This morning the weather app's warning of heatstroke and dehydration if you spend too long outside, the sky's hazy, streaked and studded by high clouds, drifting wisps casting pale shadows upon the hot concrete as they pass, continuing the experiment of eiskaffee for breakfast.

Walking into town for a late lunch, having decided to take the mrt up to Tamsui, missing the worst of the heat and taking advantage of the northwind, to blow me back along the river towards the city, a good way to spend a couple of hours. But it's still hot, the river sparkling beneath the sun, a slight haze rising from the water and clinging to the other shore.