Early in the morning, Michael took us to the local railway station for our 2-hour train ride to Taipei. Perhaps a good time to sum up Taiwan. Michael kept on saying "don't tell anyone about what Taiwan is like otherwise they will all want to come", but I am going to do it anyway. I had a different expectation before arriving here. In my mind, I pictured a polluted industrial country full of smoke belching factories, with phlegm spitting Chinese riding their 20-ye...

Michael's factory Dutch ID "Dutch ID" is a brand of bicycle which was a Dutch Idea to begin with. As mentioned before, I used to work for/with Michael in Holland when I lived there for a few years between 2000 and 2006. The Dutch factory produced Recumbent bikes (for those who don't know what they are, I have placed a pic I found on the internet). I think it was somewhere in the 2004-2005 period that things were moved to Taiwan. Meanwhile, Optima, the Recumbent ...

Our days in Taiwan are coming to an end. Kenting, although a bit of a tourist destination, was great. An interesting comparison came to light when we booked the accommodation as we had found a hotel where we could stay in a "Bungalow". For the Dutch, the word bungalow means a rather large, often expensive, freestanding house, with gardens all around. In Australia, it means a small converted shed in the back yard where you can sleep, or it can be used as a “...