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Travel writer/editor at Culture Trip. Likes noodles and birds. Cinephile/Sinophile. Photos: nomadsscrapbook.com
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Taiwan has completely exceeded all of my expectations as a country, it's absolutely stunning and I'll definitely be coming back - one more night in Taipei tomorrow before heading home, here's some dolphins I met this morning πŸ¬πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό

My hotel in Kaohsiung is next to a Peanuts-themed 7/11, complete with a mock school bus with cafe seating and a giant Snoopy cuddly toy inside...

Coffee Doritos get a 5/10. Neither great, nor awful. But 100% pointless.

Coffee. Doritos. Absolute lawlessness over here.

Some of the high quality prizes to be won in Taiwanese claw machine games include fabric softener, warning triangles, extension cables and police sirens πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό

Just landed in Taipei and what a bloody city it is - just had a few hours of wandering to shake off the jetlag and I can already tell I'm going to love it here πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό

❀️ youtu.be/u90beUXTKwo?...

Me, a professional travel journalist, the day before I get to go on another exciting trip somewhere fun and amazing

That isn't Shakespeare, it's Norma Jean

Are Sunderland going to retire his shirt though?

Eng-er-land.

Shazam but for commentators. Tech nerds, make it happen.

Add this to the list of gigs I can't go to in June because of my awful personal scheduling, including the Remain in Light show in London on Saturday, all of LCD Soundsystem's Brixton residency and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Albert Hall. Some great shows to be missing out on.

Went to Chengdu last week and it was as great as ever - here's how to make sure you don't waste your trip there πŸΌπŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸŒΆοΈ theculturetrip.com/asia/china/a...

If Tarzan Boy by Baltimora isn't the song of the summer this year then it's frankly going to be a bad summer www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n...

Loved searching for birds in Jiuzhaigou today πŸ¦β€β¬›πŸžοΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Here's Plumbeous Water Redstart, Elliot's Laughingthrush, White-browed Laughingthrush and a Sooty Tit

Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan - pictures definitely don't do it justice, but you still end up taking a billion anyway because, well, look at it... πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸžοΈ

Today in Sichuan we found pandas, fish and the museum of Sichuan cuisine - great day tbf πŸΌπŸ‡¨πŸ‡³

Found the matchmakers' corner in Chengdu People's Park - lonely hearts fill out forms detailing height, weight, marriage status, qualifications and personality traits, hang them up in the park and hope someone likes the stats enough to give them a call...or they send their parents to choose for them

The lads having a tab break πŸΌπŸ‡¨πŸ‡³

Chengdu at night - lights, bridges, bars and streetside ear cleaning - one of my favourite cities on earth 🐼

A trying year? Didn't look like they were trying much to me...

Back to China for a little stint today - going to try and see this fella again 🐼

Spotify ruining their own platform by deleting the 'new episodes' list from their app and then giving the most mealy mouthed horseshit explanation of why - why can't people just leave things alone?

The Adidas team coming up with the new #nufc kit

Want a rundown of the different names for fingers in Chinese? Sure you do. We're starting with the classics. Middle finger - δΈ­ζŒ‡ Zhōngzhǐ Little finger - ε°ζŒ‡ Xiǎozhǐ These have exactly the same meaning as they do in English, so we don't need to pay any more attention to them.

Choices, choices...