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
Dubai 2018 – Days 1 and 2 – All the touristy things
An intense smell of body odour welcomed us to our seats on the plane, which was not a fantastic welcome present to the start of our big 2018 holiday. We had planned to sleep through the 6.5 hour flight and … Read More
Italy 2018 – Day 6 – Vatican city and Rome
The beginning of the end, our last full day in Italy. The vatican was top of our priority today, we took a bus over from our Airbnb and was almost immediately stopped by a tour guide providing ‘advice’ about how … Read More
Italy 2018 – Day 5 – Rome
Train journey from Florence to Rome in the morning, which took about 2 hours, followed by the meeting our Airbnb host Isabella. Our room in Rome was really impressive compared to the last 2 we had stayed in this holiday, … Read More
Italy 2018 – Day 4 – Pisa
We were scheduled to do Pisa today, and set off fairly early to do so, it was the only major train ride we hadn’t prebooked in advance and so we at least had an open time frame to sort out … Read More