We've been having a great time in Taipei. It's got great food and there's always an adventure! We found out google maps is completely worthless here, (can't find streets in pinyin, only chinese characters, gets confused, etc.) so it's a good thing we have students to help point us in the right direction. Of course that means going anywhere takes five times as long but I'm sure we'll get quicker with time. The humidity is BAD. I've never felt anything quite like it but we're getting used to it.
Taipei at night.
We went to this great noodle place yesterday, the Taipei 101, a huge bookstore (but bookstores have sort of lost their luster since they only have about 5 English books in the whole place 4 of them being the Twilight series) and just generally enjoyed our last day in Taipei. It's been raining, but not the downpour it was on Wednesday and Thursday.
Shane's been a BIG help showing us around.
Delicious Noodles.
Taipei 101. Tallest building in the world for about 3 years I believe.
Just because we're in Taiwan doesn't mean we're totally deprived of American food. There's still Subway, McDonald's, Starbucks, Haagen Daz, Morton's Steakhouse, Costco, Pizza Hut, IKEA, and Hard Rock Cafe among others. But no, it's not the same.
Captivated by Deathly Hallows trailer. November 18th!!!
Halloween decorations in Taipei
Real time display of which toilets are occupied in the women's restrooms. The men's restroom did not have this. Generally bathrooms have been fine in Taiwan. Usually they have alternating squat vs. western toilets with pictures on the door and usually they have toilet paper. One even had a heated seat and a whole lot of other buttons I had no idea what they were.
Today (Saturday) we are headed by bus to Taichung (about a 2 1/2 hour ride but apparently the buses are really nice here with TV's and comfy seats so it's better (and a LOT cheaper) than taking the high speed rail). We are going apartment hunting and job hunting!
Mmmm, the noodles look good! I'm so glad you are enjoying it. It's great that Rico has old students to show you around.
ReplyDeleteGood luck traveling down to Taichung and starting your searches!
P.S. The bathroom display looks confusing!
Haha, no the display was pretty simple actually. Green for open red for occupied, the colors came out kind of weird on the pic though. We decided to come back to Taipei. Transportation in Taichung was terrible and the streets took forever to get through.
ReplyDeletePLUS Taichung was less modern than Taipei. And when I say less modern I mean more squatty potties (which are my archnemesis), still can't figure out how to use the damn things.