This was not just any old cycle ride. 🚴 It’s not every day, after all, that I meet a dinosaur riding around Taipei City on a yellow U-Bike. This was Saturday, January 10, with a cold 10°C to start the … Continue reading 🦖🦕The Day I met a Dinosaur 🦕🦖
Purple & pink, red & green, Advent & Christmas ~ so much colour, so many blessings, thank you to everyone who joined the fun (including the paper-chain-making team – using the previous month’s cathedral service bulletins), and all those who sent Christmas greetings too! 🤣 Decorations & celebrations, concerts, candles & carols galore, a wedding, a farewell, parties & games – pass the parcel is definitely my favourite! 🤣 Thanks be to God for this past year ~ here’s to 2026, wishing you all a Happy New Year! ❤️ Continue reading Advent & Christmas 2025!
The old, rundown, derelict, dusty, decaying (but fascinating) Taipei Railway Workshop 臺北機廠, which officially closed in 2012, is being transformed into the National Railway Museum. It was officially opened over the summer, so now that the kids have gone back … Continue reading Taiwan’s New National Railway Museum 國家鐵道博物館 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚆Must Visit!
ABC of Taipei Summer Scenes 2025 in 22 photos & 30 hashtags including #AForAdventures #BlueSea #BlueSky #BeautifulBeaches🏖️ #CharmingCattle🐃 #Datunshan大屯山 #ElephantMountain象山🐘 #FunkyFlowers🌺🌼🏵️ #Guanyinshan觀音山 #HorribleHornets🐝 #HeatHeatHeat🌡️😅🫠🥵😎 #IceCream😋😋 #Jianshan尖山 #Karibu (Welcome) to all the summer visitors & friends #Lighthouse1897 #MagnificentMountains🏞️ #NorthernTipOfTaiwan #OrangeSunsets & … Continue reading Taipei Summer Scenes 2025
It’s 8:22 pm on Thursday, May 22, only a few hours after landing in Taiwan, and my brother, David, has just got to get outside to film Taiwan’s famous musical bin lorries as they arrive, as scheduled, exactly on time … Continue reading Welcoming David & Anna to Taiwan!🧋🎻🎹🚚🎶
The Taipei Grand Trail (TGT) is a fun way to explore the mountains and hills that surround Taipei, on a series of well-trodden and clearly-marked footpaths that link up into one big 130 km-long trail. This includes 92 km of … Continue reading 臺北大縱走 Taipei Grand Trail 2025!
Alishan in Cherry Blossom Season is THE place to be! High up in Taiwan’s central mountain range, part of Chiayi County, its charm lies in the little red mountain trains that chug upwards and onwards each day before dawn, taking … Continue reading Alishan 阿里山 Cherry Blossom Season 2025! 🌸
Yes, there’s snakes galore! It’s the Year of the Snake, and snakes feature highly in the Lantern Festival events being held all over Taiwan in recent weeks. There are snake lanterns of every shape and size, and of every description, … Continue reading 🏮It’s Lantern Festival Time! 🐍
Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year & Spring Festival) has taken over our lives here in Taiwan in the last few weeks, it’s great! We spent most of January in preparation ~ spring cleaning, cooking, shopping and decorating, all … Continue reading 🐍🏮⛩️ Happy Year of the Snake! 🧧🐍🪭🧨
Catherine Lee 