Scooter Saga, Part II
Passed the medical exam? Three more tests and a two-hour safety video await you…
Scooter Saga, Part I
Want a scooter license in Taiwan? The first step is a trip to hospital…
But what about China?
The Chinese military’s been simulating an attack on Taiwan, but here on the ground, life goes on…
Random things in my Taiwanese home that just make sense
A tour of my apartment in Kaohsiung, Taiwan…
I won $10 in the Taiwan receipt lottery
Save your receipts for a chance to win half a million dollars…
Beautiful, dusty, historic Tainan
A 399-year-old city of 1.8 million, established by the Dutch, just 30 minutes from Kaohsiung by train…
Do you know all of your body measurements?
A question I didn’t expect on my walk home from the bank…
Open day at Kaohsiung Port Cruise Terminal
Thirteen years after its design won a global competition, the Kaohsiung Port Cruise Terminal finally opened last week…
Of monkeys and mountains
Last week I visited Monkey Mountain three times, and saw plenty of monkeys…
Shopping on Peace Memorial Day
February 28 (‘228’) commemorates the massacre of up to 30,000 Taiwanese civilians and a four-decade period of ‘White Terror’…
Vacuuming my head after a $5.50 haircut
While I couldn’t find one of Taiwan’s infamous $5 street barbers, I got the next-best thing for just 50c more…
The woman who didn’t meow
And other short stories from my first six weeks in Taiwan…