Jun 23rd, 2011 at 5:00PM:
There's a lot happening in this photo: some street art, an intriguing flavor of popsicle, cool sneakers, flammable substances near a lit cigarette, the Asian art of effortless squatting. Overall it's a very interesting street scene, captured by Flickr user marisoleta in Taipei, Taiwan. Looking at more of her photos, it seems like a fun destination, full of temples, tall buildings, and weird ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo of the day - street art in Taiwan
Jun 23rd, 2011 at 5:00PM:
There's a lot happening in this photo: some street art, an intriguing flavor of popsicle, cool sneakers, flammable substances near a lit cigarette, the Asian art of effortless squatting. Overall it's a very interesting street scene, captured by Flickr user marisoleta in Taipei, Taiwan. Looking at more of her photos, it seems like a fun destination, full of temples, tall buildings, and weird ...Taiwan: Taipei's traditional Chinese Lantern Festival
Feb 14th, 2011 at 8:00AM:
In Taiwan, the annual traditional Chinese Lantern Festival kicked off in Taipei this past Friday to great fanfare. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou launched this year's festival, which features over three dozen enormous lanterns.
This year's theme lantern is called "Baby." It is almost 70 feet tall and is designed to serve as a symbol of fertility to encourage higher birth rates. Taiwanese ...Zombies with passports: The Walking Dead goes worldwide
Oct 28th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
In order to promote the new show The Walking Dead on AMC, swarms of zombies invaded 26 cities worldwide (including my city of Istanbul, pictured above and filmed here) earlier this week, lurching around major tourist landmarks and generally freaking out passerby. The undead began their sightseeing in Taipei and Hong Kong, then hit European capitols including London, Rome, and Athens. More arose ...Ten wild cab rides that you'll never forget
Sep 20th, 2010 at 3:00PM: Everyone has their own way of immersing in a culture. Some jump in knees-deep into the food scene, massacring the local food blogs and munching their ways through every gastic adventure that they can find. Others enjoy the philosophical and soft-edged days of lounging in street side cafes, watching passers-by and drinking coffee in the early afternoon sun. Here at Gadling though, we prefer the ...Taiwan's road signs will make more sense next year
Sep 21st, 2008 at 10:30AM: When I lived in Taiwan, I normally didn't have a clue where I was going. The signage was not particularly helpful. I didn't read Chinese, and, outside of Taipei, that's mostly what you saw. Even when there were signs in English, there was an inconsistency with how street names were spelled.
Ask people to spell a word phonetically, and you'll see variation. In Taiwan, up until recently, there were ...Metro logos from around the world
Aug 31st, 2008 at 10:00PM: Thanks to Intelligent Travel that has a post on another blog, Prêt à Voyager, here is the heads up on a very cool Web site, metrobits.org.
Metrobits.org, dedicated to subways, lists the various logos of metro systems from around the world and tells the cities where those metros are found. As it turns out, my logo memory is sad. Very sad. So sad.
But, as I browsed the list, I ...A Passover Seder in Taiwan (and other places)
Apr 7th, 2008 at 2:30PM: One of the more interesting aspects of living in another country, I think, is going to a cultural event that is not part of ones own culture or the culture of the host country. In each place I've lived, there have been people from other countries who are also transplants who have brought aspects of their own cultures with them. Such was the case with the Passover Seder I went to at the American ...How to live like Matthew McConaughey
Jan 12th, 2008 at 12:00PM: Living like Matthew McConaughey may involve taking your shirt off, as Matt Damon says in his hilarious impression of the often shirtless star while Damon was a guest on David Letterman. (Here is the YouTube video. It explains why I chose the photo I did.)
Another way that is less dramatic, perhaps, is by living with a family overseas. McConaughey was an exchange student to Australia in 1988 and ...Brain feeling blah? Exercise it.
Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:00AM: On New Year's Eve I spent an hour or so engaged in the board game Battle of the Sexes with friends. I think that was the name of it. We were on vacation at their house in Ottawa, Ohio. A few hours before the game, the female half of this couple took me on a drive through town to show me where the water line was when the town flooded this summer. Their basement family room was royally trashed by ...Stop in Taipei, Save $100
Oct 14th, 2007 at 10:30AM: Good deals abound for the traveler willing to take a Taipei pit stop. Not only will the usual $100 landing fee surcharge be lifted, but if you stay two nights you can get a $79/night deal at participating hotels. The "I Land Paradise" promotion (which applies to any Asia-bound China Airlines or EVA Airways flight departing from a U.S. airport) starts Oct. 1 and runs until June 30. The main ...Heart-Shaped Destinations
Feb 7th, 2007 at 6:53PM: Okay, so we wouldn't've known about these heart-shaped places if it hadn't been for the eagle-eyes over at Google Sightseeing. Nevertheless, here are some heart-shaped objects that can be seen from way up high:
There's a heart-shaped forest near the Kansas City airport.
Somebody cleverer than me used weed killer and "drew" a heart (and a smiley face) into a hillside near Simi Valley.
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