The center piece of the park is the Japanese style Pavilion in the middle of lake, built in 1908 during the Japanese occupation period of Taiwan. The revisit of the park bring back my memory when visiting the park for the first time as a […]
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Keelung Cheng-Bing (正濱漁港) Fishing Port
The row of colorful painted house at this little fishing port near Keelung reminded me Bergen, Norway.
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
I am visiting my hometown, Kaohsiung, a southern Port City in Taiwan. Twin Pagoda Towers at Lotus Pond has always the landmark of the city. There are still portion of the city wall built in the 1800’s around Zuooying near Lotus Pond remains. The South […]
Mijas, Malaga, Spain
We arrived back to mainland Spain after the tour of Madeira Island, Portugal. The first port stop was Malaga but as it turned out was our last stop before concluding our cruise at Barcelona. It was due to the unusual high wind the Captain had […]
Madeira (Funchal), Portugal Island
We arrived in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal after tour three Spanish Canary Islands. The morning sun shining on the harbor and portion of the white houses on the hillside was simply gorgeous. We knew it’s going to be a splendid day to see the surroundings of […]
La Orotava, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands
We made three port stops in Canary Islands, namely, Arrecife, Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. While in Santa Cruz de Tenerife we took a shore excursion for a walking tour of the town of La Orotava, a beautiful town with narrow winding cobblestone […]
Casablanca, Morocco
After a whole day of sailing at sea we arrived at our first port stop Casablanca of our 11-day cruise trip. You may remember an old Oscar Best picture movie “Casablanca” starred by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. But there are more attractions other than […]
Barcelona, Spain
We travelled to Barcelona, Spain three weeks ago and from there started an 11-day cruise with port stops at Casablanca, Morocco, Canary Islands, Madeira and back to Malaga and Barcelona. We stayed near Plaza of Espanya and was able to walk to the National Art […]
Holiday Lights in Downtown Frederick
During the year-end holiday season each year downtown Frederick becomes so brightly alive with splendid light decoration on two main street, Market and Patrick Streets. There are people coming for Christmas shopping, for dinner at any of many good restaurants, for concert at music hall […]
“Sailing Through Winter Solstice” Display
Carroll Creek Linear Park runs through the heart of downtown Frederick. In the summer time (April through October) there are beautiful water plants such as water lilies, lotuses, etc. display along with koi and ducks. In the past several years, under the theme of “Sailing […]
First Snowfall in Frederick and Morning After….
We got our first major snowfall (3 inches) in Frederick last Thursday (Nov 15) that was a bit earlier than normal. I went to Carroll Park near downtown Frederick to take some pictures during the heavy snow fall. The next morning it was sun […]
