Movie Fail

There is an area in Ximending with a whole lot of movie theatre's - we went there recently to watch a movie but unfortunatly all of the cinema's seemed to playing the same movie's and we didn't want to watch any of them.

So the movie watching was a total fail - but we did find these cool murals near Taipei Cinema Park. They are pretty amazing.



Also when we were out for a walk we saw some graffitti artists at work in Taipei Cinema park - you can't see it in the picture but this guy was working on a Halloween themed piece.

We checked out a few shops on our travels in Ximending as well - first of all here's a shot of Rich checking out a book in front of "Rock Fetish" near all of the cinema's.
I've walked past this store a few times but I decided I just had to take a photo - everything they sell is made in outer space apparently.I also loved these pillows - my favourite character Kuromi and My Melody - extremely Kawaaii cute.

Rich's Birthday!

A couple of weekends ago it was Rich's birthday, it was also the eve of Taiwan's double ten day and there were so many preparations going on throughout the city for the big day. Including these city arches being lit up so brightly they looked more like Christmas trees.

We ended up having dinner at Ximending, which is one of my favourite areas of Taipei. There's a lot of great restaurants here and shopping. As well as the occassional street performer and at the weekend there is a cool artists market.


We also paid a visit to the Taipei Cinema Park that night, they were showing some kind of film (or it was possibly a music video) outdoors with subtitles.



We finished up the night watching a movie at the cinema park area of Taipei - I can't quite remeber the name of the area but there a huge movie theatre's like this one everywhere.