In general oriental people prefer to do things in groups rather than alone. Life: west vs. east So, while using the MRT system in Taipei it is usual to see groups of kids and teenagers dancing together in the huge corridors and underground malls. Although they mostly dance just for fun and as a social […]
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 […]
A couple of weeks ago, we went to watch the La Liga match Madrid-Barça. In Taiwan football is not very popular in general, they prefer baseball, but in Taipei there are some pubs that broadcast all kind of sports at any time (they will even broadcast the English royal wedding!). One of them is the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wednesday June 16th will be a bank holiday in Taiwan to celebrate the “Dragon Boat Festival“. See the advert here below. Dragon Boat Festival is one of the major holidays in Chinese culture. Dragon Boat Festival is a celebration of the life of Qu Yuan, a Chinese poet, who ended up committing suicide by throwing […]
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 […]
Although I am not a big football fan, I could not sleep well last night so I decided to try what was on TV to help me falling sleep. There was Barça-Espanyol match going on in a Japanese channel, obviously that did not help to sleep :) … and I ended up watching the whole […]
