Taipei on foot

Late start and quiet day, we're both feeling a bit under the weather with head colds, so we took a leisurely walk toward Zhongshan Station, one stop up the red line.

We first had to negotiate our way through the "Taipei Main Station Maze". The underground system of Taipei Main Station is so big and so complicated, with complex signs and meaningless exit codes, you could lose your way for hours - and that's how the locals describe it! We fell victim early, walked around for 15 minutes, then took an exit... to find ourselves still on the same side of the street as our hotel 😕

We finally found our way out and meandered to the station via a number of caches, arriving just in time to meet a fellow cacher for lunch - he is a German guy who travels the world caching at every opportunity (he's cached in 33 countries so far). We got in contact with him last night via the app and arranged to meet up... which also counts as a cache since he created an event!

We caught the train back and had a quiet afternoon before heading out for early tea. It's not quite as easy ordering from a street stall without a local to decipher for us. You'll see the result in the photos (It turned out ok... not what I thought we were getting, but ok!)Read more