FrankreichÎle-de-FranceÉpiais-lès-LouvresFlughafen Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle49°0’53” N 2°32’16” E
20. April 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Upgraded to business class! Great way to start.
TaiwanTaiwanTaoyuanPojiaoFlughafen Taiwan Taoyuan25°4’39” N 121°14’1” E
21. April 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Arrived at T1 and had to walk to T2 for immigration and baggage reclaim - about a km of corridor in total! Glad there's a metro the the High-Speed Rail now
TaiwanTaiwanJiushe VillageXizitianYuanli Chuan Ganxian24°24’21” N 120°41’25” E
21. April 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ 🌧 23 °C
Most of the adverts on the HSR are B2B! And the Germano-Japanese system is comfortable, clean and fast - 300km/h
TaiwanTaiwanZhongzheng VillageCaotun23°58’41” N 120°41’6” E
22. April 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Small town near Taichung - visiting family. Very noticeable how an ordinary, not very pretty street is transformed at night!
TaiwanTaiwanTainanZhongxiqu22°59’30” N 120°11’31” E
24. April 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
Great stir fry place - cheap (beer at under €2 a pint, 20-25 deep-fried oysters for around €3) and cheerful. In and out in 50 minutes. Stuffed at €12 a head.
Followed it off with an egg tartWeiterlesen
TaiwanTaiwanChechengChecheng Chezhan23°50’1” N 120°51’56” E
25. April 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
The end of the railway line. And a fee old railway artifacts in this little town. It used to be a hub of the logging industry - though that's long been stopped - and the old sawmill has been turnedWeiterlesen
TaiwanTaiwanZhongzheng VillageCaotun23°58’41” N 120°41’3” E
30. April 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
There's not much history in Taiwan. Earthquakes and typhoons mean that things don't last for long. However, it's also because they don't care well for what they have. These buildings date from theWeiterlesen
TaiwanTaiwanDanan VillageHuzi’erWugonglun23°58’32” N 120°58’49” E
1. Mai 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Puli is the geographic centre of Taiwan. This is the stone to mark it, and a monument set in a park to talk about it.
I don't know what the old building was - looks like a station but there are noWeiterlesen
TaiwanTaiwanTainanErkunshenYizai Jincheng22°59’18” N 120°9’25” E
3. Mai 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ 🌧 24 °C
Tainan has plenty of old buildings from the Japanese colonial period, including one that looks like a wedding cake!
An interesting feature of the city is the electric connection boxes from when theWeiterlesen
TaiwanTaiwanTainanErkunshen22°59’28” N 120°9’37” E
4. Mai 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
I love banyan trees. Hard to believe they're the same genus as a fig tree. There's an old warehouse in Tainan almost taken over by them.
Many trees in Asia have these two dimensional roots, quiteWeiterlesen
