Taiwan
Nine days on the island — Taipei, the east coast, and a great deal of rain.
I arrived in Taipei with no plan beyond a hostel booking and left nine days later having barely scratched the surface. The island is small on a map and enormous on the ground — mountains in the middle, a fast train around the edge, and rain that arrives like an appointment.
These are the photographs I kept. Most of them are of ordinary things: a street, a doorway, a cup of tea going cold. That is usually where the trip actually lives.
