Location: Beijing, China
Travel Note Summary: (#121) Beijing, Great Wall, Tianjin 3-Day Tour (1) It's been a week since I returned to Taiwan, but I'm still incredibly busy every day. Thinking back to the weekly group tours before I left Shanghai, the final stop this year was Beijing. I originally planned to go alone, but just before departure, an old classmate from Creative Electronics, Junhong, suddenly said his project ended and he had time to join my tour. Meeting an old friend in a foreign land is always a good thing, of course~ So I tweaked the itinerary a bit and called the hostel near Yonghegong to book an extra bed. Thus, on a certain night in early December, I boarded a flight on the Shanghai-Beijing route and arrived in Beijing from Shanghai, meeting up with Junhong who came directly from Taiwan. To be honest, in my life, aside from a few trips to the mountains, I've rarely been in such low temperatures around zero degrees for so long. So, after returning to Shanghai from those few days of travel, I quite unheroically caught a bad cold. I felt utterly weak and miserable, and only got better after finally going to Kangjun for a master to perform gua sha and cupping. But tw…