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Planning to get Leh'd
... tour kinda guy…I fired off another e-mail to Tim, David and Nigel.
2 men and 2 machines would be better. When do you retire? 50th birthday celebrations anybody??
Again, the only person to reply was Tim;
I like the sound of that idea. Maybe we can do it sooner than you think
It was 12:49 pm, Monday, January 24, 2011
And so it began…
August 17th 2012
If it’s not too late to make a ...
Build It and They Will Come!
... br> Needless to say, if 20,000 new apartments are being built in the same area at the same time, one needs what we in the west describe as a Unique Selling Point. At which point enter Johnny and his hair-gelled pals from the Taiwan College of Architecture, determined to create a fusion of Gaudi meets Ikea meets Planet Zogg meets well Julius Caesar perhaps..... We shall leave you to judge for yourselves whether you can simply say "build it and they will come!"
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Shadowfax
... these as they fit in a bag and none of the trains or buses have bike racks like those in the US do, but it'd also be slow as hell on the road. The second or third cheapest road bike caught my eye. It was dark grey with black trimmings, sleek without being ostentatious and had a pair of shocks in front. Also the fact that it wasn't the absolute cheapest was a bit of a plus, I figured after a few years of going ...
"Teachah, Teachah!"
... box filled with Angry Bird stickers and these POG-shaped collectable metal disks I never learned the name of. The first half was a rapid-fire series of language games like something out of Mario Party, the second half was usually quiet bookwork and reading. English cram school is extra-curricular so the fun and games quotient tends to be high. More draconian measures are reserved for "Chinese School" ...
Oh!My & The Tower of Pijou
... was Buddy!"
Carrie & Megan had given all the star street dogs around town names and tried to take care of them when time and and work allowed. Megan's dog was friends with Buddy and one other whose name I forgot, both of whom they'd taken in for a bit to get spayed and vaccinated. I should mention, Taiwan has a pretty big stray dog problem, so much as the "Stay Safe" section of Lonely Planet has a bold headline specifically ...