Backpacking in Taiwan: Top 5 Sights in Anping
It’s been such a long and crazy journey since my time backpacking in Taiwan, yet week after week I remind myself and pinch myself that I was really there. I think visiting Taiwan was the…
Friday’s Featured Food: Taiwanese Hotpot at Hanlin Tea Rooms in Tainan, Taiwan
When I woke up this morning I had no idea what I would write about on Friday’s Featured Food as I have a long list of 200+ dishes/food types still to write up, so the…
Backpacking in Taiwan🇹🇼: 17 Things to see and do in Xinying (or Shinying!)
“There’s so much that we share that it’s time we’re aware it’s a small world after all” – Robert Sherman. Today is a long awaited overdue post. You will hear me mention the barely known…
10 Places I LOVE Which Aren’t Even In The Lonely Planet!
I use the Lonely Planet Guide Booksquite a lot when I travel and I like them. Usually they are correct, mostly they are useful but sometimes they are horrendously wrong and ill-informed. As soon as…
Top 5 Things to do in Chiayi, Taiwan
OK, you might not have heard of Chiayi City in Taiwan. But that’s partly the reason for this post. I love going slightly off the beaten track and letting fellow travellers know of places that…
Thirsty Thursdays: Tapioca Tea in Shinying, Taiwan
First up readers, bloggers and internet users, I owe an apology but it ain’t my fault thankfully! Being a travel blogger is glammed up as being an awesome job and I do my best to…
Friday’s Featured Food: Taiwan Style Pork Sandwich
Today’s Friday’s Featured Food comes with a hint of sadness. It’s also another example of life going full circle on me, again. Today was the last day I will have lunch in my favourite local…
Top 5 Scenic Bus Journeys
As a traveller, long distance buses become a way of life and part of the travel routine. I personally love them – a great way to sit back, relax and let someone else drive you…
Goodbye Formosa: Leaving Taiwan
My final few hours in Taiwan in 2009 ended in the same way as the entire Taiwan experience had been – sleepless. I shed a tear as I said goodbye to Millwall Neil outside a…
Leaving Shinying (Sinying/Xinying) Behind For This Lifetime…
Memories are emotional. “Saudades” as the Portuguese, Brazilians and Angolans say…that lingering, sentimental emotion associated with a place, a time, a person, people, a memory, which but for the invention of a time machine, WILL…