One thing that both Shiz and I have always wanted to do was participate in a lantern festival, where scores of lanterns are released into the night air. There are places in Thailand and Vietnam that do this and the timing of our trip to Taiwan fortuitously coincided with the Tainwanese lantern festival. The festival …
Do yourself a favor and bring the family to a Parent Child Center. Taipei has 13 of them around the city for parents to give their children fun, interactive, educational experiences, all free of charge. That’s right, free! We visited the one Da’an, which blew both of us away. You’d never find anything like this …
This was my first time training in Taipei! I was very excited to see how things would be compared to the training that I’ve received in the US and Japan. I googled some “Aikido” and “合気道” to find dojos and this dojo seemed easy to reach with a good body of students. The dojo was …