Didn't get much sleep because the smelly fiance was still packing his luggage the night before till like 2am or so and we had to wake up at 530am to prepare to head to the airport! Raaaah love and hate morning flights, love getting to my destination earlier, hate that we gotta wake up so insanely early!
Hohoho, this time we had to bring 2 of our bigass luggages cos all the winterwear was extremely bulky, hahaha my luggage weight 19kg before even flying to taiwan. :x
Really can't stress enough that i'm absolutely not a light packer, hahah should have a challenge next time to pack 1 week luggage in a handcarry to see if i can stop myself from packing everything. Hahahah i'm the sort who rather have too much clothes to mix & match rather than not having.
Same goes to my makeup, toiletries, footwear, lingerie. LOL Leon was like giving me the "you're SO ridiculously nuts?!" face when he first carried my luggage into his car.
Went for breakfast at the Krisflyer lounge. Hmmm only the crossiant and toast is yummy! Hahaha but airport food what do you expect rightt
Heh relaxing while we're waiting to board the plane, bunnies say hello!
Super stoned no makeup face. Leon didn't wake me up early enough so I had to go barefaced. ):
Woooots plane is almost gonna take off and we're still instagramming!
YAY! HERE WE COME TAIWAN! LAND OF YUMMIES AND KAWAII PEOPLE AND 7-11!
Awwww hehe proudly declaring that his traveling with one family member. Ahem. Heh already?! Not yet hor! LOL He pretty much concussed before the plane took off, hahah it's hard for me to doze on when flying with SQ cos i always wanna catch all the movies/tv shows!
Watch this jappy drama with my favorite jap male actor and his favorite female jap actor lol.
Then i was watch the anima Wolf Children, very nice! But Krisworld got cut off while i was halfway thru it cos we were landing ugh! hate to not be able to complete watching my movie! Plus on my way back to SG i also forgot to watch! Wanted to watch it online when i'm back but i couldnt find it. ):
Anybody have any idea where to watch japanese anime movies? Comment and let me know if you have any idea alrighty? Thanks in advance!
Ahhhh airplane food. hahah veeeeery appetizing that I didn't even touch it hahaha infact i was throwing my rockhard butter-roll around..having fun and throwing it at leon and it just landed with a heavy THUD like a rock. -.-
Hello beautiful sea of clouds!
So cold it was frosting over!!! haha finaaaally landed and we exited the customs, turn left and that's the phone data plan company! We always get our data sim from 台湾大哥大.
Here's the rates! We took the 500NT plan which we can use up to 5 days with unlimited data. Plus we needed to make some local calls cos we would be meeting with leon's friends in our last leg of the trip in Taipei.
Usually from Taoyuan Airport 桃园机场 we would cab to taipei which would take about an hour, and about NT1000 is the usual rate to get to taipei city. You can also take the Freego Bus at the airport to get to Taipei City, waaaaay cheaper.
But this time round, we're heading to Taichung first instead!
It's my very first time to Taichung and I was having lots of mixed feelings about Taichung prior to my own planning, because I've always only heard great things about FengJia Night Market, so i always thought huh, take high speed rail ALL THE WAY JUST TO GO ONE NIGHT MARKET?!
FORGET IT TAIPEI GOT MORE NM WHAT! -.-
OH MAN HOW WRONG WAS I!!!! TAICHUNG IS AWESOME! Hahahah of course i will share why i feel it's so much better than taipei.
Also because it's faster to get to Taichung from Taoyuan Airport than from Taipei anyway, so here you go if you're planning to head to taichung and you have no idea how, the below will be very helpful! (:
When you get out of the customs, get your data sim, ask the phone company for the directions to take the UBUS to Taoyuan High Speed Rail -HSR.
[UBUS #705 (http://www.ubus.com.tw/ )
NT$30]
Find the counter, buy your NT$30 ticket and wait! The bus frequency is regular so there's not long wait required. We bought our ticket waited like 2 minutes and we were boarding the bus already.
United buses (service #705) serve Taoyuan International Airport and Taoyuan HSR station. Taoyuan HSR station (not in Taoyuan City) is about 7 km away from the Taoyuan International Airport.
Travel time: 15 to 20 mins.
Find the counter, buy your NT$30 ticket and wait! The bus frequency is regular so there's not long wait required. We bought our ticket waited like 2 minutes and we were boarding the bus already.
United buses (service #705) serve Taoyuan International Airport and Taoyuan HSR station. Taoyuan HSR station (not in Taoyuan City) is about 7 km away from the Taoyuan International Airport.
Travel time: 15 to 20 mins.
[High Speed Rail (http://www.thsrc.com.tw/en/) NT$540]
Alight UBUS at Taoyuan HSR Station, buy your HSR ticket from machine or from counter also can. Can choose which seats you want for the HSR. Enter gate with ticket and follow signage to South
Platform (not North Platform).
You can go to the website to check their train timing and even book tickets in advance too. FYI, they have early bird discounts up to 30% so if you're on a budget trip, you might want to book early to take advantage of the discount!
Travel Time: about 40 Minutes
When you get on the HSR, there are areas in the front and back of the train cabin that you can leave your luggage, remember to clip the strap on to strap in your luggages, you don't want to leave your luggage rolling around the train cabin and hurting anyone!
Time to relax again! Watching him played some silly billy game on his ipad lol. kinda weird but i'm never EVER obsessed with games, hahah really tooooo much things to do normally.
WE'RE HERE! Muahahah look at my manslave luggage both our hugeass luggages around lucky he has extra luggage allowance for SQ if not we're DEAD! Hahaha cabbed to our minsu in Taichung.
Our minsu is AWESOME. I think it's hands off the best minsu i've stayed in, in taiwan.
One that i definitely will return to stay in my next trip to taichung again. I really love looking for minsu that peoples generally don't know about. Even the guide/driver/photographer was asking me how i found this place because even he don't know about this place.Well there's always the typical hotel people would generally stay in, but i just don't want to do the same, haha i'm just stubborn that way.
Sneak peek at our room at the 民宿 in Taichung that we stayed for two very comdy nights.
While i was doing my makeup we smelt something sooooo good and we
realized the minsu owners are making waffles! Leon immediately went to
order one for us to share in my favorite combination ever Caramelized
Apple & Cinnamon Waffles! Thank you baby! *Drools thinking of it
Smells like how i imagine heaven would be like. I don't think i will ever get sick of this smell.
I WANT TO MOVE TO TAICHUNG!
OMG Food that is that photogenic, it taste as awesome as it looks, yuuuuuuuuuums!
Outfit of the day! we're filled with delicious waffles so now we have to energy to head out to SHOP at 一中街! 
Passed by this adorable shop along our minsu but didn't get to go and check it out cos i was so excited to go check out 一中街! it's a must-go for shopping!
Pssst. Shopping in Taichung is slightly cheaper than Taipei, for example i got this pair of booties in Taichung and i saw the exact pair in Taipei, same brand and all but about NT200 more expensive!
Eat Shop, Eat Shop. That's the life man! We had this 小僵尸棺材板 Errr direct translation, Little Vampire Coffin hahaha basically is fried toast with chicken or whatever you wanna put in for the main ingredient. Haha if i'm not raving about it.. it means it's like, meh. Nothing to shout about. It's alright, but not yummy enough that it's memorable.
My next Taiwan Winter 2013 travelogue, that place is DEFINITELY worth shouting about.
Shop shop shop until KO! Hahaha it's not like we keep eating but this was pretty late that night already then we saw this cafe and decided to have our very late dinner here, Jane & Tony!
Kawaii mascots!
My darling manslave with his both hands full of my shopping bags, he's soooo sweet he was like go go shop and he never let me carry anything at all throughout the whole time. So sweet! Bonus Brownie Point!!!
Freaking love taiwan and their cool, kawaii cafe culture.
Having a cuppa hot tea first while we decide what to order to keep warm cos it was getting colder at night!
Lucky i got this pair of uniqlo glove for this trip, really a live saver! I have zero tolerance for the cold.. yet i can't stand the heat. Errr hahaha but the uniqlo glove was super warm and pretty looking too! Has these furry cuffs and i got it in camel which pretty much could go with any outfit. (:
His & Mine!
It was ok! Not bad but not awesome but it's an adooooorable cafe! Hahaha maybe it's pretty yummy but i wasn't in the mood already by then, shopped for hours and i was soooo tireed considering i had like 3 hours of sleep the night before and did not manage to sleep in the plane on the way to taiwan at all.
Heh, can't wait for my next post on Taiwan Winter 2013 travelogue! Yummy yummy food & very good ambience too. Till then, have a great week ahead! (:
♡ Loves, TheLuckiestChick.
2 comments:
hey which minsu did you stay in?
Hi which minsu did you stay in
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