Day 97 Taipei, Taiwan
The alarm woke Steve and I at 5.30 am so we could get our bags packed, eat some cereal and wake children. Goodbye to our cool little flat in HK and we stepped out onto the street to hail a taxi. The...
View ArticleDay 98 Taipei 101
We all slept like logs after a busy day travelling the day before from HK to Taiwan. The hotel breakfast was a simple affair of Western toast or Asian congee. Harris enjoyed the cooked corn cobs and...
View ArticleDay 99 National Taiwan Science Education Centre
Today we headed off to the Science Centre at the request of the boys. We easily found our way from the hotel to Ximen train station to catch a train to Jiantan station and then caught the Red 30 bus to...
View ArticleDay 100 Internet issues and drenched in Danshui!
We awoke to a wet wet day and the issue of finding more internet access since our 24 hour pass had expired. We did have thoughts of going to the Taipei Zoo and the nearby Maokong Gondola but the...
View ArticleDay 101 National Palace Museum and wash day
One of the premier attractions in Taipei is the National Palace Museum. I was super keen to see it but not everyone was as enthused! Harris decided that accompanying me with the chance of including a...
View ArticleDay 102 East Coast of Taiwan adventure
I had read on the Taiwan travel site, www.taiwan.net.tw about Taroko Gorge and the surrounding area and decided that it was worth paying the money to go on an organised tour from Taipei for two days....
View ArticleDay 103 Taroko Gorge is gorgeous!
The Marshal Hotel does a mean buffet breakfast. In our travels so far we haven’t seen anything like it! Four long sections of tables set up, one with fruits; one with cereal, toast, juice and milk;...
View ArticleThings I’ve seen on a motorbike by Harris
I’ve been in Asia for 4 months and have been to Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. There are millions of people on motorbikes in these countries because they are...
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