Lake saturation
26 March 2017
Running a full lap around sun moon lake
Today I went to the number one tourist attraction in all of Taiwan, its so amazing Japan made Pokemon games about it, the world renowned sun moon ....
Cloudview
12 March 2017
Hiking up Zuocang in Hualien
For the last 3 days I have been looking at the mountain towering over the city of Hualien. So today despite it being covered in cloud, I decided t....
Department store rain shelter
11 March 2017
The Hualien Far Eastern department store
Imagine my lack of surprise when this evening I stepped out of my hotel room to find it was raining. It is not really a problem at night, and it d....
Major rain no dampener
7 March 2017
Vegetarian food in Taipei
Theres a flood. And yet still I went out without my raincoat. Not really a problem, there is an extensive underground network of tunnels. In these....
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....
Captives
31 October 2016
Visiting the Sapporo zoo on a rainy day
Warmer today, could be as warm as 8C, wheres my shorts? Warmer however means rain. And it rained. And it rained some more all day. The rain was no....
The museum is overrated
11 June 2016
The Deutsches museum in Munich
Normally I would title this day, 'the longest day' as my flight is not until 22:35. Ordinarily I am asleep by then, even whilst overseas on holida....
Record saturation
9 June 2016
I got completely lost and saturated on a hike near Salzburg
I have achieved a new record in the level of saturation achieved. Despite dire warnings of flash flooding and constant rain, I decided mountain cl....
Strawberry Salad
3 June 2016
Exploring the Oktoberfest fields in June
The rain finally came to Munich in the form of an awesome thunderstorm. There are floods everywhere but until tonight it has barely rained at all ....