CDG T1
20 April 2019, Perancis ⋅ ☀️ 19 °CUpgraded to business class! Great way to start.
Upgraded to business class! Great way to start.
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
Most of the adverts on the HSR are B2B! And the Germano-Japanese system is comfortable, clean and fast - 300km/h
Small town near Taichung - visiting family. Very noticeable how an ordinary, not very pretty street is transformed at night!
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 tartBaca selengkapnya
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 turnedBaca selengkapnya
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 theBaca selengkapnya
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 noBaca selengkapnya
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 theBaca selengkapnya
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, quiteBaca selengkapnya