Archive for Oktober 22nd, 2008

Beijing Airport Expressway

Mittwoch, Oktober 22nd, 2008

This was sent out by the Benelux Chamber of Commerce in China to notify Beijing residents and visitors. It is amazing how huge streets can just be shut down for four days without much notice. Good that I ride bike and usually am not affected by road closures.

Temporarily closed Airport Expressway in Beijing
 

Starting tomorrow Beijing will host the Seventh Asia-Europe Summit from October 23 – October 26. The government will temporarily close the Airport Expressway and all the exits along it as follows:

October 23 – 8:30am – 11:00pm, Direction Airport to the City
October 24 – 8:00am – 1:30 pm, Direction Airport to the City
October 25 –    4:30pm – 11:00pm, Direction City to the Airport
October 26 –    8:30am – 8:00pm,   Direction City to the Airport

This will put extra pressure on the more local roads like Jing Shun Road with the potential to create major traffic jams and hazards.

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China PT Expo

Mittwoch, Oktober 22nd, 2008

Currently China’s biggest Telecommunications Exhibition and FTTH Conference is going on in the China New Exhibition Center near the Beijing airport. That place is almost in the middle of nowhere and not so easy to get to or find a taxi to get back to the city. It was great to meet some of my dear ex-colleagues there. It was also fun to cycle there and cycle back home. I actually managed to arrive back home before the rain started.

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Ole Indoor Climbing Wall and Bouldering Place

Mittwoch, Oktober 22nd, 2008

The progress of the indoor climbing wall and bouldering place is amazing. Just a few weeks ago it was just an idea to open a place for rock climbing in Beijing during the winter and now it is almost finished. The bouldering place we all went to last year unfortunately closed in the spring and they now have a restaurant in there (but still kept the bouldering wall and all the grips on it).

My friends is the project manager for this climbing & mountaineering center project. It is in the Ole soccer facility near East 4th Ring Road. She showed me the progress of the climbing wall and the bouldering room. The experts from the Tibetean Mountaineering Association just arrived to set up the climbing routes and work in this center. I think the bouldering room is so beautiful.I can’t waittill it is opened for us to climb.

New Bouldering Wall

Beautiful Bouldering Wall

Posted in Beijing, Climbing | 4.914 Comments »