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Taiwan Zai Jian! … and ManMan

Zài jiàn in Chinese means “good bye” or at some extend “see you later”. It is time for us to leave Taiwan and we have everything arranged to leave next October 5th 2011. More details on all that later on, so keep reading :) Time flies and it is amazing to look back at the […]

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Colorful India

As I already told before, India is so big and has many different things to be discovered, from the pure Comunism from North Corea to the colorful India with its castes. It has been a bit more than one month, but days have run, it has been very intense and full of experiences. India is […]

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Asia is very big

So it is, Asia is the biggest continent in terms of extension area, but also it does not run short of population with its almost 4000 bilion people. By chance, we ended up into the heart of Asia, as Taiwanese say. This is why during this year and a half we have been living in […]

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“Maligayang Kaarawan”

To understand the title of the post you will need to keep reading :) (or use Google translate) We are just back from a 4-days weekend at Anilao (Philippines). Dragon Boat (day off in Taiwan) was on June 6th (Monday) so it was easy to get an extended weekend. We joined a trip organized by […]

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Sant Jordi @ South Korea

Anna had to leave Taiwan for visa reasons, so we arranged an extended weekend trip to Seoul during Sant Jordi. South Korean stamp was missing on our passports :) Seoul We did not have much expectations about our visit to Seoul, as almost nobody in Taipei made a single positive comment about Seoul, Korea or […]

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Tour Taiwan 100

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 […]

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Weekend at the islands

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 […]

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Japan part II (Kyoto and surroundings)

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 […]

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Japan part I (Niseko – Sapporo)

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 […]

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Epicurean trip home

I had to go to Europe for couple of meetings and Anna just finished her 3rd term of Chinese, so we arranged to spend almost 3 weeks in Europe. Specially for Anna it was starting to be mandatory to have an Asian break after more than 9 months at Taiwan. There is no better way […]

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