Taiwan 🇹🇼

At 7:00 the hotel staff knocks on our door: breakfast is served on our sunny terrace in front of our holiday house. Sandwiches, tea, coffee and milk. What a life! We enjoy a peaceful breakfast before chasing butterflies and birds in the garden. Cleo and Zeno find three swings and play with a ball. We…

After Tims morning photo session to capture the beautiful scenic views of Sun Moon Lake, with it’s morning fog and the surrounding mountains in 50 shades of grey, we leave our hotel at 7:00 to rent a bike across the road at the Giant Centre to cycle around the lake, the largest body of water…

The perks of travelling with young kids: waiting in your hotel room, while all your bags are packed, until breakfast starts at 7:30. Luckily, nobody is hurt at breakfast this morning and we can leave Yilan at 8. Today was supposed to be the highlight of our trip. Riding through the stunning Taroko Gorge up…

We wake up to the sound of rain on the roof of our room, so no need to get up yet and we all close our eyes again. At 6.30 the rain has stopped and Tim goes for a quick photo trip in the area. He shoots some waterfalls and a huge abandoned iron smelter…

There is no time for a special breakfast on mothers day, as we have to check out and start our Taiwanese road trip as early as possible now that our rental car (a Nissan station car) is parked around the corner of our Taipei apartment. Moreover, we’re not too sad to leave the cockroach house.…

Hooray, today is Buddha’s birthday. We will celebrate it by visiting six temples. But not before Tim leaves at 5 to take some morning pictures of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. Tim is back at 8, and after breakfast and a shower, we leave for our first temple: Taipei Confucius Temple. It’s the first temple to…

Our night sleep could have been better, as the Taipei city lights shine bright into our apartment. At 5:30, Tim decides the night is over, and packs his bag to leave for some morning light in the mangroves. It’s a 40 minute metro ride to Hongshulin where you can walk through the mangrove along the…

We wake up in our villa at 6. Luckily, Olga feels like herself again and the rest of the family did not get sick. We have breakfast and pack our bags, Olga tears another trouser, and we leave the appartement at 9.45. We aim to take the train to Taipei at 11, but reserving the…

We wake at 5.00 as it’s already light and our internal clock thinks it’s time to get up. We try to delay breakfast a bit to reset our clock but at 6.30 we are too hungry to wait any longer. We enjoy our oatmeal once more and get ready for the day. Since yesterday evening,…