Once everyone had returned home, we headed out for dinner at an English pub.
From there we went to the Taipei Lantern Festival. These were certainly not the lanterns that I expected.
This morning I headed out to the nearby local market. Afterwards I took the Metro to the National Palace Museam, a museum of Chinese historical objects removed when the leadership moved to Taiwan.
This rather unassuming object was used to help establish official units of measurement. It has multiple measurement units, including some that require flipping it upside-down!
From there I headed to the nearby night market (it wasn’t night so I had known it wouldn’t be that impressive, but it was nearby). and then to the Longshan Temple.
A long day of motion, I headed back to John’s apartment. I’m pretty pleased with successfully navigating an array of metros and buses and getting back to where I started.
My current plan is to leave Taipei in the morning for the rest of Taiwan. John’s going to cycle with me for a bit, navigating the way out of town. The bad weather of the past few days should be behind me for a bit. I need to pick a place to stay – it could be a love hotel!