taichung day dream, continued

The Taichung story, again.
After two weeks later when I returned from the city of Formosa, I went back to Taichung city, again. As I said in the previous blog, it was almost seven or eight years ago. There was no tallest tower in the world, Taipei 101, but only the Shing Kong life tower, in Taipei.
Anyway, I took an express train from Taipei to Taichung, which was not a bullet train, but a normal one that took almost three hours between the cities.
In the Taichung department store, the girl I met before was not at the customer desk, but the other girl who was on her duty, kindly called to her as saying she was off. After the call, she said the girl I was looking for would come here soon to say hello to me.
This was kinds of day dream, I thought, then.
I can't remember completely what "we" said, when she was finally appeared in the department store. I'm not quite sure we said "hello".
But I remember, since then, we walked around the city, and went in a book store that had a nice cafe in the second floor. We had cups of nice flavored coffee with chocolate cakes.
Maybe, I was with her from noon time to the evening.
At five or six o'clock p.m. we said "see you" each other. I took the train to Taipei and she went to home, then, we've never met again.
Here was Taichung city, Taiwan

taichung day dream

When I was in "Taichung" city, or we can say "Táizhōng", or "Tâi-tiong", which is the west-central city of Formosa, or Taiwan, or Chinese Taipei, I was with my friend. It's a several or more years ago. We were just like quasi-backpackers. I mean, "quasi-" is that both of us were just fledgelings as office workers with a little money to afford to stay in cheap or middle-class hotels for a week.
The cheap hotel we stayed was near the old-classic-style Taichung station, and its master, called "grand-ma", was kindly to treat us a good Chinese-style breakfast, every morning.
Walking around the entire city without purposes, we happened to go into one of the most huge department stores in the city, where we met a girl who worked at a customer desk. Writing this sentence, I still can't remember why we happened to talk with her, but certainly remember that I took photos of her with my contax, because I still have one of them.
After going back to my country, I developed photos. The photos looked so vivid that the next thing I did was going back to the Taichung department store.
Here was Taichung city, Taiwan.

formosa cafe

The sky in the Formosa, the classic and literally beautiful nuance of Taiwan or Chinese Taipei, is so blue high. The sun is shining strongly, and the wind is blowing beautifully with the islanders' excitements.

I am just sitting here in a cafe around "Tamsui" or better to say "Danshuei" or "Danshui", a seaside town. The cafe is next to the Tamsui river, so I'm idly looking at a ferryboat carrying passengers to the opposite shore.

Inside the cafe, you may find empty tables in the pic, 'cause a fine day induces us to sit around the outside table.

Looking over the river, I just laughed to myself with remembering a mystery of the last night incident in a hot spa. It's a trifling matter. When I was alone in a bathhouse with putting my swimming trunks on, a naked guy came to the bath. Glimpsing my trunks, he was apparently surprised, and eventually running back to a dressing room. According to the rule number one of the spa, we should have trunks or swimsuits (for female) in the bathhouse.

Here is Tamsui, Taiwan.