I just spended my whole weekend driving around with the rotary crew all of a sudden. An unforgettable experience I must say. Let me explain to you why.
First of all, Taiwanese people are crazy about karaoke. So when I got onto the tourbus and took my seat, I suddently found out that the vehicle was a driving karaoke bar. Unfortunately for me, my seat was just on top of the subwoofer.
This was not the only television, as you can see on the follow picture, the whole bus was pretty well equipped:
There were also a few very old english songs. I tried to sing Last Christmas with Joni, but the idiots who made the music for the karaoke-track on that one couldn't hold the rythm so we failed pretty bad. Just afterwards, we took another song, which is far superior: Sting and the Police with Every Breath You Take, and the whole bus applauded noisily when it was done. I think I did so-so, but of course that doesn't matter when it's the first time the people hear the famous white-haired european sing karaoke.
Okay, a lot of pictures are going to be in this post, so prevent it from being too spammy, I'm going to break it up here. Click into it to read on, really!
Just like ideal gas, there is also ideal bike. So we went and had a look at it.
An organic house, which is not just a traditional chinese house, but also built without any nails.
Goose eggs for everyone to grab. Caution: Extremely salty.
On the way to our destination, we visited a very famous seafood restaurant.
Sashimi---! Is often eaten as a appetizer.
Crab meat. This time fresh, and so ware the crabs shell, so not many seconds after this was served you could hear bonking sounds coming from all around the room. People just put it right onto the table and starts to smash it with something - usually a bowl. It makes quite a mess, but people make sure to collect the bigger parts of shell into bowls. The meat was very delicious.
This some very fine fish. Not something you can eat at any place. It tasted really good actually, slightly sour, but really just worth a try. Infortunately I'm not one to catch on the names of foods yet.
Coconut cake. This thing was actually sweet. Quite amazed I am.
And then we drove on to a very fine resort where I suddenly had a lot of people around me who wanted to talk with me, so I barely did anything else while there. We only stayed there for one night, but I still have a lot to cover. I have many more pictures to show you, but that's going to be in the blogpost tomorrow.
I can just say, I am doing great, and I have a lot to tell about this trip. But I am super tired right now. Two days of pretty much nonstop karaoke is hard on you.