Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

This post on the Jardin Botánico Carlos Thays may break a record for the shortest entry in this journal. After the long flight that landed...

Before today, I couldn’t say I’d ever alighted anywhere in South America, but here I am in Buenos Aires. So, as of the publication of...

And so it ends. Mid-afternoon today, I’ll head to the airport to get my flight back to Toronto, my hometown. I took it easy this...

I returned to Taipei from Tainan by high-speed train this morning. A little after 1:00, I checked into my hotel, settled in a bit, and...

This afternoon in Tainan, Taiwan, I made a second, and this time successful, attempt to visit the National Museum of Taiwan Literature. I then looked...

As was more than once the case in Tainan, and in my life in general, I was a bit confused this morning. I took a...

This afternoon I kind of visited the National Museum of Taiwan Literature and really visited the two buildings of the Tainan Art Museum. (The two...

If there’s one thing Tainan is not short of it’s temples. No matter how massive a stick you wave, Tainan has more temples than you...

After leaving the Anping District this morning, I took in two temples (Confucius Temple and Grand Mazu Temple), a department store (Hayashi), and a fort...

My guidebook recommends a few sights in the Anping District of Tainan, Taiwan. I am in Tainan for a few days, so I headed there...