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Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Taipei Day 1 free and easy : Danshui Melange cafe and shilin

Took the HSR from Chaiyi to Taipei

At the train station, topping up our youyou card or ezlink card

Our complimentary youyou card from Taiwan Tourism Board.
Can visit the Taiwan Tourism board in Singapore before travelling, gifts may differ.


Behind our hotel,  at Zhongshan station there is a famous dessert store 米朗琪咖啡館MELANGE CAFÉ. Need to queue like half an hour before getting a seat. 
However, they have a number system which means you can shop around while waiting for your turn.
The food was good, not very sure is because we were starving that day. The price was not cheap, just average as it come up to tw1210 (sg60) but we did ordering quite a lot of things.
The best item should be the waffles with the strawberries..










It started to rain and it was very cold at Danshui,淡水. The place seems like a ghost town at night. Maybe because it was raining and it was 8pm. We took a bus to Danshui and 

took a train to Danshui lao jie before walking to the train station.



This can also be found at shilin.

Danshui lao jie 淡水老街
The place to snack. The grilled scallops was good and cheap with a lot of interesting flavour.
We tried a muay chee made from milk, it was interesting and not cheap.



Danshui lao jie 淡水老街





We took the train to Shilin market because it was the night is still young and it was near to Danshui





A lot of food. Eat what you like. Eat till you can eat no more. 
There are games stall for people who need the exercise after all the food.


Snake!!

always amazed to see Singapore food overseas.
some of the food does not seems to be from singapore.


There is shopping to be done too.
Took a cab back as it was after midnight and there was not train available.


London: free and easy night walk

 We took a night using the same route as our free walking tour..

 Admiralty Arch



 Big Ben



The London eye at night.

Desserts

Taiwan Taichung Fengjia 逢甲夜市

Welcome to Taiwan

 Taoyuan Airport



Ubus ticket to the HSR station. just follow to signs and walk to the counter.
We collect our HSR ticket at the second or floor, prebook as it is much cheaper.
We also bought a 3G sim card at the airport. Just walk left and you will see a few counter. Bought the 7-days unlimited internet.
Remember to ask them to activate the card for you before you leave. It will be troublesome to call and activiate.
There are several different packages for unlimited 3G internet for 7 days, it costs 500 NTD around 20+ sgd.We decide to stay at Taichung for the night as it was too late to travel to Alishan as we arrived at 7pm. Took a train to taichung . We wanted to visit Taichung is because we heard about how interesting fengjia night market is.

Tomato Hostel. Very big spacious. There is a living room.
We took a free shuttle bus from HSR to fengjia market, the bus took around 30-45mins and  we walked 10-15 minutes to tomato hostel. 

 Some of the food at fengjia.
There are so much food to eat!
Some shopping too.
However, it was a weekday so it was not very crowded.
convenience store


Breakfast catering mostly to students who study at fengjia university

Fengjia university

 Our free HSR shuttle bus to HSR to take HSR station to catch our train to Alishan (Chiayi)

London free and easy : shopping HArrods convent gardens

starbucks was having 50% off when we were in London


 Models at Harrods










 The food at Harrods




 Convent Gardens
Cath kidston and lot of brands are located there.
In the supermarket

Trying out Italian food in London