Our own Jiaojiehe House:

• Home page

• From the west

• From the north-west

• From the south-east

• Interior shell

• Breakfast room

• Master bedroom

• Wooden heart

• More of the interior

• The garden

• The original house

• Adding the personal touch

Jiaojiehe environs:

• Jiaojiehe valley and the Great Wall

• More local views

• Winter to summer 2006

• Dream Village House

• The Phoenix

• Paradise Lost
  (10th Sep 2007)

• Money talks
  (30th Nov 2007)

• Beauty and the Beast
  (26th Oct 2007)

The original house and dividing wall are barely visible in this picture taken in May 2004.

This is the view taken from a little bit further back and slightly lower down in December 2005. Our challenge is to grow bigger and better vegetables.... Not easy in an unfamiliar climate.

The soil is poor, it needs a huge infusion of organic matter. Fortunately, one side effect of being near a tourist area is an abundant supply of horse shit ready to be collected along the road from Huairou. Mind you, I do get some very strange looks from the Chinese!