We started the day with waking up early and driving to a deserted part of the Great Wall to BBQ. Traffic to this place was horrible because these last 3 days people have just been sitting home watching the national day show on TV like myself as well.After almost 3 hours and a lot of traffic later we finally arrived at our destination. The gatekeepers had some problem with us bringing the barbeque (grilli) inside the Great Wall area. They told us that today is too windy, it's forbidden to go up on the Wall to BBQ but for a sum of 5 euros we will let you BBQ by the little lake here. Well sure, have 5 euros beat it! Let us make some food awesome food! We are starving after the long car ride. Second problem was getting the BBQ started. We had bought the coal from a street barbequer last night in downtown but could not get it lighted, we didn't have any lightning fuel or stuff like that. Luckily we got this fixed by asking a local barbeqer to borrow us some burning coal.We barbequed sausages, bacon and 5 huge steaks! Food was soo soo soo good and the 24 can beer pack was quickly consumed by the 4 of us (3 finns and 1 brittish) We barbequed sausages, bacon and 5 huge steaks! Food was soo soo soo good and the 24 can beer pack was quickly consumed by the 4 of us (3 finns and 1 brittish)
This place was really nice, it was in a valley and mountains all around. The sky and weather was the clearest and most beautiful i have ever seen in Beijing so far! Incredible! When we were leaving i emptied all the burning coal onto the ground and by accident stepped on one of them, HOOOT! Luckily the swelling was not that bad and i can walk normally, don't understand how those Thai people do that coal walk, crazy....
The Mid Autumn Festival is one of the most important festivals in China. It's the national day (just wrote about it) and a lot of the time is spent with the family. Today is one of those important family days where you either gather a lot of people at someones home or go out for a nice dinner. At these dinners everybody eats mooncakes for dessert, mooncakes can be made of fruits or meat. They look like small moons and some of them can be really expensive like the ones on the picture here. Their price were almost 200 euros...i dunno how they tasted because we gave them as gifts. Maybe I'll get a chance to taste them later.
In the evening i went with Hyans family to a restaurant and everybody treat me so so nice. Sometimes i feel like some kind of royalty who isn't really a royalty but just a fraud, still everybody still treats me incredibly nice. Just gotta love her family's hospitality and Chinese hospitality in general as well. All you who have been here to meet me know what i mean!
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