22 April To write about an interesting day, sometimes only a few lines will do. Blog writing is time-consuming and often done late at night and into the small hours, occasionally to be continued early in the morning. In 2013, I started with the first blog and found that for days on end I only managed to score 6 hours of sleep, which in the end I got used to. Keeping things short has it merits too. As for today: In the morning I updated the blog as I was seve...

Although last night we had planned to visit the second part of the huge temple we had seen the previous day, this morning we changed that into something more interesting. We have seen more than half a dozen temples and they slowly start to turn into "AFTs". Instead, we chose the huge Museum of Science and Technology. After the second World War, Taiwan went through an Industrial revolution. The Government encouraged people to turn their homes into workshops and ...

Today we headed east from Taichung where the mountains start as soon as you leave the city. At first, we followed the Freeway leading through the lower part of the mountain range where it becomes evident that the annual problems with Typhoons are a main issue of concern. The amount of water dumped during the passing of a typhoon results in major flooding of the low-lying areas - not only due to the severe rain but mainly to the runoff from the mountains. To comba...