Following on from Part 2, we had just left the Chiang Kai-Shek memorial and were on our way to the Taipei Zoo. Our route via the MRT We returned and boarded the convenient MRT above ground light rail and made our way to the line which led to the Taipei Zoo. This took us across […]
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Continuing from where I last left off, we’d landed in Taipei the previous night, and on the second day, we spent some time exploring the city. As I mentioned in the last article, we set off from the hotel in the wrong direction. We were heading south from the Ambassador Hotel (rather than north) and […]
Continue ReadingTaiwan – July, 2004 (Part 1)
Introduction It was in April 2004 that I first travelled to Canada to attend a technical conference in the beautiful city of Vancouver, on the Pacific coast in the province of British Columbia. At the time, I had no idea that eventually we would find ourselves living in Vancouver, for that would come a few […]
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