Author: Tina

26 May was the British Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan annual ball.The theme was Glam Rock, and we were encouraged to dress up.Well,as you guessed, here we are, wearing stuff largely made by Tricia. There were lot of attendees, around 400 is my guess.Met some interesting people.Didn’t win anything for the costume, but had fun…

60.Wow!I can’t believe that’s me out there.They say you’re as old as you feel, but there is no escaping reality.When I looked in the bank yesterday there was my first pension payment (from the RAF).There truly is no escaping reality (but thank you Mr Paymaster General at any rate). So what to do for an…

The week after the Chinese New Year holidays was lantern festival. The big display was in the grounds of the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall. These are some pictures of the Lantern “floats” – there were about 40. This year is the year of the pig – as you can see!

Chinese New Year took up the whole 2nd half of February, and then into March.These pictures were taken at a special pre New Year street market.It was VERY crowded here, but really interesting. People were buying lots of stuff, ready for the celebration.The actual holiday (a week off work) lasted from 17-25 February, but there…

I can’t believe it is almost 3 months since I last updated this diary, but here we are in Taipei now and everything has just been so busy. Anyway, I will snatch a few minutes this morning before we go off to our Mandarin class to do at least one small update.We are now living…

All good things come to an end, and next w/e we leave Bangkok. Tonight is our final farewell party (we had one before, for my work – this one is for all the rest of Bangkok (Tricia’s friends)). We have had a great time here, but are looking forward to the year end festivities in…

I have been trying to get to my Blog for ages, but just can’t seem to find the time. I will get round to it soon – but working long days here, flying back and forth every week, then catching up on vereything at w/e just doesn’t leave me any time.Anyway, in the meantime here’s…

Well here we go with another change, hence the reason for the long time interval since my last “blog”.I am now in Taiwan.Trish is still in Thailand.My project in Bangkok was almost finished, and the project here in Taiwan that I was on 4 years ago is still not finished and I was asked to…

Myanmar, or Burma as was.We visited Burma for 5 days in early July – purportedly our last significant (long) weekend away from Bangkok before our departure from Thailand. This trip was largely my choice, as I was enraptured by the thought of “The road to Mandalay”. Trish bought into the idea when she realised that…

The King of Thailand is the world’s longest reigning Monarch at this time. This year he is celebrating 60 years on the throne. In honour of this event there was a royal barge procession on the Chao Praya river in Bangkok. We joined the masses to celebrate this event. Note that everyone is in yellow.…