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Taiwan Days 9 and 10 Kenting, Cijin Island and Kaohsiung.

We got up relatively early and went hunting for some fruit. We found a stall with ladies selling mangos. Christine tried to buy one mango, but the ladies insisted that it was 3 mangos for 100NT, then they gave her two extra for free, so we ended up with a truck load of enormous delicious…

6 days ago January 7, 2026 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Chinese, Travel Taiwan.

Taiwan Days 7 and 8 Kaohsiung, Love River Cruise and Kenting

This had been designated as a bit of a rest day. We slept in for a bit and then had a bit of a think about what we were going to do. We planned to go to the gym, collect some food to cook up for breakfast and lunch and to meet up with the…

December 15, 2025 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Chinese, Languages, Travel Taiwan.

Taiwan Days 5 and 6 Taichung, Mt Bagua Great Buddha Statue, Kaohsiung, Rainbow Village, Lotus Pond and The Dome of Light.

The journey to Taichung  Christine and I woke up early we showered and got organised, wrote in our journals and then did our Duolingo. The others had not risen, so we headed out to have some breakfast at, Gan Mai Alley, the restaurant from yesterday morning. We ate some dumplings, omelet and another steamed bread…

October 20, 2025 in Adventure, Languages, Travel Taiwan.

Taiwan Days 3 and 4 Taipei, Ximen district, Shilin Night Market, Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial, Taipei 101, Xiangshan and Ningxia Night Market

We got up at 4:45 and started getting ready. We managed to set off an alarm on the front door as we were leaving.Thankfully after leaving it for a bit we were able to re enter the code and silence the alarm before the national guard turned up to arrest us.  We walked to Nezu…

October 6, 2025 in Adventure, Chinese, Languages, Study Chinese, Travel Taiwan.

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