Category: Taiwan

Touring Taiwan

I finished work on Friday, and the very next day, Mike and I headed out on the next installment of our adventure in Taiwan: 我們騎自行車環島.  We are riding our bicycles around Taiwan! We started with the northern cross highway over the mountains to the East coast, and I’m currently sitting in a great B&B in […]

Dragon Boat Festival

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!

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 […]

Shrimp Fishing!

When you drive around the Hsinchu area, it is not uncommon to see many people sitting in lawn chairs around shallow, aerated concrete ponds. As it turns out, they are shrimp fishing, a popular pastime here! I’ve been intrigued by it for a while, and a friend just had his birthday party at a shrimp […]

Scootering in Taiwan

Mike bought a GoPro recently, and we used it to put together this perspective on scootering in Taiwan. He did the vast majority of the work, but I did some artistic consulting and sometimes the camera’s on my head too! Check it out. It is best viewed in 720p.

Cycling Weekend: Neiwan

With good weather forecast for the weekend and no hot water at home, we decided now was the time to go on our first overnight bike trip here in Taiwan. There’s something really satisfying about travelling away from home under your own power. We chose to head over to the relatively nearby mountain town of […]

Buying a Bike in Taiwan

One of the things we wanted to do in Taiwan was explore it by bicycle. We decided, being in the land of Giant and Merida, that we would buy some bikes to ride for the year (and potentially take back to Canada). We always like to pop into local bike stores when we travel, and […]

Happy New Year!

新年快樂 (Xīn Nián Kuài Lè)!  Happy New Year!  I had gotten myself into quite a bind about how to spend New Year’s Eve here in Taiwan.  Part of me wanted to go to Taipei to see the fireworks at Taipei101.  The pictures and videos I have seen in years past have been amazing, and to […]