Taiwan part 4 - Recovery

This is the day where Christine planned to take me to go see something, she only told me it was a geography trip. That morning I had a very bad head ache from the night before and suffered from having about 4 hours sleep before meeting her again.

Me, Christine and her boyfriend ate at this little Chinese cafe where to no hope I was being taught the method of using chopsticks, I gave up the real method and tried to use the chopsticks as an improvised shovel (I was in a difficult situation, so anything is good :D). That's where I met Sam, who is a friend of theirs who also spoke English. Once I had finished the meal, I would normally call this a polite way of saying I finished my meal where I put my cutlery on a plate, but I put my chopsticks into a bowl which is a bad thing over there, I'm not sure entirely why but its something to do with a Buddhist belief that putting chopsticks into a rice bowl is some kind of offering to the dead over there (whoops, there seems to be an accidental foot in mouth thing about me and death :\).

We end up going to a small seaside town that day called Wanli, where there is an attraction called the Queens Head, which is a rock which looks like the queens head when looking at it from a certain angle. The bus journey there was rather rough, driver must have been going at breakneck speed, then at each stop, just slamming the brakes on (with safety in mind for all passengers), 1 lass ended up falling through the doors nearly :O. I didn't fancy queuing for ages just to see the queens head when I got there, so I had a look around the area. Although I was completely tired from the night before, I wanted to go up this big hill, but we didn't go all the way up as someone in the group wasn't able to walk up it.

I hate Guinness

When we came back to Taipei, we wandered around 1 of the night markets. There was a little funfair which I thought to go see what there is there. There was a gun game where I had to pop all these balloons, I did pretty well to say that I used a clip of 12 within 15 seconds and I got 34 out of 36, Christine asked me "Are u killer?" I told her "I have enough practice everyday playing Nazi Zombie with my mate haha". I played a darts game where I had succeeded in getting a dart into my wallet from about 13 meters away (I wouldn't be able to do it again if I tried lol). After that we went for a few drinks in this little bar where they have all these different types of beer, like a strawberry beer which I've never seen before (normally I'm a cider person, but thats non existent there), I convinced the others to try Guinness as they like bitters and thats the stuff British normally drink, I hated it but I had to try it just to prove it isn't too bad lol.

The day after, the new friend I met Sam, I had a guided tour as to what she would normally do on a day off and during the evening, I showed her how the British have a good night out, she was impressed enough to want another before I head back to UK. The last couple of days were going to a Chinese Valentines Day festival which most of the night, didn't have a clue what was going on apart from Christine telling me off because I kept using Taiwanese dollar notes and not using coins (wish I listened to her now). I gave Sam her last night out where I introduced her to what is nicknamed The Green Fairy (Absinthe) The trip back was a bit poor, I had a red bull frenzy during the day so I didn't end up falling to sleep until I had boarded a plane (that day, I was awake for 26 hours). The 1st thing I got the surprise off was a guy complaining because         he was being charged more then what he had thought he would have done, his exact words were "I know I'm not paying for the flight, my company is but thats not the point. I expect free bottles of bubbly every 30 minutes for this". I really could not bare this being awake for that long and with it being so early as well, I then decided to take it upon myself to make a message using a white board with magnetic tiles for him because I was really stressed out, tired and sobering.

When I got back to England, I went to change my TWD's back into pounds and couldn't change as much back because they wont accept coins so I got about £18 in return when I could've had about £50 returned (yes, I should have listened to Christine about using coins instead of notes). I asked the airport staff if there is a room I could use for the night and they were going to charge me £250 for a night in a nearby hotel, luckily I met someone a few months previous from London who told me to go to somewhere in Hayes which charged me £40, but the taxi driver charged me a bomb £26 to get to the hotel, still much better then using a nearby hotel.