Explaining why three male, unmarried room mates from Taipei were in San Francisco for ‘entirely independent’ reasons, raised some eyebrows amongst the people that we met. But honest, Abe was visiting family, Armando was jetting through en-route to Austin, and I was leaving Texas on … Read More →
Tag Archives: Transport
In the Bleak Mid-Winter
I am lucky enough to be in Europe for the whole month of December, joyfully mixing two weeks of work, with two weeks of time with family and friends. The weather is cold. So cold, in fact, that it has delivered several dumps of snow … Read More →
iF China Design Awards & Hangzhou
Latest update on the Pudong transformation. I seem to be travelling to China a lot recently. This time, mixed in with some supplier visits and research (oh, and picking up an iF China design award for my wee Vostro V13), I decided to whisk Nikki … Read More →
Hong Kong Babies
Congratulations to Michael & Tanja! Newest Mum & Dad in Hong Kong! Massively proud, and delighted to be able to drop-in on you before the big day … but not the most punctual baby in the world, might I add? See all of you soon! … Read More →
Yangtze Rail
Kunshan station at sunset. Along with the track hardware, the stations are impressive in their design intent. Beyond the Expo, the biggest impact to my China experience on this trip was the incredible improvements in the transport infrastructure, and in particular, the trains. Most of … Read More →
Shanghai Trendspotting
Shanghai is a huge, vibrant, emergent city that has had the world’s gaze upon it for at least the last five years. I might argue, however, that there has not been a any cultural development coming out of the city that has really influenced the … Read More →
Britain: A Showroom for Chinese Automobiles
There is little that is more depressing than considering the slow, lingering death of the British car industry, but in China at least, the heart of British industry beats strong. In a complex turn of events, both Rover and MG were bought by SAIC, and … Read More →
Maokong Gondola
Nikki and I made a run for the city limits, and opted to test-out the newly restarted Maokong Gondola up into the hills. I had attempted twice before to use the service, but prior to the landslide that began to undermine one of the pylons … Read More →
Local Cars for Local People
One of the pleasures of walking around the neighbourhood is checking out the exotic (and not so exotic) machinery on display. Everything from immaculately-prepared hotrods, through to European rust-buckets.