Day 7 inTaiwan - Xin Beitou (新北投) & Tamsui Old Street (淡水老街)

first day in Taipei was spent at Xin Beitou

cute display at the train platform 

THEN (pic above) vs Now (pic below) 

this museum was the result of a teacher, her class of pupils and the community 

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walked past the public hotspring 

nopx... we were not prepared for it... 

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look at the steam !!!

cute magnet and mini cards bought from the gift shop... 

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entirely made from wood... it is labelled as a Green building which focuses on minimizing pollution and harm to the natural environment by using recycled materials and being water and energy efficient.... 

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a few stations away and we reached Tamsui Old Street

苦肉计 that worked... =D 

a happy shopping day for me in one of the shops

plastic clip earrings for myself ... so adorable.... luv luv 

childhood memories... still remember the time where the 3 of us would have a competition to see who could empty our piggy the fastest with a long ruler.... =D

woody hedgehog earrings for Angela ... so cute!!! 

members of the maltese club ... hip hip hooray!!! =P

oldies bubble gums and sweets for Alvin 

and while i was busy shopping.... the ang brothers went to try out the pasar malam game stalls and won this... i got to keep it.... =D 

spotted Uniqlo across the street on our way back to the station and decided to check it out.... it was having a sale and the angs went on a shopping spree

and these were hubby ang's 战利品

and mine.... 

our freebie for spending S$200+ @ Uniqlo.... 

well, 洪妈妈, 洪爸爸 and Dominic had their own set of freebies too.... 

together we would have gotten 3 sets of freebies.... do the math to know the size of our collective hole in our pockets.... wahahahaha

  

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shop until broke so ended up with dinner by the roadside near our apartment ..... just joking.... 

i think this was my 特选猪扒 with spaghetti.... came with free flow of drink and corn soup @ only NT$130 ($5.85)