Went to Miramar Shopping Complex to see Spiderman III a while back, and was a bit sad to see that the Welcome grocery store in the basement has closed down. That wasn’t a bad little store (in its variety of foreigner food). But with a Carrefour across the road in one direction and a Geant across the road in another, I guess it was pretty tough for them to turn a profit.
After the movie, I took a ride on the Miramar Ferris wheel for the first time. These pictures I took of Taipei are a bit grainy, but what do you expect at ISO 3200?
That tall building is Taipei 101 off in the distance:
With the wall of buildings in the foreground, this looks a bit like the planet Krypton:
A close-up of Taipei 101:
And another:
These streaks aren’t reflections off the windows, I tell you! They’re meteorites, containing creepy viscous alien life-forms!
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