Intermag vs. Tea Houses

There was nothing particularly to describe about yesterday ... but today ...

After morning speeches we first wanted to go to pleanary ( afternoon, special) speech but finally we decided to make a little trip to Taipei's Zoo as the subject wan not really in phase with ours exceptions!!!

Of course after lunch, which didn`t went well - I mean it was expensive and not good a t all ... Sometimes it`s funny that you don`t quite know what are you going to eat..

Main conclusion for this restaurant is that:

-when the soup is the worst thing in you`re life that you ever eat

there will be no way of making it good, just run from this place .!!! - we tried “Harry Potter” style really hardly but it didn`t work neither...

After that we went to this zoo place, but apparently seeing that its closing at 17h00 and it was 16:40 we found closed gates .... sad ....

This motivated us to take a mountain cabin that climebed up to 1000m and travelled the distance of 4km !!!

 - up to small villages known for their tea !!! It was an amazing trip, changing my point of view of this city -giving some perspectives ...

Moreover, for the first time I could see the real jungle !!! ( what I found later, full of different noises of strange animals).

Durring this mechanical hiking we could see famous tea fields and really nice village houses. When we climb up there was quite many things to visit .... We decided to make a little tour to try many different kind of teas in many places ...

Like before we didn`t have much luck ( maybe it was the day ..) and in the first place that we chose they expected us to pay for :

-place
-table
-tea
-and of course consome an amount of the higher that set limit !!!

Scandal !!! ( don`t want to now ow much their charged for toiled - and in function of what...) - it was really expensive .... so we get out of there as fast as we could ...towards another tea house direction.

Meanwhile, we went out of our trail for a while to see the tea fields ( and of course try local specialties on the stick ...) . This was really fruitfull in the point of view of my experience ( first time could see how does it look like the real tea tree ...).

Just after this short detour we went to the some of the local specialty and of course, most important - to try different kinds of the. That was the wonderfull part !!! Of course people didn`t understand English so in the point of view of the food we weren't sure what we are eating .. :)

Moreover, all descriptions gave choise on english, but between chineas words :

Anyway this motivated us to go to the tea house to buy something for others ....

Sellers were very friendly and prepared many different kinds of the tea we could try before buying it. (here we saw 9 years old pumpkin specially prepared this way for consumption as a tea ...

and of course we did try some other teas 

It was funny experience...

Intermag 2011 - Day Two

It was a hard day work today

- starting with the presentation, that went quite smoothly and was followed with two posters sessions afternoon I had ... This was really exhausting as many people were asking questions all day long ... Anyway about a poster transportation ... brrr... it`s getting me nervous, especially when I`m thinking about coming back with all the thins that we have (two backpack, poster tube, photo camera + all the things that we are going to buy ... :) )

We didn`t even had time to try some of the Taiwan specialties during lunch break today - hopefully after toady's sessions we had a beer one also to relax...

No photos today as I was already overcharger with all the things today and there was no more place left in my backpack ...

Almost forgot, I will put one photo of the building that suprised me with it`s ... how to say that.... just take a look ...

Registration Day -Intermag 2011 day 1

Today was he first day of our conference, so we worked hard ...

 Just after having our breakfast ... wait something happend than - of course there was two strange guys that came to the dinning room and from the first look I knew that they are from Poland... what a shame ... sockets with sandals ... flag detail for Polish - basic ones- guys abroad ... what a shame .... ( because as I will learn later , they came to the conference also ...brrr

OK, back to the subject... after lunch we worked on our presentations, language (not to swear during presentation) etc ....to proudly represent our lab during presentations, starting with me tomorrow at 9h ...so we just met up for eating before the conference started (17h - as there was invited speeches - tutorial stuff....and registration only ...).


When we were going to to the restaurant we tried to find a hotel for staying after conference , but this was difficult, as we found only hotels that are much more expensive than the one where we are staying now - it seems that we found a perfect price.quality/distance ratio, so possibly we will extent our stay here before going to the cost adventure :) - will see later...as most of the things will come with time :)

Anyway, we went to the restaurant recommended by Ing Song. It was a noodle type food that they served there and of course we ordered some of the specialities - but what I wanted to say was :

-that the food was excellent

- and that the tea cups they they provided at he beginning was always full - when you drunk something from you're cup , right away there was a “the guardian lady” that came to fill it out ... I did a little experiment there : drink my the and then started to count the time before my cup was filled once again.... and she reacted late, as she was in the other room : 20s .... this resulted in many visits to the bathroom as we drunk something like 3l /pers.... afterwards :)

For the tutorial in the conference ... hmm boring ..!!!! Hopefully I could extend my patience by provided liquids (beer and stronger ones ) and just after had a little time to do some photos by night when returning to the hotel to prepare myself for tomorrow ....

And moreover two remarkable, worth mentioning things happend : we spoted second in Taipei garbage can !!!!

And first PUB with accual beer - rare in Taipi !!!: