Month: June 2013

Cycling Taiwan

Post author By debondad
Post date 19 June 2013
Categories In Asia, Cycling, Taiwan, Travel

Cycling is a great way to sightsee, and the conditions in Taiwan for cycling are absolutely fantastic! We’ve done a bunch of day and few-day rides since arriving. Sometimes we bring the GoPro, and Mike stitched together this:

Dragon Boat Festival

Post author By debondad
Post date 13 June 2013
Categories In Asia, Taiwan, Travel

Yesterday was the Dragon Boat Festival. We headed down to the harbour at Nanliao to eat some zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) and watch some of our friends compete in the day’s races. Mike put together a video of some of the action. Have a look!

Take me out to the ball game!

Post author By debondad
Post date 4 June 2013
Categories In Asia, Taiwan, Travel

Baseball’s a popular sport in Taiwan, and on Thursday we got out to see a CPBL (Chinese Professional Baseball League) game! There are four teams which rotate play through 12 stadiums across the island. The number of games at each stadium is weighted by population, and Hsinchu’s stadium has 10 scheduled games (out of 240 […]