6月14日，友人夫妇开车带我去他们在蓟县的度假屋。现在从天津到蓟县十分方便，开车走高速公路很快就到，多数家庭都有自己的汽车，因为那天是星期天，所以很多人都去度假，路上有点堵，要不然很快就到了。
他们的度假屋坐落于当地的富人区，那里多数是津京两地的有钱人的投资热门，小屋是酒店式的，虽然很小，五脏俱全，他们对此进行了豪华装修，特别是卫生间用具，都是一流的，房间集卧室，客厅，厨房于一体，倒也别致。屋外还有一个小院子，他们在里面种满了蔬菜，花生和番薯等，极富情趣。
这以后，我们去了当地的一间餐厅吃午餐，当地的餐厅以农家菜而闻名，又因为这里紧挨着于桥水库，友人说这里的鱼味道极鲜美，但最令我难忘的是一道叫做大丰收的典型农家菜，所谓大丰收就是将各种生的新鲜蔬菜切好装盘，再配上一碗黄豆酱，既不破坏蔬菜原有的营养成分，又不油腻，味道极好，现在想到还流口水。
饭后我们游历了具有上千年历史的独乐寺和白塔寺。虽然我们是自己游览，没有参加任旅行团，但我们随意加入了其中的两个，导游们也十分友善地回答我们的询问，凸现现在中国导游的素质已今非昔比了。
这之后，我们又去了蓟州古城，据说现在除了鼓楼外，其他都是新建的仿古建筑，但也极富特色，很值得一游。
有人的家就坐落在府君山下，于是游玩古城之后我们又去爬了府君山。有人体贴地为我找了一双软底拖鞋，再加上山并不很高，当时太阳已近下山了，周围设施修得极其完善，所以爬山的感觉很妙。在山上，看到一群年轻人在练习唱歌，据说是为了歌唱比赛或选秀赛做的准备，现在中国的乡下人生活也是极富色彩呢。
古蓟州，果然是个好地方，据说当年乾隆曾说早知有此，何必下江南，有机会一定要来此看看。
14/06/10, my friend and her husband drove me to their vacation home in Jixian, a county in Tianjin.
It’s about 2 hours drive from the city on the highway depending on the road conditions. Now Jixian is becoming a very popular vacation place for people from Tianjin and Beijing because it is located in between these two cities and many families now have their own cars. As a result, many people now are wooing for a short distance, self-driving tour. The day we went was on Sunday. So it was a bit congested.
Their vacation home is a hotel style suite. Although modest, it has nearly everything. The bathroom has just undergone an extensive renovation. All the accessories are world class. Additionally the sitting room, bedroom and kitchen are all one room, without walls or partitions. It’s quite interesting though. They also have one small yard outside which was planted with vegetables, peanuts, sweet potatoes and so on.
Lunch was at a local restaurant which was famous for "farm dishes". My friend told me because the place was near the famous Yuqiao Reservoir, so people normally come for fishes. But the dish impressed me the most was called "Da Feng Shou" – which means fabulous harvest. They had accumulated many kinds of raw vegetables cut into bite size pieces that you would then dip into fermented soy bean paste. It’s damn delicious and even until today the taste is still lingering in my mind.
After the lunch, we went to visit 独乐寺and 白马寺. These two temples both have more than a 1000 years of history. Although we did not join any package tour, we followed two guides from time to time. Both of the guides answered our questions although they realized we were not the members from their groups. That is a strong indicator that China has greatly improved their tourist industry.
Then we visited this ancient town. It’s said that except the 鼓楼- The Drum Tower (In each ancient Chinese town, city or village, there was a drum tower. The purpose of having it was to gather the crowd and make the important announcements) , and the rest of the buildings are simply the modern replicas. Yet it looked also terrific.
After that we climbed the mountain named 府君山, as their house is just at the foot of the 府君山. As my friend offered me her soft slippers and the mountain was not really that high, another reason was the Sun was nearly setting, our climbing was a truly enjoyable one. Inside a pavilion on top of the mountain, we saw some youngsters practicing their singing in preparation for some competition. It seems in China even villagers are having a more colorful life compared to the past. Ancient Jizhou (the old name for Jixian) was an interesting place which located on the border in between Chinese and Northern ethnic groups. Therefore, the culture is always attractive. In Qing Dynasty, the Emperor Qianlong visited there and said if I knew such a place, I wouldn’t visit Jiangnan (South Eastern China) He was right and it’s definitely worth visiting.
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