When we lived in Taipei for a few months, I learned where the stores and open markets were to be able to buy ingredients, then cook food that we were used to. It was fun to go out to restaurants about once a week (a lot of the local neighborhood establishments were inexpensive), but it […]
Stair Repeats on Elephant Mountain in Taipei
If you think stair repeats are boring, you haven’t done them on Elephant Mountain. You can find it to the east of Taipei, part of a system of trails on 4 mountains. And I’d be surprised if you want to or need to repeat anything. There are several access points to the trail. We approached from […]
Helpless Female Turns Right in Taipei
I wandered all around Taipei last week by myself. This worried my husband, but since I made it back every evening, he began to relax. I walked several miles around the hotel, down to the river and the fabric market, and regularly to the local Cold Stone Creamery…to practice ordering in Chinese! I made it […]
Walking Greg’s Bike Back Home – Helpless Female Lost in Taipei
Greg’s bike has been at a police station since Wednesday morning. They were nice enough to take it into protective custody after he crashed. Today there was opportunity to schedule picking it up. An officer had kindly written the station address on a piece of paper, in Chinese, for a potential taxi driver. With that […]
The Real Fabric Market in Taipei Taiwan
If you appreciate sewing at all then a few pictures is about all you will need. The only thing I need to say is that the whole main floor of fabric vendors is the size of a floor of a department store in a mall. Each vendor has a space jam-packed with goods, with a […]