Chuto Plaza Hotel Taoyuan

This was a busy week filled with new adventures....<br><br>Tuesday:<br>On Tuesday I went to take my test for my scooter license. Many foreigners here drive without a license, I did for the first 3 months, but I decided it was time to try my luck at the test. There a a health check, a written part and a driving portion to the test. There was a group of 6 of us that went with one of the Chinese teachers to help with translation. We first had the health check this involved ...

... signal and horn. People must've thought I was some deranged psycho who was honking at people for no reason and turning her signals on to mess with them. I had one last trip to make and of course it started to rain. I was pretty wet and unhappy by the time I got to the dorm (where I would be spending the night) and then had to head back out into the rain to order pizza at Pizza Hut. I got there, placed the order and then drove to Carrefour to try and ...

... the whole bathroom flooded. That and there were no real hostel staff around at any time. Overall...not a good place to stay. When my 3 friends arrived on Saturday...we went to the fancy hotel in Kaohsiung (Splendor) and got a room for only a bit more than what we would've paid at the hostel. This room was super posh and the bathroom was fantastic. Definitely one of the best places I have stayed in. Kaohsiung struck me as a very VERY quiet town with not a ...

... minutes searching for the ONE character I need...LOL). ÎÒ²» ÊÇ ÃÀ+ø ÈË ÎÒ ÊÇÒ»°ë ¼ÓÄôó ÈË, Ò»°ë °ÍÎ÷ ÈË. Äã ÄØ? The sentence above reads: "I am not American. I am half Canadian and half Brazilian. And you"? I can easily say some 50 words in Chinese...if not more. I can read and write about 30 or so. Those numbers are increasing daily and I can make quite a few sentences (using the words I already know) as well as order drinks and food ...

... to "Shi da night market" for dinner before going back "Taipei hostel". To get to "shi da NM" , take the MRT to "tai dian da lou - Tai Power Building" and come out of exit 3. Turn right and right again to walk in the street where there are rows of small shops. When you walked pass the second Watson, turn right to get to the "Shi Da" road. Ask people if you are not sure, Taiwanese are really friendly.

Hello Everyone My long flight was nice -- we had personal tv, plenty of movies to choose from and a foot massager :-D flying economy class isn't so bad and the good was great because i was starving I'm typing in a rush because this is free internet much love to you all I should be getting into Bangkok on Saturday at 1220pm Leave notes and I'll access a computer ...

... my flight to Bangkok.....(in my drunken state I really believed that I could go to bed for just one hour!)......my punishment being that I had to wait 12 hungover hours in Taipei Airport for the next flight to Bangkok!!!

... at the end, maybe shout a little bit. No manic shoving to the front, it was wonderful! But, this means no real characters either - noone wandering around in a bikini and a bin bag witha pair of pink wellies just because you can get away with wearing just about anything (or nothing even)! So, a crowd of reserved Taiwanese rockers, with a few crazy foreigners thrown in. A Taiwan take on one of my favourite things about summer in the UK, it was interesting to see. The was a lot ...

..Oh yeah, on our way to Japan, our plane made a stop in Taiwan. We didn't do much more than go to the bathroom there, but hey, our feet touched flooring, so we visited their country. One more notch in the belt for us, one more pin on the map... Now back to our actual adventure....