Love holidaying in places where I could get to visit the city as well as the countryside !
We checked out of See You Hotel at 6:30am ! Yes, it was that early ! One of the main reasons why we chose to stay near the main station is for convenience. The main station provides services for Taipei Rapid Transit System served by both Tamsui Line and Nangang Line directly. The Taiwan Railway Administration for passengers to board a train to most cities in Taiwan without transferring. We took the Taiwan High Speed Rail to bring us to Tai Chung. It was a very comfortable ride and only took 40 minutes to reach Tai Chung !
The clean and comfortable bullet train !
We reached the spacious Tai Chung Station. To take the bus to Cing Jing, just proceed to the basement where a bus ticket booth was located.
Just tell the staff that you wanted to buy bus tickets to Cing Jing and let them know which resort/villa that you are staying. They will advise you which bus stop to alight in Cing Jing. We stayed in Florence Villa, therefore, we were advised to alight at "Guo Min Bing Guan". (The driver would alert the passengers when he was making a stop-over) You can put your bulky luggage inside the bus compartment. The bus will take about 2 hours to reach Cing Jing.
We alighted at "Guo Min Bing Guan" and try to find our way to Florence Villa. One grave mistake we made, we did not know that we could call the villa to drive us to directly to the villa upon arrival at "Guo Min Bing Guan"! It was like more than 1 km with our luggage on hilly roads to the villa ...
Finally, we reached Florence Villa !!!!
This is the main entrance of Florence Resort Villa. There are 3 resort buildings which provide different accommodation requirements in a relatively big compound.
You can chose to stay either in "Italianate Villa", "Constantinople" or "European Manor".
We have stayed in the "Italianate Villa",威尼斯豪華景觀雙人房. This room is nearest to the lobby ..
The cozy lobby ..
The tiny balcony ...
... the great view from the tiny balcony !
Another view from the balcony ... probably the most "atas" accommodation in Cing Jing, the Old England Manor !
The left building is "Constantinople" and the building with "Starry bar" is ""European Manor". We could moved around these 2 buildings as well.
Taken a photo of "Italianate villa" from "Constantinople" ... Italianate villa is set at the top of the hill and the 2 villas and chocolate shop and restaurant are located down the slope. Therefore, we have to climb up and down getting from places to places.
Florence Resort Villa also has a hand-made chocolate shop. We would pass by this lovely place a couple of times for our meals at the restaurant daily.
The lovely restaurant where we had all our meals during our stay in Cing Jing.
You can also choose to dine in this part of the restaurant ...
The western food they served were terrific ! This plateful of colourful salad was fresh and sweet ! (ok, except the vegetarian pasta ordered for dinner)
The baked chicken is awesome too !
The pork knuckle was cooked to perfection, very much catered to the Asian style of cooking though.
The creamy corn soup with bacon bites and baked bread crumbs was just so fragrant ! Very satisfactory meals indeed ! For dinner, if you order western food, you can help yourself to the salad bar too ! Value for money !
Oh..more photos of the areas around the big resort.
Nina hand-made chocolates
The side entrance of the chocolate shop.
Inside the cozy chocolate shop .. they sell Movenpick ice-cream too ! Yummy !
Looks pretty Christmassy at night !
The swing just outside the chocolate shop.
The Starry Bar ...
Behind us is the the European Manor.
The very tamed golden retriever, Da Xiong ! At that instant, really missed Jojo so much !
The villas' owner private villa.
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