 | the girls and jeremy
2004-12-12, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | on friday night hanna and aimee flew in from phnom penh and managed, without any apparent difficulty, to find PS cafe and pull up some chairs. it was so cosy to see them again and the night was spent ... |
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| temples and trains
2004-12-10, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | contrary to popular belief i do not always wake up after midday. today i managed just 10 minutes shy of the magic hour. the sun dressed the neighbourhood in soft tones and i simply had to get outside ... |
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| the grand karaoke experience
2004-12-03, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | friday night unfolded in typical fashion. a beer was poured, a cigarette lit. the typhoon warning dissuaded john from attempting to ride his scooter to PS so we shared a cab, a wise choice. Arriving a... |
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| photographs
2004-11-30, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | the day has been spent in the company of my cameras and a stunning sky. i walked out at midday and headed through mazy streets, into subways, through tunnels, down alleys and main roads, pausing to lo... |
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| farwell formosa
2004-10-27, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | one month sped by, almost too quickly. my last night was spent with good friends at PS relaxing, listening to music, sipping whisky, talking about photos, getting email addresses. midday i packed and ... |
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| typhoon
2004-10-26, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | today taipei stood still and braced itself. trees were uprooted outside our house and i woke up numerous times to the sound of whuuuuur whoooooooo waaaaaoooooo outside the walls. the windows were leak... |
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| a looooooooong weekend
2004-10-19, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | it all started the night before james' birthday on friday. as usual we went to PS cafe, sat around drinking lattes and chatting with random customers....come 1am robbie, ange, nikki and a few stranger... |
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| wulai
2004-10-16, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | sunshine bright we exited the building, seated at the cafe, latte's ordered and robbie waited upon. robbie arrived, looking hungover, we mounted the scooters, 3 bikes, 6 friends, off to wulai for a da... |
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| earthquake
2004-10-14, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | today for the third time in my life i was in an earthquake. ok, its not alot of times.. but this one was different.. i was sitting alone, on the 32nd floor, writing on the laptop when the room started... |
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| the descent (trip to taroko pt. 5)
2004-10-13, taroko gorge, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | i won't lie but i think the sound of birds woke me up, either that or some strange dream within which the previous happened. we threw what we had with us in our backpacks and headed down to the bikes.... |
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| ride in the clouds (trip to taroko pt. 3)
2004-10-11, taroko, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | the road opened. the bikes hesitated as we ascended, the road became steeper, the nature more unreal. a cold wind began to cool us as the altitude changed and the peaks became a carpet of odd symmetry... |
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| wenshan hot springs (trip to taroko pt. 2 )
2004-10-10, taroko, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | leaving a drunk, a chef and a spanish speaking cook we paid a visit to the store next door to stock up on some cold beers and cigarettes. back on the scooters and up the highway 3 kms to the hot sprin... |
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| leaving taipei (trip to taroko pt. 1 )
2004-10-10, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | ignoring the alarm clock i turned over and continued sleeping for a few more blessed minutes. lucidity hit me and the packing began. one small backpack each, goodbyes to john, a coffee downstairs with... |
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| 12 pm
2004-10-06, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | perhaps the most interesting and beautiful night market in asia was visited tonight, along with tom and john. a glittering, noisy, colourful plethora of shops and stalls all gleaming with brand new ar... |
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| PS cafe and smoothie disasters
2004-10-06, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | tom and i took over opening the cafe monday and tuesday from 1-6pm so that jared and john could chill out. we had not been given full instructions on how to make everything which didn't really matter ... |
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| 101
2004-10-02, taiwan, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | toms friend jeremy met us at the PS cafe and we headed by MTR to the tallest building in the world (soon to be second) the 101 tower. the sky was angry and we felt his spite the entire walk past futur... |
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| the gallery
2004-10-01, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | after two days of slaving on the floor cutting out frames for our photos, tom and i finally had them all up and in place and looking marvellous! at six tom and i made a mad dash for the photo shop to ... |
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| departure and arrival
2004-09-28, taipei, Taiwan. By: lomotravel | | left under a dark sky, took the 619 to central lugging heavy bags. found the airport express, checked in at the train station, rode the train trying to keep my eyes open, boarded the japan asia airlin... |
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 | Exploring Taiwan #9
2001-07-27, Shilin, Taiwan. By: thunder | | Yesterday I took a taxi ride to Shilin in the morning to the National Palace Museum and then again in the evening I took the subway to the Shilin Night Market. The museum was built in 1965 in memory o... |
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| Ni chi le bao Ma? How are you Taipei? #8
2001-07-26, Taipei, Taiwan. By: thunder | | To compare Taipei, Taiwan with other cities I've visited would be unfair because its history is as different as its people.
Once known as
Formosa this island nation has always been populated by... |
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 | Taipei
2002-04-03, Taipei, Taiwan. By: pedro | | I've visited Taipei with my Hong Kong friends just three days after the March 31st, 2002 earthquake in Taiwan. We didn't find out any damage and Taiwanese did seem to enjoy their normal lives. However... |
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 | Taiwan in Review
2002-03-23, Taipei, Taiwan. By: hawkinsd | | I stood at the podium and looked down on 300 or so attentive Taiwanese businessmen and women. My heart, stomach and sphincter were conspiring against me but this is what I had agreed to do, although I... |
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 | Sinlaku - typhoon in Taiwan
2002-09-06, Taipei, Taiwan. By: jimi | | We left from Vietnam on friday and first we were surprised that they flew that flight when typhoon Sinlaku was just about to hit to Taiwan. Anyway flight went quite well and we arrived t o a bit clowd... |
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 | Typhoon Sinlaku in Taipei
2002-09-06, Taipei, Taiwan. By: temppu_ | | My plane made it to Taipei just before the typhoon arrived. Unfortunately I had to take next plane to Hongkong so I wouldn't miss my flight back home. So this time, my Taiwan experiance was only 1,5 h... |
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