News: Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm8lmz1xk1o#0 #news

If you love wine and you think you know every Italian wine, I hope you know Passito.
#Enology #wine

Animals of Singapore: a crab

Atlanta, a few years ago
#USA

Classy scooter seen in Taoyuan
#Taiwan

Things I'm working on for Klaio.app - Klaio.app is a URL.

This isn't really a bragging post, since there's nothing to brag regarding < http://claudio.piombetti.com/blog/4283/Things+I'm+working+on+for+Klaio.app

What's under development at Klaio
http://claudio.piombetti.com/blog/4283/things-im-working-on-for-klaioapp
#Klaio #KlaioDev #FlyingOverCentralAsia #Debian #CheapLaptop #KateEditor #HugeIcons

Just landed in Bangkok. These dates returned by Google are interesting, to say the least.

In Taiwan, LED lights are used for everything. And we mean everything!

Fruit stall in a food market in Taoyuan, Taiwan

A little show in front of the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial near Daxi, #Taiwan

A very cute electric moped seen in Taoyuan, #Taiwan

A coral and seashell temple in Taiwan . Shanhu Beike Temple, #Taiwan

Buildings near Toucheng, in Taiwan. One has to assume these are temples, but considering how extravagant Taiwanese architecture is, all bets are off.

Taiwan’s rose-tinted nostalgia for the Japanese years - I have a friend who worked for several years in Taiwan in the early 90s. I asked him the following:
http://claudio.piombetti.com/blog/4280/Taiwan’s+rose-tinted+nostalgia+for+the+Japanese+years
#Taiwan

The beauty of small things.

Dragon fruit egg omelette for breakfast.
#taiwan

Surf culture and relaxed approach to life in Southern Taiwan is well illustrated, I believe, by this picture taken in Benfu village, Liuqiu Island.
#hangten #surf #taiwan

Cardboard sofa at Zela Design Hotel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
#design

If you’re British, you might know that your jokes won’t work well with a German audience.
But, as far as these two cultures might seem, they’re quite close, in the grand scheme of things. I am on holiday in #Taiwan, where the humour is entirely different… so I just refrain from making jokes

Tea time in Taiwan

#Taiwan worked very hard at building their own unique identity, which also integrates aboriginal cultures (16 tribes, AFAIK) while not ignoring the structural and cultural effects of the 50 years of Japanese colonisation.
Pic: administrative building, Ali Shan area

Japanese-style pedestrian crossing in Taipei, Taiwan

Foliage in Staines-upon-Thames, England, October 2024

Client: go crazy
Architect: yes sir!

Seen in Taoyuan, #Taiwan

Classic bikes: Moto Morini 3 1/2, 350cc
#motorbikes

Mural in Tower Hamlets, London

Villa della Regina, Turin - Villa della Regina is a splendid palace on the Turin hills.

There used to be a lot more snow on the Italian Alps. Pic taken in June 1990 in North Piedmont.

How big is a 3.50 euros ice cream in Italy? This big