A trip to the Pacific Ocean!

After the registration process for the Chinese courses (on the 20th of September) I had some lunch in a Greek restaurant with a few other exchange students. Afterwards me and Andreas left Taipei to check out the beachside on the east cost while others … have to study or work hard…haha:)
First we fed the little Golf with petrol for half the price than in Europe! Through the way to the coast we also saw a new part of Taipei; the business one....with the empire of Acer and so on…
After one hour of driving to the Northeast direction we reached the cost at Juifang. The coastline is amazingly wide with all the rocky hills falling into the Pacific Ocean. We had a stop just to enjoy the sun before we moved towards the Fulung Beach area…to the south on the east cost side.
When we got there the sun had already gone down and it was a bit cloudy but what we found there was gorgeous. The long sandy beach with some small grassy hills seemed to be perfect. The cool Pacific Ocean with the huge, sometimes 2-3 meter’s high waves allured us for a bath! The waves were really cool... I loved them a lot!
Before we left, I luckily met with a Hungarian men who teaches English for 8 years and has a Taiwanese wife here. He invited me for a Hungarian party in October organised by the Hungarian council in Taipei. Well... you can find Hungarians all around the world!
On the way back we had a delicious seafood dinner with a huge lobster which had been swimming in the aquarium 15 min before we ate it). I drove back to Taipei and realised that Taiwanese drivers are very bad…comparing to anyone! By driving through the city you can see ‘almost accidents’ all the time, as they know nothing about keeping to the right but they really like to change lines often or just ignoring them at all. But my favourites are the scooter drivers…somehow they think that there are no traffic rules applying for them. Fortunately I am in the car so I don’t need to be scared…but they should! :)

pictures are in the Pacific Ocean album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/tamasintaiwan