If you have not read the first part of this post I recommend to read it before proceeding with this one. Arirang If you’ve looked up for North Korea outside of the the traditional news it is very likely that you saw some images of Arirang. Arirang is a gymnastic performance where more than 100000 […]
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August 21, 2011 9As Anna already mentioned at her last post I was not going to visit her in India. The secret holiday destination this year was North Korea (or Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) and as you are reading this it means that everything was alright :) As it is an unusual destination (as you can […]
Although Taiwan is an extremely safe country (specially when compared to some areas of Barcelona), they have an obsession with security (fences, blocked windows, etc.) and security cameras in particular (EVERYWHERE). The latest addition to the mix is the so called “black box” camera or DVR for cars. It all started with the taxis and […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the many surprising facts of Taiwan is that it hosts some of the largest manufacturers of bicycles in the world: Giant (the largest in the world), Media and Ideal among others. It is then not a shock to know that biking is the most popular sport in the the island and that a […]
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 […]
While most of the catholic nations were celebrating Easter, in Taiwan we celebrated the Tomb Sweeping Day, so April 5th was a national holiday. We took an extra day off for an extended weekend at Borneo, a peculiar island in south-east Asia that belongs to 3 different countries: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. The destination was […]
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 […]
Few days late… but let us post about the New Year’s Eve at Taipei. After a quick dinner (a kind of thick noodles soup with some topping), we headed to Taipei 101 area (still the tallest buliding in the world until Burj Dubai is opened later this year). For the last 6 years this is […]
