A short hour away from the airport later, we had a huge dinner at a simple family restaurant and headed to the infamous Couple Bridge at the Thamsui Fisherman Wharf 淡水渔人码头. The night was breezy and you could see city lights on the two sides of the bridge with good acoustic music playing in the background~~~
There is a legend to this bridge that if a couple, each take a stand at the two sides of the bridge, close their eyes and begin to walk towards their opposite side, and reaches his/her partner on the bridge, their love will last a lifetime. Well, while we were there, we don't see any couples doing that but that's probably because that place was flooded by so many couples! Not only that, there were also families who brought along the young and the old and gathered around the place to enjoy the night view and breeze.
The walking surface of the bridge was covered in old-school small little square tiles which is seen commonly across the architectures and buildings of Taipei but it is the lighting that gave the bridge all the plus points.One side of the bridge was actually pretty similar to Singapore's Clarke Quay where there were seafood houses and pubs. Along the river, there were boats playing music and carrying tourists for a sweet off-land experience.
Walking around, I saw some street artists who simply set up a little corner with a chair and some drawings and begin making business by offering to draw portraits of tourists. It's kind of romantic because it reminds you of how couples in dramas visit sensual places like this and brings home a piece of drawing that embodies the memory of that day.
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