On the third day in Taipei we took a long daytrip to the Yehliu Geopark (about an hour drive from Taipei), Jiufen and Shifen. You can do this trip either by public transport or by hiring a driver. We thought that with a 3-year-old it would be easier…
We learnt by now that Taipei is quite a chaotic and busy city with an abundance of anonymous looking grey buildings and an equally gray smoggy air. Despite this, somehow most of the time felt as though if I was in the middle of a treasure hunt. In between the…
We took a night flight from Auckland to Hong Kong. Hong Kong was the last stop of our trip. The reason for this stopover was to split the trip from New Zealand to the Netherlands in two and make it easier to all of us. Besides, none of us has…
Greymouth was our last destination on the Southern Island of New Zealand. As far as we understood, we were quite lucky with the weather, as there had not been a proper summer yet this year. We happened to be there the only 10 days of full sunshine. In the Northern…