As typhoon Megi passes by I just read that yesterday on the east coast and in Taipei we had as much rain in one day as we typically have in Germany in one year … more than 700 mm!
Today it looks much better and we’ll try to get to some gorges further south.

After the last day of the conference I started a little road trip with Troels and a friend of his to visit the east coast of Taiwan. Due to Megi we had rain for most of the day. Still we managed to get some good views, had some nice (and expensive) tea in Taiwan’s most famous tea area Jioufen. We drove along the sea to watch some massive waves break at the shore, had some great fresh seafood for lunch and finally ended in Troels’ friend beach house after some time in some nearby hot springs.

After two and a half days of computing in physics, a nice reception on Monday and some visits to various markets and sights in town, we had a little trip to a nearby geopark in Yahliu, with some nice stone/rock formations by the sea.

Just arrived in Taipei after a long long trip via Vienna. At least this time the plane had a proper entertainment system. Actually they even had games with a little gamepad like remote also featuring a satellite phone and credit card reader. Fancy!
Anyways now I am in Taipei tired as shit and not able to chech in to my room for the next six hours… dammit.