Dumoulin: Nearby, tomato plants hang heavy with plump, reddening fruit, according to Global Times China. It isn't just a hobby for Dumoulin, who runs a company that sells natural health ingredients derived from organic botanicals; it an oasis. "When I am sitting in the garden during summer evenings, enjoying a nice red wine with some friends or visitors and people pass by, I hear them murmur, 'These foreigners know how to enjoy life,'" he laughs. Photp: Li Hao/GT Standing in the shady, stone-paved patio of his private courtyard, Gordon Dumoulin gestures to a garden bed filled with sturdy young plants - rosemary, oregano, sage, thyme. It the kind of serene, laidback lifestyle that, for most city dwellers, exists only in jaunts to the countryside or weekend getaways. It was something of an accident that led Dumoulin to Tongzhou, where he made his home for the past six years. But for Dumoulin, it just part of his everyday life in Tongzhou, a farflung district in Eastern Beijing that, more and more, is becoming home to expats looking for an escape from the capital chaotic city center.
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