Taking some additional days off around the Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan (similar to All Saints day for Christians) we decided to team up with Yupei (Taiwanese) and Steve (Québécois) to tour around Taiwan island in a week. We were starting to be ashamed of not having visited yet a number of places in Taiwan […]
Taking advantage of a 3-day weekend, we escaped to a semi-local tourist destination: Penghu. Penghu is a group of ~90 islands (and small islands) less than one hour away from Taipei. It is like going to Menorca (Balear Islands) from Barcelona. With less than 100.000 inhabitants in total, the offer for western food is almost […]
After all the snow in Hokkaido we went back to Tokyo and transfered to Kyoto the following morning. It takes two and a half hours with the Nozomi Shinkansen and it gives you the opportunity to see the Fujisan on your right-hand side. Kyoto Kyoto was the capital of Japan for over a millennium, and […]
Let me start with a Happy Chinese New Year to everybody! 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit Going to Japan during Chinese New Year break is starting to be a classic for us. From 29th January to 06th February we moved quite a lot around Japan. To make it easier to digest I will […]
Happy New Year to everybody! We have started 2011 in very good company! Using the Christmas break and some additional days, we have received the visit (unexpected and decided at the very last minute) of Mar (my sister) and Carles (my brother in law) Acting as good hosts we took the to the must see […]
Last week we had Xavi and Pili around Taipei. Shortly before we left to Taiwan we went to their wedding. They are the first visit we have since Anna’s parents left (last May) After my quick visit to Madrid during the European tour (last October), Xavi and Pili were convinced to come to Taipei (more […]
In Taiwan of the most popular sports is hiking. There are many blogs devoted to this topic, like this one for example http://hikingtaiwan.wordpress.com/ Nearby Taipei there are some not very high mountains (top peak 1120m). The trails are easy to reach by metro and/or bus. It is good enough to escape from the city for […]
So, as you saw on the previous post, we wanted to go to Shanghai after Anna got the visa. Pulpito did not get his visa for China so this time he could not travel with us. We arranged for an extended weekend (4 days) to visit Shanghai and go to the Expo. Shanghai is just […]
Last weekend we went to Hong Kong. It’s not far away from Taipei (around 1.30h by plane), but from the city center to the airport, and vice versa, it took around 5 hour to arrive there. We have to say that we didn’t start very well the trip, as the night before our flight was […]
For the last 156 years on the 14th day of the Ghost Month Keelung hosts the “Mid-summer Ghost Festival” . Every year a different family/clan is in charge of the organization, this year it was the turn of Wu clan family. The festival starts with a parade that starts around 20:00 at the center of […]
