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What have I been doing? Lots.If you look at Dave’s blog you will see photos from Joanne and Paul’s visit in early July. I will write about that later. The main event has been Dave and his colon cancer!Dave decided, now he has turned 60, to go for a BIG annual check up here in…

Just before Paul and Joanne left we went up into the mountains close to our home for a last dinner together. What a fabulous place. An old Chinese country family house. The kitchen was across the road. Not a busy raod thanfully, so dinner arrived OK. After lots of good food, and of course, planty…

These are some interesting pictures taken while being tourists around Taipei. In one of the night market / tourist places called snake alley (‘cos they drain blood from live snakes for you to drink) there was an artist doing character work on fans and paintings. Who could resist (the fans – not the snakes blood)?…

We spent 3 days at Green Island, off the SE coast of TW in the Pacific, about 40 minute ferry ride from the port on TW Island.Upon arrival at Green Island the first order of the day was, of course, drinky poo’s. There were some interesting things around the small island, the rocks above are…

We spent a long w/e in July at the Taroko Gorge. It was fabulous.

We came across a sight today. An every day thing to see . . someone out walking his animals. But . . . take a look at this. . . yes, walking the pig, and the chicken. Lazy chicken eh?

We decided we would like to visit a beach, here in Taiwan, although none came very well recommended. I decided to try and find someplace nice to go for Dave’s big birthday back in May. After visiting a travel agents where everything was on line (I didn’t like it as they had no maps to…

I cannot believe it is a month since I last blogged! What have I been doing? First we went out for dinner with the cast of “I Get a Kick out of you” It was a lovely Sun evening, we had a large area of a basement room in a restaurant and we had nearly…

I did get to spend a day riding around on the steam train. It was amazing. We stopped at a few stations and there were hundreds of people at each one. Then all along the track loads of people were out to wave and smile for the train (or was it for me?). The reaction…

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…