Met up with some Swedish work colleagues after work today. Martin and Micke are working in Beijing while Christian were, like Calle and me, visiting.

Micke had made reservations on a Western style grill/bar not so far from the office. Though it was raining so we got a taxi ride there and it took 10 minutes or so, me sitting in Christian’s lap since it was 5 of us and room for only 4 passengers. It turned out we had to make a quite big detour to get there and that’s why it took 10 minutes by car, though it would have taken the same time to walk there.

We had a nice evening talking about our company and the recent events in the telecom industry and more. It was also nice to see Martin, Micke and Christian again. They have all been working in Tokyo a while back but now moved to Beijing (Martin and Micke) and back to Lund (Christian).

Afterwards Calle and I got into a taxi but he refused to drive us. It was then that we understood that we were not so far from our hotel as we thought we were. It was basically “just around the corner” 🙂 It took us 10-15 minutes to walk to the hotel, and we passed the Szechuan restaurant we visited when we arrived to Beijing.