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! 🧧🐍🪭🧨
Family reunions mean food, and lots of it! This year I was invited once again to join the wonderful Tan family, who have kindly invited me for so many delicious meals in the past. They live in the Baishawan area on Taiwan’s … Continue reading Chinese New Year 2024: So Yummy!
Yes, red is the colour as always for Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year or Spring Festival) and this year is no exception. And gold too. Oh yes, red and gold are everywhere! The Year of the Dragon is coming, … Continue reading Red is the Colour, it’s Chinese New Year!
The Taiwan Lantern Festival meets Covid-19…..! It’s the final weekend of this huge extravaganza, Taiwan’s annual Lantern Festival with lanterns, light shows and huge crowds of people everywhere ~ and in the midst of them all there’s a few lanterns … Continue reading Happy Lantern Festival! 🏮
There’s rabbit clothes, rabbit lanterns, rabbit displays and rabbit-everything everywhere! An abundance of real live rabbits is one of the things I noticed about the UK on my recent visit – they were everywhere, munching away on people’s lawns. Not … Continue reading 🐰 Bouncing into the Year of the Rabbit! 🐰
Published last week by the Church Mission Society, my latest link letter, click on the link below… Continue reading CMS Link Letter #85: Happy New Year of the Tiger! 🐯
Escaping from Taipei’s endless rain and cold, and in search of some sun, warmth and blue skies, so we just spent this past week driving down Taiwan’s east coast. Beautiful! Yes, sun, warmth and blue skies, all so much appreciated. … Continue reading Roaring Down Taiwan’s East Coast in the Year of the Tiger! 🐯
Rain, rain and more rain – and mud, such a great combination! Plenty of both to keep me wet and disgustingly dirty for a whole week. Hey, at least we had no wind, or at least not at the same … Continue reading 臺北大縱走 Taipei Grand Hike / Trail @ Chinese New Year 2022!
Catherine Lee 