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
This. My annual challenge. 26 km (16 miles) across the Yang-Ming Shan Mountains above Taipei, from east to west, Fengguizui to Qingtian Temple, elevation gain 1,905 m (6,250 ft). Ten mountains, mostly steep, but all great fun! This was Saturday January 13, 2024, … Continue reading 陽明山東西大縱走 Yang-Ming Shan East-West Vertical Traverse 2024!
Green is the colour for Earth Day, of course! So here I am at our local elementary school all in green, for a day of fun and games with all 6 classes of children (photos taken by the school for … Continue reading Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Earth Day Vibes!
Ten summits, ten hours, 25 km, 1900m elevation gain ~ and special sights: frost on the grassy area that is Xiangtian Pond, azaleas, cherry blossom – and lots of people doing the same all-day hike. Perfect weather, sunny all day although cold in the early morning. For 2019’s report in much more detail, see here. These are my instagram photos of the Yang-Ming Shan East-West Vertical Traverse (actually west to east) yesterday …… Highly recommended hike, but I’m aching all over today ha ha! Continue reading ‘陽明山東西大縱走活動’ ‘Yang-Ming Shan East-West Vertical Traverse’ 2021!
A bumper weekend here in Taiwan ~ with an extra day off on Friday for the Dragon Boat Festival. YES! Today is Pentecost ~ the day we remember the coming of the Holy Spirit on Jesus’ disciples in Jerusalem, 40 … Continue reading Pentecost & Dragon Boat Festival 2019!
“Banksy: The Authentic Rebel” Exhibition has opened in a Taipei Shopping Mall, and it’s great! Free entry. On until March 24. There’s 25 art pieces on display, and it’s all arranged by Phillips the auction people – apparently the first … Continue reading The Very First Banksy Exhibition opens in Taipei!
Gotta go when you gotta go ~ and so goodbye Taiwan until next year! So much going on and so little time ~ so a small selection of other people’s photos of the last few weeks. Teaching, preaching, eating, drinking, sightseeing and more… And, my friends from Taichung who came for the weekend ~ we went on the Pingxi Line and to Shifen Waterfall. Ah, selfie heaven! This is the alternative Pingxi Line set of photos – the ones I took – ah, gotta love ’em all! It’s time to go when it’s time to go ~ and all UK … Continue reading Goodbye Taiwan!
Chiang Kai-Shek (CKS), ‘leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in exile in Taiwan’, arrived in Taiwan in 1949 with his wife, Soong Mei-Ling. A year later, they moved into their new home, the Shilin Official Residence 士林官邸 and stayed there until Chiang Kai-Shek’s death in 1975. Visitors were many and famous, including then US Vice-President Nixon in 1953, and President Eisenhower in 1960. This is the building today…. During the Japanese Colonial Era (1895-1945), the building was the location of the Shilin Horticultural Experimental Station, and surrounded, of course, … Continue reading Chiang Kai-Shek Official Residence 士林官邸 & Martyrs Shrine 忠烈祠 @ Shilin, Taipei
Yes, said a fond farewell to Sanzhi 三芝 this week – the town / district where I’ve been living for the past 3 years ~ and of course said a sad (!) farewell to all the termites who had seriously taken over my house – and my life! This photo below shows where I was living in Sanzhi – in this vast housing estate of flats / apartments ~ and it was great! I was on the ground floor facing into the central area of the estate. Lovely neighbours ~ and very safe, central and convenient for buses and shopping. … Continue reading Farewell Sanzhi & Hello Taipei!
Catherine Lee 