Another eBid Cap 'n Tee trip on the cards?

[Oldandintheway]

Final Tianxiang & back to Hualien B&B

TX5

Formosan Rock Macacque at Taroko Gorge

Civit "POO" coffee - not worth the AUD $7+

Confluence creating the Liwu River (reason for the Taroko Gorge)

Hualien "chick" pick-up park!

Don't like Bro's chances here!

Amethyst Geodes at Hualien B&B (collected by "Auntie")

Ditto - WOW noiyce!


till next adventure folks!

[meebo1]

I am glad I was sitting down. Amazing views, but I have a problem with heights

[sucadot]

It knocks Cheddar Gorge into the shade!

[Anniemcc2]

Wonderful pictures.

[Oldandintheway]

Morning all - re - episode 11th March

Slight technical hitch today as I'm unable to open Bro's pix ATM
Don't know at which end the problem lies, but could be because I'm such a luddite
Have asked Bro to check it out, but never ye fear, I'll catch up ASAP
Sorry to disappoint with this issue today!

[Oldandintheway]

Well here we go with report of the day, after the interweb decided to behave itself! (I have NO idea what happened earlier?)

11^th March
Hualien County, Taiwan
A lazy day today with two Temple visits and the successful purchase of train tickets for our trip back to Taipei tomorrow, via the 7/11 vending machine.
I think you can pretty much head straight to the photo's.
Cheers.

Hualien & breakfast

Proof of a sunny day

Possible earthquake damage?

View from a Hualien bridge looking west

Karen-ko Shrine (built in 1915)

KKS1

The rare dog-walrus!

The rare yellow mossy stump (or, beyond the!) Oz joke!

Hello sailor (man! that boat must have been moving fast!)

Certain earthquake damage!


cont. over:

[Oldandintheway]

On we go to the Temple to the Lords of the 3 Mountains (3M hereafter)

3M

3M1

3M2

3M3

3M4

3M5 Boo!

3M6 - These butterflies are killer!

3M7 - Attack of the killer flutterby's

3M8

Put it in the luggage


cont. over:

[Oldandintheway]

So! - on to the Martyr's Shrine (MS hereafter) & Lunch

MS - built in the 1980's

View over Hualien from MS

MS1 - Bro says HE should be in there!

A very familiar hefalant

If I EVER drink that much - somebody shoot me!

Ditto - nightmare!

Lunch at our new favourite spot

Crispy skin chicken hamburgers in a basket! = Yumo!

Where to find them - 17th St. Hualien

The source of the sauce!


hope tomorrows issue works OK: - Enjoy!

[Oldandintheway]

Hi all - just a small report today as explained by Bro
Sadly the trip is quickly coming to an end - Where did that 2 weeks go???

12^th March 2018
Shuanglian, Taiwan

Sorry Folks, not much happened on the 12th. I doubt even relatives will bother much with this report. Relatives especially even.
We did say farewell to Hualien and, as a result, spent much of the day getting ready for the train trip, travelling on the 229klm train trip and finding our way back to the Dong Wu Hotel after the train trip.

A lovely dinner at a local 'greasy chopsticks' - pork dumplings and egg & spinach soup.
We chose these items for dinner as earlier in the trip someone kindly wrote these two dishes on a piece of paper for us in Mandarin.
Now, whenever we can't read a menu we just hand over the note and, hey presto, dinner!

For those still reading - and because this post is quite boring - I will tell you a quick story wherein I humiliate myself.

When we were in Taichung I had occasion to be using a public dunny for peeing purposes.
Glancing around I noticed a small red lever on the wall - which I immediately operated.

It transpires this sets off a very loud, very public alarm which alerts the Authorities that someone inside said dunny was experiencing a serious emergency of some kind - presumably a quite personal kind.

'Oh dear' says I, 'There's no-one else in view to blame, and simply running out the door might look incriminating, so I'll just pretend nothing out of the ordinary is happening'.
A reasonable plan but not very effective- when the five (!) different staff Members rushed into the toilet there was, of course, only one person there, washing his hands.
Ciao.

Breakfast at "Good Breakfast" Hualien

Evening in Hualien

HU1

Waiting area Hualien TSR standard type rail station (no HSR service yet on the east coast)

Taipei street scene (TSS hereafter)

TSS1

TSS2 - there's a river behind & below the wall

TSS3 - if vans were dogs, this is a Pug!


1 or 2 reports to come Perhaps before the home-bound leg!

[meebo1]

All I can say 'Thank You'