Foreword>: The following article is a continuation of ‘Taiwanese girls and crazy ex-boyfriends‘. You’ll probably want to read that to get the proper context of this article. If you want to experience the worst of a culture, forget travelling off the beaten track, forget booking holidays to places you’ve never heard of and forget moving [...]

Religion is a funny old thing in Taiwan. In day to day life you almost don’t see it. There’s the odd temple here and there blended into the landscape and outside of certain religious days/events, there’s no real schedule to attend them or anything. It’s almost as if for most of the Taiwanese, religion is [...]

Simply put, the last 24 hours of my life have had me going out of my mind. When I came to Taiwan I’d heard a few stories about Taiwanese girls and their sometimes crazyness. Stories about extreme jealousy, being bombarded with phone calls and SMS messages and wanting marriage commitment after a few months were [...]

Last week I found myself walking along the beach with the girlfriend. We’d had a nice dinner and gone for a scooter run around the place and decided we wanted to walk it off some. With the sun down and the mercury still at a pleasant 28-29, a walk along the beach seemed the perfect [...]

Eating out in Taiwan by yourself is for the most part cheaper then anything you could cook up at home. Meat is expensive and a lot of the time you’re lucky to even have a kitchen. It’s only when you want to feed a large group of people, such as a family, that the cost [...]

I’m not quite sure about the significance of it, but this Monday marks Chinese Valentines day here in Taiwan. Due to Monday being a craptastic day for hanging out with your significant other, the bulk of Taiwanese people celebrate their Valentines day over the weekend. Having been seeing a girl steadily for about a month [...]

The aptly named Green World Ecological Farm is kind of like a zoo. With a strong emphasis on the farming and nature, Green World is located just outside of Beipu in Hsinchu Country, Taiwan. The park itself is quite large with a lot of attractions to see, mostly in the form of animal and plant [...]

Let me preface this article by saying that there’s plenty of people who absolutely love their pets to bits in Taiwan. These people treat their pets the same as any other person who loves their animals would and ensure that their companions lead happy and fruitful lives. Like everywhere else though, there’s also those that [...]

For some reason pets in Taiwan cannot be left at home. If you’re going up the street it’s perfectly normal to let your dog hop up onto the limited floor space and come along for the ride. Even if it’s a giant Golden Retriever or Labrador. Just make sure you stick your foot out so [...]

Apart from my pets one of the biggest things I miss from home is my car, a 1960 UK 850 Morris Mini. Unfortunately importing my mini to Taiwan is off the cards due to Taiwan’s regulations on not allowing car imports on cars older then ten years (my car turned 50 this year!). ThusiIn an [...]