Postcard from Taiyuan

There was no discernible pollution from the minute I arrived at around 7:30 a.m. until the late afternoon -- a whisk of blue was in the sky, actually -- and then the sun went down to illuminate all that lurks in twilight.



Capital of Coal Province

By the way, I'm blogging from a 70-kuai hotel room (I overpaid) with no shortage of small cockroaches, a picture of a half-naked woman on the wall and porn lights. These are what porn lights look like:


This was before I figured out the combination of buttons to turn on the fluorescent. The flashing blue and red don't stop though.