This entry is going to be a little different from those that precede it: I’m going to try to write it ‘thematically’ rather than chronologically. Alan de Botton, in his book The Art of Travel, talks about how if we were going to travel in a structured fashion, we would be traversing […]

This is going to be another long one, I’m afraid. I’m trying to improve my ‘writing for the Web’ style and produce shorter paragraphs, which are supposedly easier to speed read (especially on a screen) but I don’t know if I’ll succeed. I have, however, made it so that the entry fills a […]

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 […]