Yesterday I
moved again, this is now fourth place where I will be living since my arrival
in Beijing (1.1.2015). There have been differences between places, but there
are two things that connects all of them: Hard beds and a western toilets and
that is a luxury because all public toilets and even most of the restaurants
etc. have the kind of system where you have to squat to do your things (in
Finnish knows as “kyykkyvessa”). Thank god I’m not a woman because then life would
be much more complicated, if you know what I mean... ;-)
But back to
the places I lived so far. First place was called Beijing Tiantan Wancheng
Hotel (rated two-to-three stars), in general nice place Southern part of
Beijing just above the Temple of Heaven park but with non-English speaking
staff. The room was okay, quite spacious double room with a big window with
kind of “French balcony.” Bathroom had even a shower section separated partly (just
the sliding door was missing) by glass so the whole bathroom wouldn’t be
floating after taking a shower. Stayed 10 nights.
Then I
moved to the hostel called Feel Inn where I supposed to have a bed in dormitory
shared with five people, but I was put in to smaller “room”, or more like a
closet with only one bunk bed and one chair. Room itself was about 2,5m x 1,5m
without a window but the hostel had a nice small bar/common room where to spend
time. Bathroom facilities were shared, two toilet-shower combinations where
shower was attached to wall almost above the toilet. It was even smaller box
than my room, where slippers were always needed to avoid getting feet wet! On
the other hand, if paying 5 euros for a night there is no much to complain,
besides I liked the place. Location was great, only 10 min walk to Forbidden
City so like really really central location. Stayed 7 nights.
As I had
been moving onward on South-North axis, thought to keep up the same direction.
Third place was Yo Yo hostel, quite far from center (close to Longze metro
station). To get to the center, I needed to change metro at least once and in
total ride took 45 minutes. Super warm spacious double room without actual bed,
it was just a mattress on the floor, but it worked well as it was the way room was
designed. There was one very interesting interior design solution: As you were
in the room, lying on a bed, it was possible to see the shower through the
glass window in a wall. That was the only window in the room, which drove me
nuts because there was no way to know what time of the day or what kind of the
day it was before actually walking outside. Stayed 4 nights, but it was free
for me because the company where Baiba started to work, paid the room during
her training period… So no reason to complain.
As I said,
yesterday I moved again. Back to the city center in a hostel called Happy
Dragon (such a Chinese name :D). Room in here is okay sized double room, a bit
chilly but without any weird glass walls and with the small window which
actually means a lot after living in “darkness”. The plan is to stay here until
end of February, a bit more than 30 nights… Hopefully so but we’ll see, it's a
long time so who knows what kind of ideas might come up with.
Afterwards I will
get my student dormitory room on campus and Baiba will be looking some flat/room
to rent. But before getting that far, it
was time to celebrate this new “home” with some fruits (generally tasty, except Finnish strawberries are better) and glass of apple wine (turned out to be a "okay tasty" Chinese product).
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