Weixuanxiaozhu
Travel Blogs from Miao-li
Taichung City
... heraus. Aber nicht so schlimm, hier gibt es auch ein paar Läden - in denen wir natürlich etwas finden ;). Durch Zufall entdecken wir in einer Seitenstraße noch einen Markt. Die neuartigen Gerüche überfordern mich jedoch ein wenig und ich habe keine Lust etwas zu probieren. Beim nächsten Mal bestimmt!
Nach vielen neuen Eindrücken und endlich mal wieder "westlichem" Essen von Subway geht es zurück nach ...
Shadowfax
... I'd be okay with a bike purchase. The additional sanity provided by having my own set of wheels would be more than worth a few more 7/11 budget meals.
Right around the corner from my apartment was a Giant-brand bicycle shop. They're a Taiwanese company and their slick fancy chain stores can be found all over the island, Jhunan alone had at least two if not more. I'm not sure how they all stay ...
"Teachah, Teachah!"
... were, all the kids and even some grown-ups would automatically respond like this without variation.
The lesson got started. It seemed mostly in line with what I'd read about Taiwanese cram school classes on the interwebs. The kids were divided onto two teams with silly names and earned or lost points throughout the lesson depending on their performance. The winning team at the end got to pick from a ...
Oh!My & The Tower of Pijou
... the feel of an underused hotel bar. What it did have good though was a cozy outdoor seating area with long wooden benches and decent house-brewed beer, two things hard to come by in these parts.
When I got there a few people were already hanging out around one of the outside tables. I recognized two from my school, Ned the Brit & Carrie from Canada. Ned had only been in Jhunan a week or two and was practically as new to ...
The First Meander
... the main area I passed a FamilyMart (better known in LA as Famima!!), a dumpling house, a few other more deserted restaurants I had less hope of ordering food from, and a row of three large grey drug stores. There was no sidewalk. In the gutter in front of OneOn International Drug Chain Store was a lonely coin-operated kiddie ride playing a muffled Chinese lullaby.
The core stretch of development began at the next light where I would pop into a 7/11 ...
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