First thing on the agenda was to tapao 阜杭豆漿 for breakfast. We thought parents wouldn’t want to queue, and in any case I don’t think the location is big enough to accommodate many dine in ppl - I recalled it was within a food court. So we decided to let parents chill in room while we dutifully woke up and left hotel room by 745am to go queue. 

Or so we thought. While waiting for bus the sister happened to check the location on google and realised they weren’t open on Mondays zzzzz. So it was a good thing we didn’t make the trip for no good reason (it’s not very far but still). But it also meant we had to change plans and we ended up just buying from one of the few breakfast shops in the vicinity of the hotel. 

Breakfast done, off we go to our first destination of the day. Uber-ed to 南門市場 which had recently reopened after renovation, with a follow up plan for lunch at 金峰鹵肉飯 after that or in the market itself. Had to change drop off point while within the Uber coz apparently the designated pickup point in Uber is still the interim market location, which resulted in fare change. Then when we reached…guess who’s not open on Mondays too? Both 南門市場and 金峰鹵肉飯, yep. You’d think we would learn to check after this morning’s episode but nope, trip planning fail oops. 

So had to improvise again. We were in the vicinity of 中正紀念堂 so off we go. The weather is so sunny which makes for really good photos. But it’s also very hot hahaha so after a while Dad decided not to enter the memorial itself and went to hunt for shade and play his phone games (either that or he has something against 蔣介石lol which won’t be entirely surprising), while the rest of us went up the stairs (mum said she didn’t mind, though there’s a lift alternative). 

Off to 淡水! Another must visit for me, owing to the fact that both times I was there in my previous trips, the 情人橋 was closed for one reason or another. What I didn’t remember was that it was pretty far from Taipei city itself, almost another county in fact and even by Uber, it took almost an hour drive. Part two of things I forgot is that the 漁人碼頭is some distance away from 淡水老街 and there’s nothing much to do there apart from the scenery. Which we are blessed by good weather which gave us magnificent sunset views. Along with strong winds lol.