Building Beijing

Our hotel is on the northeast side of Beijing, not far from the Olympic Village being whipped up for 2008. (This means it is a long way from the center. My early idea about walking from here to the Forbidden City would be like hoofing it from Pasadena to Santa Monica....). Cain, who is an automotive designer who has come along with us to shoot a video, says that 70% of all cranes in the world are here in China (and not whooping cranes either), and I believe it. Construction everywhere, starting this morning at 6, just after the roosters got crowing.

Haonan's taking us to the Great Wall in a few....
Ziajian! [ciao]