One of the hardest things to do is to describe Taiwanese foods, especially street foods, in English. Why? Because you can’t always find exact English translations in the dictionary. So we always use vaguer English terms like dumpling, sauce, stew, etc. because we don’t have the accurate terms in English. My favorite is always Shanghai…
This image is a little blurry, because it was taken in fading light on a mobile phone camera!
Hong Kong in 1992: Night-time Street Scene, originally uploaded by obblogatory. I’ve been scanning some of my very old negatives on my new negative scanner. The pictures are reasonably good quality, but as you’d expect after more than 15 years some are beginning to show their wear and tear of a humid atmosphere!
[Princess (i.e. Princes) Street and Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland] (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress. My home city about 100 years ago!
I have already blogged several times about going on holiday, one trip that brings back the occasional twinge of regret and humor about the situation was our trip to San Francisco and California. We purchased a package tour through a local travel agent in Taipei: hotel rooms and airplane tickets. Oddly enough, I can’t remember…
The wording at the bottom reads: “According to Waste Cleaning Act, dog-owners will get NT$1200 to $6000 fine if they let their dogs shit anywhere.”