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We’ve had a Chinese Post Graduate student living with us for the past three years, and in the autumn of 2002 he took me back to Beijing for a month to stay with his family. After the French experience, it was inevitably a Coolpix holiday. On the whole, photographically it was a big success. It would be nice to report that the Coolpix behaved faultlessly, but it failed – at, of all places – the Great Wall. Xinyang reckoned it might have been the excessive amount of static in the atmosphere. It recovered after a fashion - fortunately, because I discovered that the famous Nikon world-wide guarantee doesn’t apply to digital cameras.

Yard in Beijing Old Town	Leeks in Traditional Beijing Yard	Sharon Fruit and Bowls

The Great Wall	Going Home	Royal Garden

Temple of Heaven	Confucian School	Indoor Market Beijing

Garden of White Horse Temple	Bridge in Luoyang	Tower of White Horse Temple

Main Hall, White Horse Temple	Incence Burner, White Horse Temple	Corner of White Horse Temple

Corner in Forbidden City	Private Bus, Beijing	Street View, Xi'an

Selling Beijing Cabbages

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