Congratulations to St. John’s Cathedral, Taipei ~ and to all in the Taiwan Episcopal Church! We celebrated St. John’s Cathedral’s 70th anniversary with a special Thanksgiving Service on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at 2:30 pm, followed by a Thanksgiving Dinner … Continue reading St. John’s Cathedral, Taipei 70th Anniversary! 台北聖約翰座堂70週年!❤️
Taiwan’s Lantern Festival is just the best ~ I love it! It’s one of my favourite festivals every year. There’s so much colour everywhere, and this year I was especially delighted to welcome my good friends from the UK, Nicky … Continue reading Welcoming Nicky & Harriet to Taiwan! 🏮🐴🧋☀️
“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! 😱🙏 Following the Red Dot ~ Watching Alex … Continue reading What a Day! 😅 Watching Alex Honnold Free Solo Live up Taipei 101 😅 And he did it! 🤩 YES!
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 🦕🦖
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!
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!
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 🌀 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 Gaemi🌀 ~ 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! 🌍❤️🌏
