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I missed Muse's concert in Lyon a few weeks before I left. Sold out! I already missed them a couple of years before,, I had to re-sell my ticket.

So I started dreaming and hoping, and in my wildest dream Muse would come to Taipei... what are the chances?

And yet here they are and I am going tomorrow at Taipei's stadium for a whole day of music festival with Muse coming up at 9PM...

Nananananeeeeeeeeeeere!

Welcome to Kaoshiung's night market, open from 5PM till 5AM. Lots of people and lots of things to eat, half of which are not recognisable.

Not all the night markets in Taiwan are food ones, today I went to one in Taipei which was heaven for shoe shopper. They all are, however, on pedestrian streets were the shops expand on the streets.

Whatever the food looks like you should certainly try it. It's what we have been eating for the past week and up until know I heard no complaints, and even more, you can eat for 2EUR/day.

There is one thing a little bit annoying though : it smells like stinky tofu everywhere... And only if you have smelled THAT smell once in you life you can understand how uncomfortable that is. I'm French and like smelly cheese, stinky tofu is just like smelly feet times 1,000. But what is even more annoying is that I have been willing to try stinky tofu for quite a long time now (it is supposedly good for the skin but in chinese food it is always good for someting, especially if it is repulsive) and despite the fact that you can always smell it, you can never locate the stand where you should buy it.

So night markets? A lot people, fantastic taste and dreadful smells.

And here we are back in a country were you do not flush toilet paper...

Well, I do anyway but always with a slight sense of guilt.

At the beginning I opened this blog so my folks could have some news when I would be in Taipei... Then I decided to write it in English and therefore clearly lost them in the way.

Anyway here I am in Taipei, arrived yesterday and rediscovered the awful smell of the tea eggs in 7-11 shops.

The shock of civilization is not so hard as it is not my 1st time in Asia but there are still some things that I thought would be different.

1) Building are not so tall. I thought that they would, but it seems that the only real skyscraper is the 101... Well but it is the highest in the world for the moment : they got 1 but not any 1!

2) Girls are really liberated : the miniskirt IS happening

3) I thought my blogger interface would remain in French, well apprently learning Chinese is an emergency!!!

See you later!!