Author: kamiel79

June 21. How are you today?
"Hi, how are you today?"
-"Could have been worse."
"How's business?"
-"What business?"
"The forgetting business."
-"Ah, that one. No idea."
"You know the proverb, do you?"
-"No?"
"No news is good news."
-"You got a point there."

All we want to do is optimize. Maybe we should abandon the believe that what is ...
June 20. Serendipity.
An early flight to Seoul. I am so careful not to miss it that I spend the night in the airport. Twenty box for my taxi driver it's a long way from downtown Taipei to the international airport. I arrive there at 2am and try to lay down on the chairs (why don't they have ...
June 19. Dummkopf!
The Jiufen mines and gold museum are really interesting. We take a local bus there, and pay a little entrance fee. The area is very clean and I like it. You should not forget to read about it in your guidebook though, because there you will read things I cannot even imagine. For me, it's ...
June 17. Another day in Taipei.
Another day in Taipei. We see a real buddhist temple and people praying and worshipping. I watch their movements without being interested in the web of meaning that causes their piety. They are just chanting, waving incense sticks and bowing for their goddess. The temple seems peaceful to me. What else? It's just another busy ...
June 16. Taipei.
Eight hours of time difference demand their toll - I'm tired. I'll keep it short today, I've got other things to do. We walk around downtown Taipei, trying to understand this booming big city, eating lots of streetfood because that's what Taipei is famous for. What else? Chinese neonlights are overwhelming. I would be lost ...
June 15. In the air.

Most of this day I spend in the air. Free airport transportation and checkin were all comfortable, boarding on another large Airbus A330 and installing myself in my seat with at least some legspace (for an average basketball team it would be a good idea to charter a machine with more space between the ...
June 14. Swinging it at Venice Beach and the Griffith Observatory.
The duodenum secretes a protective mucus to prevent it from digesting itself.
Los Angeles is huge but you already know that. What's on the travel menu today? It's all very neat. Venice beach is great fun. I see a couple of weirdos and the place where Arnold Schwarzenegger used to lift weights when he came ...