More of our our apartment

The bedroom contains two wardrobes, two bedside tables, a big desk and chair (Lizzie's) and a huge bed. It's bigger than the footprint of the tent that we took on our camping trip to Cape Breton so long ago with Jay and Pam.  The mattresses her are very hard, but we are used to it.
Dining room table, small and efficient.

David the cook in our well appointed kitchen. Like the whole apartment it is quite spacious, yet can be cleaned top to bottom in an hour. We have to clean often because of the ever present dust.  This will get a lot worse in the winter when the air quality deteriorates due to coal heating, Ugh. More on that another time.





A previous tenant added these lovely wall decorations. There is one on the apartment door that says, "Utopia." Well, it's pretty nice.

The view from our living room and bedroom windows.  I love the angles and colours. That's our alley below. The sign reads "Unforgettable Hotel" Given that the usual length of stay at the hotel is reputed to be three hours, it has quite likely been unforgettable for a fair number of students over the years.

(Try to find  "Unforgettable Hotel Changchun" on YouTube)

The blue tarp was put up (noisily) at 4:30  am every day until last week. It sheltered the soymilk and youtiao makers and eaters. While that breakfast stand is not longer there, the dumpling lady who works in front of the internet cafe to the left of the hotel is still in action rolling and frying dumplings from 5 am. They are so good!

In between is a small supermarket with a big outdoor display of fruit for sale, It's open from very early until after 10 pm. We wandered back from dinner around 9:30 last night and were able to pick up this morning's fruit before going inside.