“You will always feel fear, but over time you will realize the only way to truly manage your fear is to broaden your comfort zone.” Alex Honnold What a Day in Taipei! ๐ฑ๐ Following the Red Dot ~ Watching Alex … Continue reading What a Day! ๐ Watching Alex Honnold Free Solo Live up Taipei 101 ๐ And he did it! ๐คฉ YES!
This was not just any old cycle ride. ๐ด 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 10ยฐC to start the … Continue reading ๐ฆ๐ฆThe Day I met a Dinosaur ๐ฆ๐ฆ
The old, rundown, derelict, dusty, decaying (but fascinating) Taipei Railway Workshop ่บๅๆฉๅป , 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 ๅๅฎถ้ต้ๅ็ฉ้คจ ๐๐๐๐๐๐Must Visit!
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 ่บๅๅคง็ธฑ่ตฐ Taipei Grand Trail 2025!
The above photo is the night view from just across the road at St. John’s Cathedral, Taipei. It’s the National Taipei University of Education Museum’s exhibition by Yayoi Kusama, famous for her polka dots! It’s good to go late afternoon, … Continue reading Happy New Year 2025!
Another week, another typhoon, such was October 2024. Taiwan started the month with Typhoon Krathon – which caused major damage in Taiwan’s extreme north and south but left the rest of the country relatively unscathed – and we’ve now finished … Continue reading Typhoon Kong-Rey ๐ October 31, 2024
July 2024 was quite an eventful month for us in Taiwan ~ and was marked at the end of the month by the arrival of Typhoon Gaemi๐ ~ from which Taiwan is still recovering. The worst typhoon to hit Taiwan … Continue reading Welcoming Katherine & the Lovely Cooper Family from the UK to Taiwan! ๐โค๏ธ๐
Exactly 2 weeks after Chinese (Lunar) New Year comes the Lantern Festival ~ so Saturday February 24 was the day! Every city in Taiwan puts on its own Lantern Festival, but the main Taiwan Lantern Festival is hosted by a … Continue reading Dragons & More Dragons @ The Lantern Festival! ๐
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.โOh yes, red and gold are everywhere! The Year of the Dragon is coming, … Continue reading Red is the Colour, it’s Chinese New Year!
Catherine Lee 