Today being the day before I fly home, we had a nice surprise when Emmie and Alan's son Evan wanted to play computer games with us for a couple of hours in the morning, i had never played the games before and he final got me to play against him totally annihilating me, but great fun and company, we had to leave as we had an appointment to meet a dear friend of mine for lunch Dawson.
Neil, Me & Dawson
And to top the day off we got a phone call saying that Evan wanted to see me as he had something for me, well the gift he gave me you can see above I was flabbergasted it is an expensive hand made Chinese Figurine as in the picture above with the message David I love you Evan, I was lost for words he gave me a hug and a kiss from this 6 year old, who loves playing chess playing the piano, and mathematics
Yesterday would not have been able to take this picture as was all barricaded in
Today I got the normal bus to the city rather than the metro, and when we got to where the Chan-Ki-Shek memorial hall is situated the place was crowded with more coaches than I had ever seen in one place, thought must be a big tourist party, but when we go to the end of the road the bus I was on did not take its normal rout but just turned and headed back the other way, no speaking Chinese I did not know why this was so. I soon found out there was this hell of a noise of sirens blowing after some guy had spoken on the loud speaker, well the whole main city was closed off with barricades as seen in these pictures, in May the green party here lost power and their ex president is being investigated for fraud, the new president had invited a member of the mainland Chinese government over for talks, and he was in the country. Most of the protesters had come from the south of the Island the green Party stronghold, thus all the coaches
Fierce clashes between police and opposition Democratic Progressive Party supporters injured dozens today during protests against the meeting between Chinese negotiator Chen Yunlin and President Ma Ying-jeou
In the night market food area
Some friendly people advertising
A quaint little girl enthralled by the music being played on the Harp by the lady she stood mesmerised for ages watching and listening to the music which was beautiful
An unusual form of massaging, I got the permission of the practitioners to take the pictures, each practitioner has a meat chopper in each hand and is hitting the bodies with them I don't know what the results look like
Whilst walking to the springs we did come across a wedding shoot, and Neil said he thought they were both women, by looks and by what the photographer said?
The very hot water coming down from the spring full of sulphur
The Lillie's of the field (water) how they grow; they toil not; neither do they spin; yet I say unto you Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these
Today I did my 