Leofoo Taipei

So once again, my craze for visiting temples have resurfaced. For those of you who are not remotely interested in temples, I suggest you tune out now and perhaps come back when I start to talk about the food. Because I uploaded too many photos last night, that took forever and so I didnt go to bed till quite late, and consequently I woke up rather late (9am). It took a while to get out of the apartment because I was so slow, and also because I was ...

... food. The food market was filled with people. I had to grab Jake's shirt and hold on while we navigated our way to a room with tables. We grabbed a table as soon as it was open and then headed out to the market to grab plates of food from the kitchen. I'm not exactly sure how it all works but I guess they just count the number of plates you have at the end to determine the final bill. It was a delicious lunch (as usual ...

... by far is for a Chicken-Fried Chicken stall. It has to be 30-40 people deep. Disappointed that it wasn't more interesting, we head back to the hotel to sleep. After the 1st day, I quickly realize there is no fitting in here. I have been stared at a number of times. Once by an older woman that stared at me for at least a minute. That feels weird. Alejandro's question rings again - are you sure you are ready? Guess I wasn't. Sleep will be good.

... After being there for about two hours, we got a cab back to the TGI Fridays that was by the hotel and met Mike and another guy from our Taipei office for a drink. The next day Mike had an extremely early flight and Liz and I made plans to go do some sightseeing around Taipei. Vincent picked us up in the morning and took us to the National Palace Museum This museum has over 70,000 items that were taken from the ...

... have six or seven hours to kill. So what to do? Well, if you really want to experience a new place, you have to see it on foot. Happily, taking a walking tour will also cost you nothing. Macau is walker-friendly in a way that very few parts of Taiwan have managed to become. Spacious, sanitary sidewalks, interesting architecture and lots of parks and greenery combine to make a stroll a relaxing experience. Your best bet is to head toward the Largo do Senado (the ...

... mch cardio when you're sick! LOL! Anyway...we took some wonderful pictures and basqued in nature's glory for some 30 minutes and then began our descent. On the way we saw 'gecko-on-a-stick' vendors. These lizards were gutted, cut in half and dried out and then tied to sticks for your eating pleasure. Nice. Meghan and I were thoroughly disgusted. We had some lunch at this little restaurant on the way back down and then had a nice 2 hour nap when ...

I spent my first night on a surprisingly comfortable rice mat. The beds in Asia are on the floor and they consist of a box-like structure (so you're not directly on the floor) and the rice mat. I had been worried that I would be very uncomfortable and not be able to sleep at all...but this was not the case. Upon waking up...I was approached by Meghan and April about going on a day-trip to this Geological Park not very far. I was jet-lagged as hell...but was not going to pass up an ...

... have never found on my own. For example, he told me that there was a 20% discount for buying a return train ticket as opposed to two separate single tickets - which I would have of course done; he showed me how to buy and use the transport pass, which can be used on both the buses and the metro (also discounted off of the normal cash price); and he showed me where to use the internet for free at the Taipei Main Railway Station - useful for checking my stock prices on the fly ...

... a difference from the people at work!! Anyway, they came to pick me up this morning - I nearly died when she told me to be ready to meet them at 7am! I was looking forward to a nice weekend lie in! I managed to drag myself out of bed, and even munched down some cereal. I did fall asleep again in the car though, waking up in random places on the drive. We drove past Taipei to Danshui (where I went with Anne a couple of months ago) and ...

After leaving Hualien with heavy hearts, Mike and I set out for a second round of Taipei. We took the three hour train ride back, read a whole bunch and made it to the train station by early evening. Sarah had given us the address and phone number of the hostel that she was destined to shortly before she left, so we made sure to go to the same place. Getting there was all right since the metro in Taipei is pretty intuitive and once we got out we had to find the lane the hostel ...