We came to Tainan last night, at last by ourselves for a short while. In the morning I went to collect the GF’s birthday present – I’ve rented a Playstation for a month and bought him The Last of Us II, a game he dearly wanted to play. It was a bit of a hassle: […]
Strange folks
Last night the GF and I went off to the soba place again for dinner. First I went shopping in Zhongshan, and bought myself a linen skirt I had admired before, and a top suitable for hiking in (or, more correctly, yoga in). I also bought a bubble tea and sat waiting for the GF […]
A partial recovery
I succeeded in putting myself in partial isolation today, at least until dinner when the Woodland Creature and the Boddhisattva returned home early so I made food for them as well (or at least for the Boddhisattva; the Woodland Creature decided to order in). Luckily the break was enough that I was fairly cheerful during […]
Practicality
Sunday was meant to be a day of practicality. I went out with the intention of purchasing three new tops, one of them black, cleansing oil, face wash and a few other bits and pieces. I returned with a black linen top and the intent to return and buy a linen shirt. Plus two bowls […]
More distancing
Yesterday morning the GF and I walked westwards, through the Botanical Gardens which were small, but free and very pleasant. I do like tropical botanical gardens, the wild lushness combined with being well-kept. The streets were quite quiet, late morning on a Sunday, and Easter I suppose, though there were few indications of that despite […]
Breakfast of champions
This morning the Boddhisattva and I rose early and went off to breakfast at Fuhang, the most famous breakfast place in the country and which usually has queues of an hour or more. Thank you global pandemic, the queue was only 10 minutes this Sunday morning and soon we had our bowls of soy milk […]
Flower shopping
The GF woke up late and I waited for him, so we parted ways with the Boddhisattva and the Woodland Creature for the day, planning to meet up in the early evening at the Jian Guo Flower Market to buy some plants and flowers for the flat. So off we went, first for lunch at […]
Da’an town
Apologies for the tortured pun. As readers familiar with Taipei will gather, we (the Bodhisattva, Woodland Creature and I) went into town today, to one of the nice parts of the city. Started around Yongkang Street, which is a slightly touristy but nice street with plenty of tea shops and a startling number of umbrella […]
East of the world
I am in Taiwan, and will be here for at least the next two months, perhaps longer. The rest of the journey was fairly smooth though it was notable how the density of masks skyrocketed – on the flight itself, there was only one small family without masks and they were European. The air of […]
Clean out
As part of my ongoing cleanout of the Lahore house, I hired a Filipina woman yesterday, for two days of intensive cleaning. I generally feel rather conflicted about Pakistanis who employ Filipina maids as I find it exploitative of the maids and unfair to the many, many poor Pakistanis who are not employed, paid those […]