There are lots of Koreans in Japanese Taiwan
6 March 2017
Dinner at the Taipei 101 food court
Its history time. In the beginning, Taiwan was a tropical paradise with Hawaiians on it, or people that looked like them, I will meet some next we....
Raining cats
6 March 2017
Houtong cat village day trip
Today I went far to the East of Taipei to a recently famous spot called Houtong, famous for being an abandoned coal mine that is now overrun by fe....
The unprecedented 4th update
5 March 2017
Raohe night market in Taipei
As forecast, here is something that has never happened before, a fourth update on a single day. This is largely because my day started on Saturday....
The boring photos continue
5 March 2017
Arriving at Taoyuan airport and getting into Taipei
Surely the most boring start to one of my long winded things ever. Update 3 on day 1 and I am in my Taipei hotel, and its still only 4pm in the af....
Totally full and uncomfortable
5 March 2017
Melbourne to Singapore on a Singapore airlines Airbus A380
Normally my flight stories talk about an entire row of seats to myself. Not this time. My 7.5 hour flight to Singapore was totally full. I do not ....
Early morning late night flight
5 March 2017
Snacking in the Singapore airlines lounge at Melbourne airport
Time for another months holiday. Its been 3 and a half months since I came back from Japan, so thats long enough of not being on holiday. I am goi....
For the sake of completeness
10 November 2016
A lap of Ueno and the train to Narita
Not sake the drink, sake as in for the purpose of, I have never completed or even started sake, for the sake of the sake. I have a few minutes be....
Button security
9 November 2016
Sichuan style ramen in Shinjuku
If you have been to Japan you will know they have security guards, or at least small old men in uniform, for everything. You can find some amusing....
Now they are rubbish
9 November 2016
Hiking all the hills surrounding Kamakura
My last full day in Japan. Trump won, the internet, pollsters and forecasting supercomputers are wrong everytime now, brexit, UK election, trump. ....