Hello Taiwan!!

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Christmas! #9

Hi!

A bit late I know, but I thought you'd want to see how we spent Christmas.

On Christmas Eve we went out!

Later at Brickyard, where we met up with Dom.

Dancing around in the VIP section woo!

Dom did some DJing

Then Ed did some

I was LOVIN' it

Groupie?!

Taiwanese absolutely loving the dirty UK dubstep would you believe?!?

YES!!

Dan and Ed!

Happy Christmas!!

Feeling slightly wonky, we headed over to our friends Dom and Hazel's apartment for 2pm to have a traditional dinner! I was very excited! Ed and I had prepared some mashed potato and collected the roast potatoes and stuffing from the restaurant Conways (an excellent place that serves traditional British food). It was an extremely nontraditional Christmas, in that there was no stocking, no family, no presents to open, no cold weather... to be honest the whole thing was a bit of a daunting process. But to my surprise I didn't seem to mind what was missing, and had a brilliant day!

Dom and Hazels main room!

It was a beautiful day, and Dom and Hazel have the most magnificent view of the river:

We ate just before sunset, and wow, it was a feast of turkey (smoked!), roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, gravy, pigs in blankets, veg and stuffing! It was delicious!

The TURKEY!!!

Me eating the turkey and EVERYTHING else!!

Post dinner :(

Pudding! Fortunately there was no actual Christmas pudding, but someone had bought some delicious cinnamon rolls!! Yummy!!

Ah, it was a brilliant day!

Alice and Tony (Ed's parents) are visiting at the moment, so the next installment will be of their visit!

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

#8

HI!!

I got a camera! A very generous present from Ed's mother - thanks Alice! So now I can put some more photos of my time in Taiwan.

So it's Christmas day this Sunday, but the mall next door to us has had decorations up for months!

But it's not even that cold here, so it feels a bit odd...

We went to Taipei last weekend because Ed and Dom were asked to DJ at the club Revolver. Taipei is crazy! We were only there for the evening, but it had a real big city feel to it, like London. We took the HSR (High Speed Rail) up there... Which was loads of fun...

It took an hour and a half to there - 292 km per hour! So fast! We arrived at around 7pm and headed straight to the club for the sound check. We then went out for some food with some guys we met: Robi and Paul. They live in Taipei so they took us to a lovely little place for some dinner

We then headed back to the club where a reggae band called High Tide, who were so good!

Q-Kraft then played a set

Followed by the grimy Shank Dubs:

Ed made a friend!

Richie, a legend! From North London, one of the thickest London accents I've heard since we've been here, brilliant!

We left the club at about 5, and got the six hour coach journey back to Kaohsiung. Epic!

I got paid last week - happy days! Ed and I went on a bit of a shopping spree...

Only $200 (about £4) woo! It was so nice to spend some of the money that I had been earning! We also got a rooter, and a Christmas tree

It's very small, but so cute! For Christmas day we are going to our friends Hazel and Dom's apartment for the big dinner! Very excited! We are making some mashed potatoes... and don't worry, the roasted ones are being taken care of! The turkey has been ordered and will hopefully be singing some carols as well! Fortunately Christmas day is on a Sunday, otherwise we would be working...

Our friend Lexus, who we lived with during our first month, has just finished renovating a flat he bought to rent so we went to the house warming party. And the flat looked incredible! I had seen it before, and to be honest, I didn't really think anyone could make it livable! But he's done it! I'm so proud, well done mate!