Our apartment

After staying the first days with John and his wife Barbara (which are wonderful hosts, and both gave us a lot of information how every day's life is working in Taipei - not to mention the vast recycling rules... but this is another topic we will present you an other time here in the blog), we finally moved in our apartment. The flat is quite big and has three bedrooms! We had to clean it thoroughly, but now we settled in and are quite happy. While cleaning, we made a curious discovery:

A dragon was once haunting our apartment!!!

Well, the truth is, that this guy is just about 2.5 cm and rather a lizzard than a dragon, but we still take it as a good sign, as dragons are regarded as signs of luck in the Chinese world.
But here is the whole story: The previous tenants of our flat mus have been exceedingly anxious about draft so they attached transparent plastic foil all around the windows. The plastic foil was taken down but sticky traces of tape remained on the window frames. And on one of these window frames we found the mummified remains of this poor little fellow trapped in the sticky glue....