Over the weekend I had the distinct honor and pleasure of attending a Taiwan Blogger meet-up hosted by MJ Klein in the lovely town of Hukou in Hsinchu County. Several bloggers attended the event, it was a nice mix of the heavyweights and welterweights of the English-language Taiwan Blogsphere. Full reports are available from Michael Turton, David Reid, Carrie Marshall, and David Edwards. Also in attendance were Mark Forman, Andres Yu along with his lovely wife Karen, friend Jerry, and cousin Becky, Carrie’s fiancé John, and David[Edwards]‘s girlfriend Catherine.

Looking forward to the next one!

UPDATE: Mark made a video of the event available here.

I think we are getting closer:

Somehow, we were able to find a parking space in all the mess so we could finally explore the area. The crowds were tolerable, likely only because it was going to rain sometime that evening:

Of course, the place was filled with food vendors, so we didn’t have to go hungry long after arriving:

Taiwan has entered the global space race:

Lies! I’m not even married!

More of doing the tourist thing:

Neiwan Train Station feeds the area with tourists:

Cathy met someone new:

That’s ok, so did I:

I have no idea why this is here:

The pedestrian bridge and the beautiful weather we encountered:

Time to make our own tea, first we grind everything together:

While doing this we eat snacks:

In the end, it looks like this and tastes delicious:

The place was run by this couple, they were the nicest people we met on the trip. Showering them with compliments paid off because they gave us a discount in the end:

[Taiwan] [Neiwan]