a change in the weather... the ferry running and so off to keelung in hope of getting tickets... the online booking system hasn't worked in an age, so there was the chance that it would be a train journey, night market and return train to taipei...happily it worked out better than that and so we got tickets and, on the fifth day, boarded... quite wonderful, the summits of yangminshan silhouetted against the glare of the city behind them, the northern highway glittering parallel lines of light, the undefined coastline, ribbons rising into valleys and disappearing from view, bright moon and stars, memories of oban to tiree... different worlds and yet the same, afloat upon the dark waters, the endless heavens above... some things i think you never tire of, never lose that sense of wonder, of smallness when set against the tidal night... the rabbit hole upon the rails, variations upon a theme...