Clean-forgotten to follow up my first post on Taipei with a second. So, a bit late, more than a year late in fact and therefore recapping, I was flying from Australia to the Netherlands on China Airlines, naively thinking that the great international stoush about Taiwan couldn’t be all that serious if a mainland ChineseContinue reading “Hulk Fried Rice, Taipei (2)”
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Tough little cars
Back in the 1980s, I once almost bought a Datsun 1200 manual. When I inspected it, there was a problem starting the car, but the guy selling said that that wasn’t a problem. “They’re tough little cars, Datsuns”, he said. He fidgeted under the bonnet a bit, then told me, “Start her, mate”. I hadContinue reading “Tough little cars”
Hulk Fried Rice Taipei (1)
The only problem with the AU$1,500 Sydney-to-Amsterdam return airfare with an 18-hour layover in Taipei is that we hit Taipei at 6am, and they’re rather funny with their hotel check-in times in Taipei. It’s got to be 3pm. Even Airbnb hosts stick to this like glue I found when looking for a place to recoverContinue reading “Hulk Fried Rice Taipei (1)”
