So where do you go in Beijing on the first sunny day of your visit? You could do worse than the Temple of Heaven.
'If walls could talk' was a phrase I used to hear quite often, referring to the silent witnesses to all that goes on within a space. Well maybe this young lady is a wall whisperer - a lady who can hear what the walls have to say.
Today's photo, 'Hold on Tight' was taken in Tienanmen Square in 1991. I'm not sure what the boy was watching - perhaps all us strange foreigners, perhaps another police squad marching from A to B.
Today's photo, taken on the 'Spirit Way' to the Ming Dynasty Tombs outside Beijing shows a novel way to keep your hat on - a large bolt! Of course, in western culture, the bolt ran through the neck (Frankenstein).
"Didn't fancy walking then?" is what I imagine the policeman standing on the left is saying to the policeman on the bike.