FYI

Here's a picture of the Beijing sky at 7pm today. Just in case your local paper writes anything to the contrary- we've had a lovely blue sky all day, with clouds that were real and not just gray, polluted blobs. I even spent the entire afternoon on the balcony! Must have been due to the heavy rain we've had over the last couple of days.

Of course, we do have badly polluted air here, and most summer days so far have been quite smoggy. I've never seen a sky as gray as in some of the photos in the press though- as with most things about China, this is frequently exaggerated.

And, don't forget- this is the pollution that the West conveniently exported to China and India.

Bis dann,

Nadine

The sky above the building opposite mine