Call Me Garden Hotel Chiayi

... a banana-mango smoothie and had hamburgers. Later, after another nap I'm sure, we headed to June's so Mom could meet some of the foreigners here.

Saturday. We went shopping at Carrefour and picked up some regular items like cereal and fruit. I stopped for a moment and sampled some beer *blah*. I left Mom for a nap and I went out shopping for some fireworks. We went to a BBQ later in the evening. There were ...

We headed off to June's for a little St. Patrick's Day celebration. We played some Wii and Twister. There was some Irish music playing courtesy for an Irish Canadian guy. We were a little disappointed as it was like drown your sorrows kinda music unlike the upbeat East Coast music we might usually hear in Canada on this day.

... the global economic meltdown, the thought of flying return to anywhere in S.E.Asia is probably prohibitively expensive for many western travelers. Toss in a long, uncomfortable and usually sleep deprived flight spent mindlessly gawping at all the movies you didn’t want to watch in the theatre, liberally sprinkle with a few days of whacked out sleep cycle and suddenly Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Caribbean islands beckon with greater allure. Fortunately for ...

... a skeleton and they ran back out. Numerous times I crouched down and shone a light in my face so they felt brave enough to step out of the tunnel, even then they ran through. Theresa was next in the house she was sitting among the stuffed bodies so as the kids walked past she'd reach out at them. Then Nick was next, wearing no costume trying to give the kids a candy, by that point they were having none of that ...

... adventures. Theresa and I went to the opening of one near our house. Then the three of us headed to "the big Carrefour" and caught a celebratory parade honouring the ending of Ghost Month. And the Pet Store, how we love thee! Next comes the clothing night market, with it's crazy mannequins.  Finally the food night market, where Theresa and Sam bought some good eats.

... die mit einem rauchenden Schornstein versehen waren; meine Gastschwester findet, die sehen aus wie Straussen...die aber eine rauchen, finde ich. Darin werden auf jeden Fall Huenchen schoen knusprig, goldbraun gebacken. Unser Magen hat uns dann auch signalisiert, dass es jetzt Zeit ist, diese Spezialitaet zu probieren. Das Gickel wurde ganz serviert, mit Kopf und Fuessen und dazu ein paar Handschuhe. So und weil ...

... in the inner rift valley via cross mountain road No.11 minor. The road is not very spectecular, but a nice country road through rolling green hills until km 15. Almost no cars on the road, not one house. A water buffalo herd is drinking water and bathing in a river below the road. At 9:00am it becomes already increasingly hot. Only very little shadow as the mountains are not steep. Only an intermittant light breeze gives shortterm relieve. I must say I ...

... hotel from the Japanese time. Wow, has it changed: A new hotel complex has been built, but the old Japanese wooden building with the tatami rooms has been maintained and restored for sightseeing, no more for hotel use. At 9:30 we begin our walk up to 380 meters on the very new road No.30 with almost no traffic. When we arrive on the top the road is closed in front of a new tunnel, part of the whole new link. Now, what to do? We walk on and hope ...

... till half past six in the morning. For breakfast four toasts we bought the day before from a moving bread car which the wife toasts and serves with hamburger meat, onions and milk tea - hey, the breakfast is taking shape. While sitting there the kids come by and buy their breakfast before going to school. One of the kids is a 6/7 year old boy with running nose whom I had met the day before. The comes to me saying: " Do you show me the photos about Germany as you ...

... against mountain sickness as it opens the vessels - I just wonder what the side ( or basically main ) effect may do on the trail. We wish him a good hike and good weather, which it is today. After 20 minutes the bus stops at Motien and we begin immediatelly or way down to the hot spring. At first the way is a one lane concrete way, then turning into a 500m dirt trail leading about 200m down. After that the trail becomes almost vertical dropping ...