FransaÎle-de-FranceÉpiais-lès-LouvresParis Charles de Gaulle Airport49°0’53” N 2°32’16” E
20 Nisan 2019, Fransa ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Upgraded to business class! Great way to start.
TayvanTaiwanTaoyuanPojiaoTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport25°4’39” N 121°14’1” E
21 Nisan 2019, Tayvan ⋅ 🌧 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
TayvanTaiwanJiushe VillageXizitianYuanli Chuan Ganxian24°24’21” N 120°41’25” E
21 Nisan 2019, Tayvan ⋅ 🌧 23 °C
Most of the adverts on the HSR are B2B! And the Germano-Japanese system is comfortable, clean and fast - 300km/h
TayvanTaiwanZhongzheng VillageCaotun23°58’41” N 120°41’6” E
22 Nisan 2019, Tayvan ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Small town near Taichung - visiting family. Very noticeable how an ordinary, not very pretty street is transformed at night!
TayvanTaiwanTainanZhongxiqu22°59’30” N 120°11’31” E
24 Nisan 2019, Tayvan ⋅ 🌙 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 tartOkumaya devam et
TayvanTaiwanChechengChecheng Chezhan23°50’1” N 120°51’56” E
25 Nisan 2019, Tayvan ⋅ ☀️ 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 turnedOkumaya devam et
TayvanTaiwanZhongzheng VillageCaotun23°58’41” N 120°41’3” E
30 Nisan 2019, Tayvan ⋅ ⛅ 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 theOkumaya devam et
TayvanTaiwanDanan VillageHuzi’erWugonglun23°58’32” N 120°58’49” E
1 Mayıs 2019, Tayvan ⋅ ⛅ 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 noOkumaya devam et
TayvanTaiwanTainanErkunshenYizai Jincheng22°59’18” N 120°9’25” E
3 Mayıs 2019, Tayvan ⋅ 🌧 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 theOkumaya devam et
TayvanTaiwanTainanErkunshen22°59’28” N 120°9’37” E
4 Mayıs 2019, Tayvan ⋅ ⛅ 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, quiteOkumaya devam et
