
Tower of Buddhist
You can see the Tower from any points of the area but we had a few problems finding the right way into the building. It is on mountain/hill and you have to ‘climb’ many stairs to get to it but it is totally worth the sight.
Tower of Buddhist
Tower of Buddhist 2
So this is an amazing place and totally worth visiting. Hope this was hopefull. If you have questions you can always write me.
maybe it is not quite usual to say that the best thing in a town was the dinner but Hot Pot was special.
First of all what is Hot Pot?
Hot Pot has something from Fondue. You have a big pot not with fat but with some sort of sauce. We had to different versions. You can have pot with one ‘sauce’ or with two different ‘sauce’ in one pot. You can choose different ‘sauce’. We had one half of the pot with a mild milk combination and the other was a spicy one. Like the name says this get hot like the fat when you do fondue.
Then you can choose alot of different staff to throw into the pot. Just to say a few things: sweetcorn, tofu, meat (more like bacon), noodles, eggs and leaves.
But that was not all. Then you got a little soup and different sauces that you can mix on your own. Also you got melone to eat until everything is ready.
How to eat
This is really simple. You throw everything in there and wait until it is ready than you fish for it and took in one of the sauces and than you eat it. It is really delicious.
Happy Hot Pot
We were two times at the same restaurant, because it was just so much fun there. Most Hot Pot restaurants let you do all that stuff on your own. At the place we were they make alot for you. The make sauces for you (you can still make your own if you want) and throw the stuff in for you. At first we thought why would him bring us here. But than we had like ten different sauce from them. They came and asked questions. They were all really sweet and really interessted. They have little presents for you and when you sit long enough you get a lot of stuff for trying.
But the most special thing is that you can let them dance for you. It is really sweet and funny to watch them dance gangnam style.
It was one of the nicest evenings in beijing.
the Connicht brought me back to me roots. I bought so much Manga and Anime and i am totally in a phase. So i thought that i make a Connichi special. That means of course that i will write about the anime i bought. That would be Tokyo Ghoul √A, Re:Hamatora, E’S Otherwise, Detektive Conan 19 Movie, Lie in Apirl, and Digimon.
Also i would write about Manga too. One i will tell you about, because it is an amazing story and everyone should read it. So of course i will tell you about it too.
If you want to know more about Manga i bought tell me and i tell you all about it.
So i will post every month a article about Anime and Manga. I hope you will enoy it.
here is my list of things that you should do or see in Beijing. Afterwards i will go into detail of the things in other articles. Soo the hardest part about it is to decided what i like the most. Everything we did was fun… okay except the Temple of Heaven. But i will talk about too. Sooo first things first what was my highlight of the vacation. It is really hard. But i decided for Food. My number one is:
1) Hot Pot
Hot Pot is a special way of eating food. It is little like fondoue. There are a lot restaurants for it. My friend visited two friend restaurants but we just got one of them, but it was amazing. It was super delicious and funny. But it is totally a group activity. You should be at least three persons. More infos will follow here.
2) Summer Palast
Of all the Palast and temple this was the one that i found the most beautifull. Mostly it looks like all the other places but the palast and everything what counts to this whole area is built on a mountain. Which means good shoes and it gives you a totally differnet view of the buildings. More infos will follow here.
3) Sport place at the Uni of my friend
Yeah, this one is weird one. But it was actually the place we spend the most time in Beijing. It is really chilly there. Of course i and my friends too didn’t make sport there. It is like a big stadium and when it gets dark all the students and other people came out to run or walk. We just got to sit at the tribune and watch them. It really were best nights out.
4) ShishaHai
It is the toury area but it is so amazing. The area goes around three sees and are little shops and restaurants. At night everything is colourfull and everywhere os live music. If you need a place to go, go there. More infos will follow.
5) Peking Duck
Okay, eating is really important and that peking duck is amazingly delicious. I never ate peking duck before. So i had no idea what to expect and it looked a little suspious when my friend showed me but it taste really good. More infos will follow.
6) Lamma Temple/ Confusius Temple
I love this temple so much because it is still used as a place to pray. What makes it really make special place in Beijing. More infos will follow.
7) The Forbidden City
It is the sighting in Beijing and i really love this place. It is so huge and beautifull. I could stay the whole day there and just watch the building. But there is just so much that makes the other places just a tiny bit more amazing for me. More infos will follow.
