Surprisingly, I had more than two weeks off for Chinese New Year, so a friend and I decided, pretty much on a whim, to go to Thailand! We flew into Bangkok (a roughly 4 hour flight from Taipei) in the evening and took an incredibly cheap taxi to our Air BnB apartment. It was too …
Tag: islands
Oileáin Árann – The Aran Islands
I thought it only appropriate to put the name first in Irish, as the Aran Islands are part of the Gaeltacht: the Irish speaking regions of Ireland. While Irish language classes are required in school (and all signs and public announcements throughout the country are in both English and Irish), the adults I've talked usually remember …