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!🧋🎻🎹🚚🎶
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! 🧧🐍🪭🧨
The Taiwan Episcopal Church Diocesan Convention 2021 was held last weekend, March 5-6, at St. Timothy’s Church, Kaohsiung… As Covid-19 in Taiwan continues to be contained through strict border and quarantine controls, so we are grateful that our convention could … Continue reading Taiwan Episcopal Church Diocesan Convention 台灣聖公會第61屆教區議會 2021
Chinese New Year (CNY) Celebrations for the Lunar New Year / Spring Festival have been going on non-stop all week here in Taiwan! There are mice and rat characters everywhere 🐭 🐀 and Mickey Mouse and his friends have never … Continue reading Happy Chinese New Year of the 🐭🐀!
Smiles all round in honour of Taiwan’s Double-Tenth National Day last Thursday, October 10 ~ and the start of a 4-day weekend for us all! And what a good opportunity it was to show our 18 international friends some of … Continue reading South to North up Taiwan’s West Coast with our 18 Friends from Latin America & the Caribbean!
So many many people, all there to enjoy the Lantern Festival, and, ah yes, it was great! The end of Chinese New Year celebrations is marked by the Lantern Festival, and in Taiwan, each local government organizes an event that … Continue reading 人山人海 ‘People Mountain, People Sea’ and fun at the Taiwan Lantern Festival 台灣燈會 @ Pingtung 屏東 Dapeng Bay大鵬灣 !
Kaohsiung is definitely my New Favourite City. Read this post I wrote in March to see why, and see the photos of the ‘Transformation by Colour’ that Kaohsiung is undergoing! Previously I hated the place, now I love it. Can’t … Continue reading Transformation by Colour Part 2 @ Kaohsiung 高雄 Street Art ~ and more!
This place is really quite something! And it’s quite something because this kind of scenery, called ‘badlands’, by definition shouldn’t really be here at all! All the other badlands in the world occur in places where it’s dry. Really dry. So dry in fact that little or no vegetation can grow anyway. Thus, ‘bad land’. Usually found in arid or semi-arid climates, like the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, USA. Taiwan is the only example in the whole world of badlands in a tropical climate. And tropical climates are anything but dry. So we have the curious phenomenon of … Continue reading Taiwan’s Badlands @ Tianliao Moon World 田寮月世界, Kaohsiung
Every city needs some colour, especially if the city concerned is famous for being a city nobody wants to visit. Or live in. Or work in. Kaohsiung is exactly that city. It may be the southern capital of Taiwan and a … Continue reading Transformation by Colour @ Kaohsiung 高雄 Street Art ~ and more!
Catherine Lee 