3 weeks before it happened we (Elisabeth, Kathy, Thierry and Diego) planed to go to Kenting. Unfortunately Elisabeth decided not to join us one evening before we started. She decided to stay in Taichung because Tony will leaving soon and she like to spend some more time with him.

So only 3 of us started at about 4 in Taichung to get down to Kenting before the big traffic. Soon after we started Thierry felt asleep and Diego enjoyed the ride and talked a lot with Kathy. As we arrived in Kenting the hotel we like to stay was overbooked. Fortunately Kathy organized us a better room than we would have before. We had a big room with two huge beds and a shower only separated with a curtain. The view we had was only disturbed by a little road. Because we came in so late we didn't had dinner yet. In the nice restaurant Kathy decided to go couldn't get a table, so we had to go for a drink first. Thierry thought a Long Island Ice Tea would be exactly the right stuff to take. After a huge glass of it he was almost drunk. At least we got a table and had a really nice dinner. Just finished we went back to the place we have been before. There the music and the drinks were so great. We stayed a while and a nice girl showed up. Thierry and me felt like to take a picture with her, but the beer wasn't for free… dam it! In the end we walked back to the hotel and after we arrived there we decided to go for a swim. The way to the beach wasn't that nice as we thought. We had to cross a shit-Greek. Some of us could jump, some not. But it was worth, the water was well temperatured. So we had a full hour swim. Tired, salty and full of sand everywhere we went back and shower and felt asleep fast.

The next morning was really nice and we had to go for a ride. After we filled up our batteries with a nice breakfast, we went for a 50 km ride. In the middle we did a little hike, up to the 7 hole waterfall. Diego was so exhausted, that he had to cool down. Back on the road we hit the east cost and just went slower to enjoy… Taiwan touches your heart. Back home by the hotel we went straight to the famous rock where you can jump down. Thierry jumped down like an arrow and Diego hanged in the air like a clown during his back flip. Tired and full of impressions we arrived at the hotel and just changed the clothes and went for dinner at the same place we did last nice. The curry was again really excellent. We were really lucky guys because it rained so hard for about an hour and as somebody turned off the shower we finished dinner as well. The air was about 100% humidity. But we couldn't resist to walk around in the Kenting-road where we found an hundred of little stores where we looked for nice stuff. But only Kathy found something to eat. This evening we didn't went big and listen to the sandman early.

The next morning we decided to do the same loop, but in the other direction. But this was a bad decision. 3/4 of the way we had head wind and it was absolutely exhausting. Only Diego had somehow his strong day. The two guys, always Gentlemen, spend wind shadow for Kathy and so we could keep the speed high. Almost at the end of the ride, there was a little downhill section and at the end of this hill a little village where Thierry and Diego passed by an speed of 60 Km/h. Kathy couldn't follow and so the two Gentlemen waited for her what she didn't appreciated because he had to push hard again. Back to the hotel everybody deserved a massage but it was so painful that Thierry had almost to cry. After this we just jumped in the car and drove back home to Taichung and looked forward to go at work on Monday.

the pictures from this weekend you can find here