Well, the weather didn’t clear up so I didn’t get the opportunity to go to Beitou today (see my last post). As it was, I had a fairly good time sorting myself out—including the opportunity to buy a light waterproof—before heading off to Japan tomorrow. I’ve now sorted out accommodation for […]
Archive for January 2006
Taichung, Sun Moon Lake and Tainan
Train Journey to Taichung
I’d bought my train ticket from Taipei to Taichung (Taizhong) on the Saturday before I was due to travel on the Monday. Taipei Main Station was packed, and there were long queues at all of the ticket counters — twelve or so — both for travel that day and for […]
Notes on Taipei
I thought that I should write something to get this Travel Log off the ground, and also because I’ll be leaving the city tomorrow on the 12.22 express train to Taichung, Taiwan’s third-largest city, in the West of this fairly diminutive island (it covers 36,000 km² — England is more than 3.6 times its size […]





