London Zoo nights
For the first time in a while, it feels like I actually had an exciting weekend. An old good friend had some spare tickets to the London Zoo ‘Zoo Nights’ event, which can basically be summarised as a trip to … Read More
Travel tips for Taipei / Taiwan
We found constant conflicting information during our research for Taiwan, and many details are omitted, even forum posts on tripadvisor for certain subjects were being closed off without real answers, so here are some travel tips and infobits that you … Read More
Taiwan 2018 – Day 8+9 – Shopping, Shilin Market, Miniatures Museum and departure
Day 8 – The designated shopping day We had finished mostly everything on our extensive list, and so decided to dedicate the day to shopping and other smaller things we hadn’t had a chance to do yet. After a long … Read More
Taiwan 2018 – Day 7 – Red line to Tamsui, with Guandu Temple
Day 7 – The long trip to Tamsui Once again, we struggled to find breakfast this morning, this seems to be a surprisingly common occurence, not so much because of lack of places which offer breakfast, but our inability to … Read More
Taiwan 2018 – Day 6 – Maokong, One Piece Cafe and Raohe market
Day 6 – The 4km Cable car ride A bizarre dream about starting a fire in my house and then being sucked into the past, followed by an angry girlfriend complaining that I ruined her sleep by rolling over and … Read More
Taiwan 2018 – Day 5 – Shifen and Jiufen
Day 5 – A trip into the mountains Found out that my last post didn’t upload properly, looks like the post is gone and the website has killed itself as well, hope that sorts itself out as I can’t really … Read More
Taiwan 2018 – Day 4 – Longshan Temple, Daan Forest Park, 101, Shin Yeh buffet
Day 4 This was initially a lot longer, but the blog didn’t post it for some reason, and it was lost, so im having to type it up again at a later date, some details probably missing. The sky was … Read More
Taiwan 2018 – Day 3 – CKS Memorial and weekend markets
Our day started with us going 6 floors up to a restaurant which wasn’t even open yet, the information we had read on the internet was wrong and so there we were all ready to eat and nowhere to go … Read More
Taiwan 2018 – Day 1 and 2 – Arrival and temples
Day 1 – travel from Dubai and Arrival Our first day in Taiwan was basically a throwaway, the plane departed Dubai at 3:40am so we already wasted a bunch of time in the airport just waiting for take-off time to … Read More