chance encounter

without much planning, on this sunny sunday we went on our bicycle and ride around town from 11am to 5pm... from home to 古北...


the lake of 天山公園, which house the indie live venue YueYingTang - which i haven't had the chance to visit..


yet another "Creative Park" under construction


a "village" transformed into shops selling antique (or antique-style) furniture. that's where we've bought a whole bunch of flowers too...

such is the beauty of being in "another" city, that one would go out wander around and came to discover new sights and different streetscape - for that reason, i think we would want to maintain the status of "visitor-resident" for a long time... ...

recent re-visit to M50

it has been a while since we last visited the M50. it has not been in the spotlight recently, yet that reminds me the value of such places.

so this is where we are going.

i'm the kind that is easily attracted to visit a place by one single image. seeing enough scenic photos of various places, this time i'm in awe by this google earth photo.



it's just an aerial photo. but this kind of landscape i have not seen before. we looked at the fabric of cities, or occasionally a cliff or mountain. but these spiky little hills are intriguing... and i've always wanted to go to the hillside.



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(after the weeks of work work stress and work, we finally have got the time to think a little about our new year trip - and it feels good to have a strong surge to want to go to a particular place.)

so that's where we will be going.
to 桂林．陽朔．龍脊 ... ...
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and we went.. ...