Here we are again

We are back in the business class lounge waiting for a flight out of Taipei. Last time it was early morning en route to Narita and I couldn't face any noodles. Now I realise that I don't really like wheat noodles. Rice noodles are for me. Not to worry there is plenty else to snack on while we wait for our flight.
We went to the Fine Arts Museum today.

FAM

It had three excellent exhibitions.
1. Women artists in Taiwan since 1930. They run the gamut from traditional Chinese painters to installation artists. The earlier ones tended to have stopped painting for 20-30 years to raise a family but a couple of them really broke loose after that.
2. A. Retrospective of the local photographer who has been at it for 54 years. There must have been a thousand photos in his show. He has to be brilliant at keeping them all in order.
3. An artist who paints ultra modern, glass buildings which have traditional landscapes reflected in the windows. This exhibit deserved a second and third look.
Eventually we got back to the hotel to pick up our bags and head for the bus station which is part of the main train station just down the block. Well, we walked all around that wretched building trying to find the right place without carrying our bags up any stairs. The last time Jo did that, in  Kagoshima, his leg muscles ached for 4 days. We eventually ended up where we started from, crossed the road and there we were. We hopped onto the first bus to the airport. It drove around in circles picking up passengers from classy hotels. It then mutated into a suburban bus and picked up passengers from shopping districts. After a long trip on the freeway, it started to drop off passengers in an industrial area. Eventually it arrived at the airport (via the cargo area.) Talk about an afternoon for roundaboutations!

cloudscape from FAM

There is some weather between us and the Philipines. I hope it doesn't lead to more side tracks.