just-a-stranger. Get yours at flagrantdisregard.com/flickr 曼妮愛台灣 MANI LOVES TAIWAN: November 2005

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

川湯入口 

到了冬天在台北是一定要去北投泡湯的啊

而且我們每次都是去同一家餐廳點幾乎一樣的菜

只限天使會員加入

we love to do hotspring during winter at the Beitou area
which features HOT SPRING over the mountains/hills

we always head to same restaurant and almost order same food

café's members only!

one night at café La vie rêvée des anges


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Originally uploaded by justastranger.

my fav. café in town

queena molly dai


Tien Mu area(little la in taipei) 忠誠及天母東路口(Jeung Chen road & tienmu east road)

you can call it Tien Mu or Tian Mou or Tian MU

it’s really complicated spelling here in taipei,but when you talk to people, they will show you how to go.

it has taipei american school(TAS),and japanese school. more laid-back than downtown taipei city.

It also closes to Tamsui(riverside suburban area features with beautiful sunset & historical sites & fishman’s wharf as SF) & Beitou(hotspring) in 20 mins, if you have time you can do jogging or hiking to it’s back mountain.

There are many public parks in this area,quite westernized & have many different cuisines to taste, you can also go to national park “yangmingshan” in 10 mins” by driving, or 30 from the trail to the mountain.

It has department stores, Eslite bookstore(taiwanese leading bookstore) & Warner Village theater, 2 super markets,baseball stadium etc. if you are into baseball, it’s quite cheap to watch in taipei, watcing the game facing the mountain & hills is quite unique.

In taipei, only Tien Mu, BeiTou, Tamsui area has good living standard, other area would be like NY,HK..too busy & crowded & noisy during night, cos Taipei famous with the night life.

If you have free time, just jump into MRT in 15 mins you can reach Tamsui, that’s the place

Tamsui


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Originally uploaded by justastranger.
i love it, cos i spent almost 30 years here

this place…hum….hard to describe
it has many artists living here, it has good transportation system(mrt), universities, cafes, arts, old houses, antiques shop, food, local specialties, souvenir shops all over

there were occupied by many countries before, english, spanish, dutch, french….cos it was the major harbour of northern Taiwan,it was a little fishing town with beautiful sunset & historical sites, now it’s popular for half day visitors

now is the most frequent weekend getaway place for taipei city people during weekend, if you were been to florence or any famous touristing city before, you will know Tamsui is just the same as one of them
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packed
it’s always over-crowded, please don’t come here during weekend, otherwise i’ll have to move to Beitou or other countryside….

have a good trip in tamsui, remember to pick one good café and sit down watching sun going down to the horizon, ciao

it’s the cafe i go a lot—Café: La vie rêvée des anges (The dream life of the angels café)

visit my flickr as follows

café photos set(this is my FAV. cafe in tamsui, the only place can do coffee, i promise, otherwise i can pay for you if it doesn’t taste gdoo)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/justastranger/sets/701059/

Tamsui photos set
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justastranger/sets/681757/

sunset photos set

蘭嶼 Lan Yu island(Orchid island)

十一月在台灣的冬天去了一次蘭嶼
今年終於成行

我很喜歡那有粉紅色的天空
這在漁人村的小沙灘拍的

旅記一

我和Corazon 要去蘭嶼了..

會坐火車 自強號 NT 800

到台東 先到 老外的店民宿 (Gringo) 住一晚再於三早上搭船 希望風不要太大..船會開...

現在怪得很 什麼飛機 船等資料都很久以前的資料...

只得人直接殺去是最快的.
不然佇在家裡打電話上網挺煩的.


老外的店--tel--089--355-565
email: amigopub@bigfoot.com

add: No.52, Shing Sheng Rd, Taitung, Taiwan 

旅記二
好不容易離開了台東殺到機場坐第一班的飛機到了蘭嶼
用了三小時 (應是二小時可以騎機車環島。。但我和心心太愛停下來欣賞美景及拍照)
到了一家目前休息的咖啡店
老闆娘 charlene & 老闆海安真是太熱情了
免費開放他們店讓我們休息
拍照及訪問(我的職業病)
先看看他們的站吧
我以後和心愛的人也要在南歐或台灣的海邊開一家店來玩玩

蘭嶼無餓不坐---島嶼的普羅旺斯 The Epicurean cafe

熱情有有特色的咖啡廳 老闆還會提供民宿介紹等
真希望他們有自己民宿

http://epicureanpub.myweb.hinet.net/

http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/news/charlene77/

photo album
http://photo.pchome.com.tw/epicurean77/
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