Sunday afternoon pix

Pictures from my Sunday afternoon walk with Gaetan around the hutongs (alleyways) south of Tiananmen Square - in the Qianmen district.


An attempt at a park? I don't think so...
Hutongs being destroyed...it's happening all around Beijing as the capital tries to modernize as a result of rapid development. There are public washrooms everywhere in these residential neighbourhoods and Gaetan guesses it's because the people don't have private bathrooms in their homes - it's true that it doesn't look like the people living in these places have running water.

I thought this would be an interesting picture, but some guy (coming in on the left) came to ask for directions right then. The small guy talking to the police had a black face and was asking for directions himself. Who knows what he's doing in Beijing or where he's going.