After more than one year in Taiwan and we didn’t talk about food yet! It’s unforgivable considering that Taiwanese love food! (and taking pictures of the food). The first thing we should point out is that Taiwanese or Chinese food in general, doesn’t have anything to do, absolutley anything, with the famous Chinese restaurants in […]
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 […]
Let me start with the conclusion after attending this festival: Taiwanese people are crazy but Catalans are not far behind :) The celebrations of Chinese New Year end on the 15th day of the year (this time it was February 17th) and big events are held everywhere in Taiwan. Last year we joined the Pingxi […]
Alert: this is a long post (and very interesting!). Try to find a quiet moment to read it in detail. Maybe because of the distance, maybe because of new experiences, maybe because of the age… :) we’re looking for changes. Driven by the will of learning new things, to start new projects or finally define […]
A month ago or so, in a cafe in the Shida night-market are I spotted an advert about a “pets carnival” to be celebrated on early January. As I enjoy freak stuff (and I convinced Anna to join) we paid a visit to the exhibition. Walking around Taipei is not unusual to see pets (specially […]
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 […]
Our new flat has a cheaper rental but everything has a hidden cost. One of the differences in the new flat is that we now need to manage the trash ourselves (in the other flat the people managing the building took care of it), and we had to learn how it works in Taipei (Taiwan […]
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 […]
As I renewed my contract and Anna got a job, we have decided to stay some more time in Taipei. Our flat rental was for one year and we decided to look around for cheaper options. We like the area of Taipei where we have been living so far (close to Shida night market and […]
Probably you have seen more than once videos of people fighting (boxing/karate) at some parliament. Quite often these images are from Taiwanese or South Korea parliament. Here below you have a brawl at the Taiwanese parliament on July 2010 while discussing about the EFCA agreement. Next November 27th there will be municipal elections to five […]
