After the recent event, both Hsiao-Wei and I felt that a little get-away would really do me good, so I took that opportunity that Hsaio-Wei needed to go down to Kao-Hsiung for business to go along with him and spent his birthday there.
It's been a long time since I last visited Kao-Hsiung, and frankly speaking, it did change a lot, and in a positive way. The city now looks modern and clean, and obviously more spacious (at least in perception) compared to Taipei.
We did not plan for a busy itinery but just kind of wonder around. We had lunch at a place recommended by Hsiao-Wei's colleaque called "古波洋樓", the food was nice and the place itself was rather unique and kind of exotic. The deco seemed to have both a taste of the Southeast Asian (mostly Thai), and ancient Chinese, and the building the facing a small peir.
After lunch, we went to visit the famous British Consulate at Takao to have afteroon tea, and waited long enough to see the sunset. It was indeed a very nice place, situated at a hilltop on the right side of 西子灣, it is the first western building in Taiwan and built in 1865.
After visiting Takao, we took a walk along the ocean-side and eventually reached National Chung-Shan University, but it was quite dark then and frankly cound not see much other than some very energetic college students playing volleyball and basketball in the dark.
Finally, we took taxi to arrive at another famous resturant recommended by Hsaio-Wei's friend, called "Smoky Joe" (冒煙的喬"), supposely a Mexican resturant but in effect selling lots of Chinese food as well. We had dinner there to celebrated Hsiao-Wei's 39th birthday with a tiny cake, compliment from the resturant ( actually per our request :) .
Since we only had one day, surely the day could not end just like that. We then took the taxi to visit another famous tourist spot called "City Light", it was nothing but a park, yet nicely managed and decorated with light and open cafe and live music. Though the weather was nice and we could have sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee, but we decided to have a boat-ride on the "Love River", and lastly, stopped by the "六合夜市" and finally called it a day.
It was funny that we always think Taiwan is a small island and Kao-Hsiung is only a 45 minute plane ride away, but simply by leaving Taipei could indeed gave us a refreshed and relaxed feeling, think we ought to do more of that in the future.
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