Just so you know, after my long 8-day absence (that probably wasn't even felt), I'm now home. I touched down in Singapore's Changi International Airport at 6.10pm on board SQ871 this evening. So it's pretty obvious by now that I made it home in one piece, safe and sound.

Taiwan, in short, was the land of the squat toilets to me, 8 days there was enough to make me worship pedestal toilets, mainly because the squat toilets outnumber pedestal toilets by a factor of 20, at least. It is the country that has 70% of its land covered in hills and mountains. It's the first country I've been to where their international airport isn't even in a major city (it's one state away from the capital, Taipei). It's the first country where I did some 25% of my shopping all in the airport's duty free shops because the night markets were disappointing.

Alright, I will be doing a more in-depth description of my trip, but let me transfer my photos first, alright? Cya then