A fond look back at Taiwan

Im off to Bangkok tonight, and, as usual am at the airport WAY too early. The plus being that ive found a free internet cafe to kill some time on.

Yesterday A'lo and i tried to do an Obscure Museums Tour of Taipei (self guided of course). I discovered, much to my delight, that the there are musuems on the following:

- Nougat
-Drinking Water
-Miniatures
-Paper
-Baking

No. really. These are all legitimate museums. Our first stop was the bakery museum, whch was a bust. what kind of museum do you need an appointment to go see?? honestly! Next was the miniatures, which was magical. Though by the end we were both in need of something normal sized... The paper museum was closed (new years and all..). By this time it was almost 5, raining, cold and we both needed food. So we 86ed the last 2 and had dinner instead. So, our obscure museums tour turned into a tour of 1 musuem and a lot of failed attempts.

Taiwan has a real fondness for free samples. Which is awesome for a couple different reasons. First, as a poor backpacker, ill take anything free can get, especially lunch. 2nd, i can try things in small amounts that id never have tried without it being handed to me. somethings im still not sure what it was i ate. anyways, my point is, the airport gift shops will be re thinking theyir free sample policy after i depart. Over priced airport food + hungry backpacker + free samples.... not a hard calculation!