We were taken out for one nice swanky meal at a seafood place, where, in addition to every fish and shellfish under the sun, you could eat bullfrogs and turtles (sort of visible here).
The restaurant was pretty elabourate, and we got our own private dining room.
Teda is a very modern and nice looking area, although the air in Tianjin can be pretty bad.
Still, very modern, very clean, and very pleasant feeling place.
As mentioned above, that lasted 2 hours, and this was the area we spent the rest of the trip in. This is the view from my hotel room.
Although, getting to see oil drilling platforms under construction is kinda cool.
Even if they're evil, evil i tells ya, eevvviillllll!!!!!!
The hotel wasn't nearly as creepy as some other Chinese hotels I had previously used, and we were hugely relieved.
The room was entirely pleasant, and I spent some (veeery boring) evenings watching Chinese soaps.
This is the entrance to the hotel. Note the huge ditch and creaky wooden plank to get across it.
Hotel.
Weird other building next to the hotel.
The other creaky wooden plank we needed to use to get to work.
More of our 'hood'. They had to open the restaurant for us, because we were the only guests who were actually eating, it seems.
This is where I spent most of my time. Exciiiiting. It's a former ERP laboratory.
As we left town, the weather turned gorgous. This picture shows why the traffic in Tang Gu (it, along with Teda, is a suburb of Tianjin) is so awful:
There is the bridge in the distance and the bridge we're on to get across the river. That is all.
Weird way to spend three days, but when you're getting paid ....