Valencia

Culture

Flying Dutchman - December 12, 2020

The quality and variety of Chinese food in the West, Spain included, has increased significantly in the last two to three last decades thanks...

Culture

Flying Dutchman - December 5, 2020

While living in Taiwan for almost 20 years, as a German who grew up in Spain totally bilingual, I was regularly asked by Taiwanese...

History

Flying Dutchman - November 20, 2020

45 years ago on November 20th, 1975, the man that had shaped Spain for almost four decades, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, died in Madrid. Born...

Culture

Flying Dutchman - November 18, 2020

Spain is well-known for its amazing number of bars, which have little in common with those in the United States. They are establishments where...

Culture

Flying Dutchman - November 12, 2020

To deal with banks in Spain mostly makes me feel like being in a novel by famous Bohemian writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924), as the...

Culture

Flying Dutchman - November 11, 2020

I thought that after two and a half years in Spain I was quite tired of paella, the world-famous Spanish national dish which originated...

My personal experiences

Flying Dutchman - November 5, 2020

While I was watching the storm that hit Valencia yesterday from my balcony around midnight, images of the many typhoons I experienced in Taiwan...

My personal experiences

Flying Dutchman - October 19, 2020

I live near the beach and still try to go there every late afternoon for a short swim in the Mediterranean. The water got...

Asian history

Flying Dutchman - October 16, 2020

After the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894/95, by signing the Treaty of Shimonoseki on April 17th, 1895, China was forced to concede Taiwan to...

Features

Flying Dutchman - August 27, 2020

In my humble opinion, a modern State is also defined by an effective administration that takes its citizens and their issues seriously. Taiwan has...

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