On the 28th of December at 7:50, Ed parents Alice and Tony arrived at Kaohsiung Airport. Despite it being the end of December, Alice and Tony seemed to be delighted with Kaohsiung's winter weather, not surprising since they had come from cold and frosty England. We escorted them to their hotel, near Kaohsiung Main Station, dropped their stuff off and headed up north to have some food and a drink.
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| Tony and Alice on the MRT! |
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| Plus Ed at Beer Belly. |
They bought us a late Christmas!
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| Crackers and everything! |
My parents had sent our presents to Tony and Alice so they could bring them to Taiwan. I got a Kindle and Ed got some awesome head-phones! Thank you!
For their first weekend they stayed in Kaohsiung and took them to Dream Mall.
We had Teppanyaki, it was yummers! (as you can see, they literally take the raw ingredients, like beef or pork plus the veg, and fry it on these massive hot griddle. Pretty cool to watch!) Ed had wild boar!
After lunch we went SHOPPING! but more importantly, we took Alice (Tony hates heights) up to the roof to show her the amazing amusement park/fun fair...
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| A child 'zorbing' on a pool! on a roof... |
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| Air hockey! Alice's favorite! |
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| Dodgy (!!!) pedal powered machine that took you round a section of the roof... eeeeek! |
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| Pretty high! |
That evening was New Years Eve! We took them to our favorite restaurant near Central Park. We ate beef-fried rice, 5-piece chicken, cabbage and bacon and some pork.
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| Happy New Year!! |
On Sunday we visited Cijin Island to catch the sunset.
But first we had to catch the ferry!
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| Tuntex Sky Tower or 85 Building in the middle |
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| Monkey Mountain! |
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| Fun fishes! |
We got to the sea shore just in time for sunset over the South China Sea
We then had a look around...
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| Peruvian musicians |
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| This was an extremely long fish market... but just full of dried fish. And to be honest, it stunk! So we quickly had a look and then left! |
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| Some of the dried fish you can buy! |
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| One of the temples we saw. |
Ed and I managed to get some time off work, so we all headed down to Kenting!!
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| Super lush! |
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| Arcade!! |
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| The first sunset on the beach. |
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| Larkin' around on the beach! |
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| This is the view from our room. |
On our first night we went down the main high street and had some dinner
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| Tony looking slightly crazy... |
Day two:
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| AHHH the beach. |
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| The infinity pool and water spa! |
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| Having just been for a dip in the sea! |
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| Kenting High St |
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| Tony at Ocean Blue... a bit too much rice 'ey?! |
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| Blue Ocean restaurant |
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| My banana split! |
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| Eating it!! |
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| Sun set |
Day three:
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| Anyone of croquet?! |
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| Find the spelling mistake... |
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| The Sea View elevator! |
Kenting was brilliant, we had such a good time! Can't wait to go back!
While I was back at work, Ed took Tony and Alice to the Lotus Pond.
The next day we headed to the city of Tainan, just north of Kaohsiung.
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| On the High Speed Rail to Tainan |
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| The Confucius Temple |
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| Turtle pond! Complete with a dead one... (bottom left) |
We finished Alice's and Tony's visit with a trip to Conways restaurant to eat a traditional British roast lunch:
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| Yummy! |
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| Ed tucking in! |
Thanks for reading!
Happy New Year!! xx
