This past week has seen a lot of depressing stories in the news. Brexit seems to be heading for catastrophe and the cliff edge, there is a new conservative supreme court judge in the US, and to cap it off, the earth is burning, and if we do not do something urgently, then we are …
Clear days in the city
Today is not a good air day, but these were taken during the week (when the air was good) from a bridge at about 17:00. I was on my way to meet a friend and was walking from my university to the restaurant, crossing this bridge. You can just see the red tinge of the sky …
Golden Week travels: Taipei – Part 3
Having done most stuff I had pencilled in, Sunday morning I decided to go to the zoo. Apparently this is the biggest zoo in Asia. I do not usually frequent zoos (I have not been to the Beijing one, as I think I would be a little sad going there), but I was impressed with …
Golden Week travels: Taipei – Part 2
Saturday morning was grey, but the weather cleared up later. On my list of things to do, I had covered most of what I had read was worth seeing. I checked the cinema times and there was a showing of the horror film The Nun showing later in the day. This was released in early September …
Golden Week travels: Taipei – Part 1
There are two major holidays in the Chinese calendar – Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) is the main one. This changes each year, but usually it falls sometime in January or February. The other holiday, so-called ‘golden week’, is now – the first week of October. This usually coincides with National Day holiday, which is …
An evening at the Olympic park
I recently took a walk in the Olympic park area one evening. The light show is quite impressive (especially the purple tower - I think it looks good).
This is a learning curve
“I think at last, we understand one another, Frodo Baggins”. Faramir said that towards the end of the second Lord of the Rings film. And so it is here too. My culture course has not gone quite as I imagined it would. My first class, the introduction, was fine, but that was really just who …
