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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Two weekends ago we organized our first excursion out of “Taipei City”. We wanted to experience the “hot springs” and we decided to go to Wulai as it is east to reach using public transport. The Tourism Bureau of Taiwan prepares some compact guides for various destinations around Taipei. Find here the Wulai one that […]
In a recent visit to Taipei 101 bookstore I purchased one of the few magazines I could understand, The Economist. It features a very interesting article about the fact of being a foreigner in 2010 society Being foreign: The others (Dec 17th 2009)
