Beijing: the view from home base

I arrived on January 31st in Beijing and was staying in what is halfway between a hotel and an apartment, a kind of extended stay apartment. It was night when I got there, so there were no pictures until the next morning. These are as I emerged from the building and took a look around. Beijing did not look that different from a lot of other big cities. the car models were different. They people were almost all ...gasp...Chinese, but it was not that strange or foreign  to me. This is a good beginning....