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Just a quick note about the photos I’ve put up -

A few weekends ago we visited our nearby town of Changhua.  There is a big Buddha there, and some beautiful buildings.  The next day we went to the nearby city of Taichung to visit ‘Modern Toilet’ restaurant.  It was ace! The whole place is colourful and kind of crazy.  As you can probably guess from the name, there is a theme of toilets, which once the weirdness factor passes, is actually really fun.  Our table was a bath, with glass over it as a surface.  All the seats are toilets, and you eat out of a toilet bowl.  The dessert came in the wonderful Taiwanese squatties.  The sinks to wash your hands are also toilets.  It was an excellent experience!

The weekend just gone, we visited the Earthquake museum nearby.  This was a much more sobering experience.  The museum is on the site of where a large earthquake hit in 1999.  The buildings we walk around are the remains of a school which was devastated in the quake.  Thankfully it happened at night so the school wasn’t full of children, however a lot of people did die and get injured in the surrounding village.  The museum was excellent, really informative of the area and earthquakes in general.