Via Miguel Salas, a teacher of Spanish Language at Taichung I could learn that “Andaluces por el mundo” (Andaluces around the world) recently broadcast a chapter about Taiwan. Click on the image below to see the program(50 min) and get to know Taiwan and Taipei a little bit better. You can also have some good […]
You always heard that all Chinese people (or Asian people in general) look the same, right? There is a website 100% dedicated to this subject: AllLookSame :) Do you think you can distinguish them? It is not easy! :) You can test yourself on the Exam Room on the website, not only about faces but […]
The “Lantern Festival” is the final of the Chinese New Year Festivities. It is officially celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year in the Chinese calendar (so 28th of February on 2010). The truth is that the Lantern Festival is celebrated slightly before and for couple of days after […]
To be more integrated between Taiwanese people, and try to make us undesrtand, Albert and me we have started our respective Chineses lessons. But, in different schools, different timetable and different places. It’s impressive how many things you can do with three hours everyday, from Monday to Friday!! Albert, due to his complicated timetable and […]
Using the holidays from the Chinese New Year we flew to Japan to visit Ricard and Asako, do some sigthseeing and go to ski! After 3 hours flight, here we are at Tokyo! Asako came to pick us up from Shinjuku station as Ricard was still at work (the small heater is there because we […]
While we work on the post from the trip to Japan, I strongly suggest you to take a look at the photo gallery from The Boston (The Big Picture) Click here to see the gallery
Happy Chinese New Year! Next February 14th we will enter in the new chinese year, that will be the year of the Tiger The Chinese New Year is the most important festival on the Chinese culture and you can compare it with the Western Christmas at some extend. There is a period of holidays, people […]
During the landing process at Taiwan, a lot of help has been provided by Stan, a colleague at ADB. To thank him for all the efforts we decided to invite them (Stan and her wife Janet) to have dinner in one of the Spanish restaurants in Taipei: “El Patio de mi Casa” (blog in Chinese) […]
Last January 29th, ADB (the company I work for) celebrated the “Weiya party”. It would be the equivalent to the Xmas dinner in Europe. The party takes place various weeks in advance of the actual Chinese New Year (14th February 2010) The Weiya is very important for the Taiwanese people and the company spends a […]
Last weekend, taking advantage of a very sunny Sunday, we decided to take the red MRT line up to its last stop at Danshui., about 40 minutes north of Taipei Central Station. Various people recommended us to visit Danshui to escape from the city chaos. If you are familiar with Barcelona, Danshui would be a […]
