#travel life
The backside of Taiwan’s equivalent of the White House. You can easily tell that the building was designed during Japan’s colonial rule over Taiwan.
Presidential Office Building, Taipei, Taiwan
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You can get guided tours of this place. Enjoy the beauty of the grounds while learning about the rich history of the mansion/gardens.
Lin Family Mansion and Garden, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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Longshan Temple was badly damaged during WWII when Americans bombed the temple because they suspected that the Japanese were hiding weapons inside.
Longshan Temple, Taipei, Taiwan
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joshua tree 2021 | visiting a ntnl park each month
To hotels that look like palaces
Interiors of Bar Palladio, Jaipur
Pastel doors found at City Palace, Jaìpur
99% of the time our van is not as tidy as it looks in photos.
It’s a tiny space, but it gets messy just as quickly as we can tidy it again.
Camera gear, shopping and clothes end up scattered across the floor, cupboards open while we’re driving, things fall over and smash on bumpy roads.
We squeeze as many days as we can out of our bedding and clothes before we have to wash them again, probably a few too many. When the cab’s not filled with puddles from the rain it’s usually coated in dust and mud.
Living in a van is far from the idyllic few minutes in which we snap the photos for our feed, before the mess overwhelms us again.
It’s challenging living your life in a 6m2 space shared between two of you. Our bed is our sofa, our office, our dining room; our kitchen doubles as a bathroom, a washroom, a hallway.
But that hour in the morning when all the clutter is cleared away, ready for the day’s adventure ahead, and those moments when we crawl into a freshly made bed with clean sheets from the laundrette, it’s little moments like these that seem somehow amplified and make us appreciate the simple things in life all the more.
