Travel report Day three; some good news, some bad…

Yesterday morning we got a telephone call from the foundry people, the owner was not avialable, Called away for an emergency…. so bummer, we stayed in the hotel and worked on our computers, we don’t picture this as that’s no fun… Kevin picked us up little before noon for a brief lunch….

On the parking lot we’ve got some Chinese for beginners….

The lunch was something traditional, and tasty as well, only ordering was quiet a challenge… Thanks God we had pictures… and Kevin…

Basic, very basic, some sesam seed we had to stamp ourselves, cool, at least we had something to do…. and mandatory Chinese Tea….

Ok enough about food, back to work… Early afternoon we had an appointment with a local car hero and artist alike…  Besides our external quality controls we always try to find local people who knows cars in and out, who breath our brands, know how to wrench and are self containing enough to just give their straight idea’s (that describe Pascal in BBT office perfectly!) ok that these guys don’t live in the most organised places you have to take along….

Welcome, welcome…

Daily transport, a VW bus look-a-like, aren’t they cute?

Beside VW’s this guy has tons of Mini’s… we liked this psychedelic one….

His little shop is a collection of automotive, scale toys, and everything with a “interesting smell”… kind a cool hang out place…

His main thing is being an artist, making robot statues from old car parts…

Find the Voodoo and the Horse with the burning tail….

Flamingo? or Ostrich? look at the toes…

Another weird creature… A mini with beetle engine conversion, the first good mini on the Globe? Or just another movie car for Mr Bean…

Some more creatures, a bird….

And a Dog…

After all creativity and to learn our Mr Tester in person, we headed more North for an early dinner with some larger traders we work with for a while, it was good to learn Mr Benjamin in person, and we talked a lot, huge manufacturer of modern car parts, but still a weak heart for what him started to grow, the VW beetle parts… Definitely a guy with his heart in the right place… one of our buddies for live…

Heading more North to the Capital of Taipei… Crazy traffic on a rainy (and COLD!) Friday evening in rush hour, but still I managed to get you this shot about the typical Asian neon signs…

If you ever been to Taipei you remember the scooters, they’re just EVERYWHERE! unbelievable, they’ve hoards of them…

After three days with Kevin we had to say Goodbye, and this way we like to extremely thank Kevin so much! He was the perfect host and made this trip one of our most easy trips ever so far….

Today we will be back in time, and been guided by our first and most important Taiwanese business partner Mike, but first after all this travel, meeting and visits….

See you at the bar!