[About] The Beginning and the End

L’Étranger will no longer offer bed and breakfast, not because it ran bad, instead it’s quite good recently. It is because we got another plan.

Umm…I(Jenny)’m going to get married this year, though still have no idea about when. Since I’ll move out after being a wife, it shall be toilsome for Ice if she runs it on her own. Then, back to our first thought – find roommates for Rm. 5 & 6. Actually we seemed not mention about how this B&B get started, and guests rarely asked. But I have to thank Pin who really let me know how it starts.

L’Étranger has been stayed low-key. Just use this blog, mark on the map and join Air B&B. Because we believe people who choose this place must have some kind of the same frequency. And it is! Guests here are really really awesome!

Pin found here by google search, read our blog quite narrowly then decided to email us. After couple of days he stayed here, finally he asked about how we start this. I said it is just happened other two roommates suddenly moved out, and we could not find suitable roommates, so we clean these two rooms up and make it as B&B, blahblahblah. Then he asked were the ex-roommates my friends? Ice and I glanced each other, after taking a deep breath I said”Yes, we were high school classmates, it seems we had some misunderstood.”, then he said”Oh so you find strangers to be your roommates. Don’t you think strangers could be dangerous?” “But anyway we believe that most people are kind.” I answered.

Actually I pondered after Pin’s question, then I have my answer as “I’d rather to be hurt by strangers than someone who is conversant.”

Un…such a sentimental time. After all Ice and me took lots of efforts on it, though we did learn more from this.

Anyways, THANK YOU SO MUCH all strangers, see you guys!

L’ Étranger Living Room

L’ Étranger Bathroom

We will provide you shower cream, shampoo, hair conditioner, and liquid laundry detergent. Due to personal hygiene concern, we recommend you to bring your own towel, even we can offer towels though.

L’ Étranger Breakfast

Breakfast time is 6am-10am, it maybe some breads, eggs, and hams; or porridge of rice and pickles. (Of course you may want to make breakfast by yourself, feel free to use the kitchen.)

Intro

The name “L’ Étranger” is quoted from Albert Camus’s novel which describes some people may get emotionally detached and innately passive. Although we may sometimes bump into those weird guys, we do not want to meet them in L’ Étranger.


L’ Étranger can also be me(Jenny) and Hielo, these two born-in-Changhwa but work-in-Taipei girls. We are junior high school-mates and best friends, having common interests such as travel, photography, painting, reading, music, movie, cuisine, One Piece(a Japanese manga). Having been living places but home, we both think that anyplace you may call it home once if you like that place. So…maybe you can pretend here is your home for a little while, and make yourself not be a stranger.

L’ Étranger B＆B is located in Yonghe City, Taipei County, Taiwan. Besides the world-know Yonghe soy bean milk, Yonghe’s another characteristic is the labyrinthian alleys. Although it is just a bridge-far away the Taipei city, you can never find that capitalistic atmosphere here. Forget about the extra-high density of population, just wander through the lanes and take a deep breath.

It’s an aged apartment where is close to MRT Yong-an Market station. Being situated in a tranquil residential quarters, but easily go to market, shops, metro station, bus stop, night market, parks, coffee shops, independent bookstores, etc. Quite convenient, isn’t it?

Welcome, strangers.