Da-An Park in the city center of Taipei is like Central Park in New York City. There are many hiking trails, play ground, roller skating rink, flower gardens but the most attractive place is the small lake with island and trees in the middle of […]
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City Park in Taichung, Taiwan
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 […]
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 […]
Dunes of Maspalomas, Las Palmas, Canary Islands
While at the port of call of Las Palmas the morning sun was fantastic, we decided to hire a taxi to go to the Dunes of Maspalomas. It did not disappoint us as we hiked up to the top of sand dunes and enjoyed the […]
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 […]
Canada Geese at Blackwater NWR, Cambridge, MD
On our recent tour to the National Wildlife Refuges in the Eastern Shore, Blackwater NWR was our last stop on the way home. It is known to have lots of Canada geese for the winter, sure enough we did witness many in various pools and […]
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