Tag: Taiwan tales
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Geek world heaven
Taiwan is a great place for tech. You can buy the latest electronics as well as bigger gadgets, many not sold elsewhere.
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A murder that changed the world
How a murder in Taiwan led to the crackdown by Chinese authorities in Hong Kong
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Redefining convenience
When we explained to a Taiwanese friend that small towns in the UK and Europe don’t have 7-11 convenience stores, she was shocked. “How do people eat?”, she asked.
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Non – ce n’est pas un dish cloth
Arriving somewhere new, it’s normal to find many things that are unfamiliar. But some are totally incomprehensible. Dogs on scooters and dish driers, for example.
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Swirling, soaking, shuddering and smoking
We feel an earthquake every week or so. Then there’s the typhoons, the volcanoes and the rain.
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Your spaceship is arriving at platform two. The sounds of Taiwan
After the church bells of Switzerland, the first sound we noticed in Taiwan was the pleasing and lyrical chime that announces the arrival of the garbage truck each evening.
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It’s raining. You need a banana
‘A table is not a relationship’, I hear myself saying, a sentence I’m almost certain I’ve never said before.
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You won how much for doing what now?
It took us a long time to work out why shop assistants always looked at us like we were crazy.
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Learn talk not gibberish
In Hong Kong and Singapore we found paying tax was pretty much pain free. Austria was a bit more complicated. Switzerland was the worst. Taiwan was best of all.