Shangrira Paradise Miao-li
No.156-3 Rugushan, Zaociao Township Miao-li, Taiwan
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An Amazing "Carolyn Weekend"
... most nights have this week, headed to the Jazz Festival in People's Park, had some delicious chicken curry, and just hung out with some friends. Then my wonderful partner in crime Vicky agreed to letting me "drag"(but totally not drag:) ) her to the Refuge for Reggae night. We headed up to the mountains and spent the rest of the night surrounded by incredible people and even better music. Every time I go to the Refuge I realize how it is definitely my favorite ...
The Pros and Cons of Lost in Translation
... typhoon days" where nobody goes out or to work except for people who work in 7-11 convenience stores.
At times it is our own language that gets lost in translation as Tania yells "we've won" when she was checking the lottery tickets. We have a huge pile of lottery tickets because Taiwan has come up with a system to prevent tax evasion whereby every receipt from a retailer has a number on it which goes into a national lottery draw. ...
Making a Dogs Day - Lantern Festival 2011
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Taiwan and is the year of the Rabbit, so we are now surrounded by a bunch of bunnies. Each year at the end of the Chinese New Year there is a Lantern Festival where people make their year's wishes on a lantern and send it into the sky to be decided by fate. This was an Asian tradition I was determined to see.
My friends Heidi and Eric (aka: Boss) went with me to Miaoli (pronounced MeowLi) to see this. We set out early Saturday ...
Day trip
Driven here by Josefina´s uncle, was nice to get into countryside - more interesting food such as quails eggs on a stick, and some stodgy thing. Am a bit sick of sweet red beans now. Pleasant views and quant buildings. Then we went to Jingusashi which is an old Japanese mining town, which again was interesting for a couple of hours. Then back to ...
Random Picture Time
Not a lot to talk about with this entry, but we have a lot of random pictures to post. We did survive Typhoon Fanapi, it was mostly super windy but surprisingly not that rainy. It was however a boring weekend being cooped up in our apartment!
Wednesday is Moon Festival which seems to be very similar to our Labor Day, not a lot going on except a day off work and BBQ's. Since we don't have a grill we are going on an Outdoor Adventure Tour of Taichung-should be ...



