While in Taichung, I went to visit a little local park they simply call “Folk park”. It’s an old Taiwanese residence, I think, a bit like Lin Family House up in Taipei, featuring…
Chinese style garden and ponds…
Chinese style architecture restaurant, temple and shopping center …
A folk museum…
and a huge Chinese style living accommodation…
Outside, [...]
A short while after coming back to Taiwan, I went to see Taichung for the first time. I’ve heard so much about Taichung being “the most livable city in Taiwan” that I was really curious what it would be like. As for tourist attractions – on the way there I asked a friend in the [...]
A few weeks back, before leaving Israel, I was quite surprised to see what a “Jewish Blogger Conference” was when I entered it. I really felt like an outsider and in the first few minutes contemplated leaving and giving the whole thing a miss, but sticking around had its benefits and I got to see [...]
One of the first positive culture shocks I encountered in Taiwan had to do with restaurant culture. Everyone eats out, all the time, with an endless variety of restaurants of all kinds, ranging from street dirt-cheap to the most expensive 5 star restaurants (at least in Taipei, in Tainan they’re a little bit harder to [...]
Israel, as usual, is highly optimistic, and the Chinese tourists are the just what the sleepy tourism market in Israel needs to reinvent itself.
Ynet has more on the issue with “The Chinese are coming” (The Hebrew article can be found here) :
According to new agreement, Israel to be approved by Chinese government as [...]
Probably among the most relaxing things to watch.
This is from my trip to the east coast, near Chishang – famous for its quality rice. Absolutely gorgeous. I love the endless rice fields in Taiwan’s country side, laid out in stunning valley scenery between tall mountains.
(Mark feel the same way)
I have no idea what my English sounds like, it might be terrible. Yet, I’d like to quickly point out something in common for some of the non-native in English, especially teachers, that sometimes makes it very difficult for me to concentrate listening. Interestingly enough, some of those issues also hold true for some Israelis [...]
The typhoon’s here, and although Tainan somehow manages to escape all major weather annoyances of the island, there’s still a lot of rain that makes it a bit more difficult for the Taiwanese to express their inner selves with artistic BBQing.
But, not to worry, if we can’t do it outdoors, we’ll BBQ it indoors… in [...]
