July 20, 2010
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Taipei adventure: Another world

I stepped off the escalator at Longshan Station and was almost overwhelmed by the combination of people and heat.  It was Saturday night and everyone was out on the town despite the 28degree C+ temperatures.  The signs that had guided me thus far on my search for the night market which held the infamous ‘Snake Alley’

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July 19, 2010
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Taipei adventures: ...and on the first day...

‘Well this kind of sucks,’ I thought to myself as I stood outside the locked front door of the building that held my new hostel.  The doorbell didn’t seem to work, the telephone number didn’t connect, and here I was at 12pm with a giant pack on my back and nowhere to go.  The breakfast of

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