Kate Billington

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701 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jun

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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson · Coffee, Cats & Conversation ☕️ Kate Billington’s 900-Day Streak in Taiwan [991] · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

And I watched that whole building like shake from side to side while I was also shaking.

And I remember thinking that, you know, this, if that building falls, that's like the whole neighborhood is going to,

feel the impact of that and it was really like it looked like it could for all but it didn't obviously that would have been big news and afterwards I was just like oh god I wish I'd taken my phone with me and recorded that because I could have sold that footage to the BBC never mind

I think the important thing is that I was lucky to survive the earthquake and should probably not be thinking about whether or not I got it recorded.

So yeah, that was a really big one.

Actually, I say I'm lucky to survive it, but Taiwan had an incredibly low death toll from that earthquake considering the size of the earthquake.

I think in total, I think under 20 people died in the earthquake and a lot of them were hikers.

So yeah,

you know there was rockfall and you're just very unlucky if you're like hiking in a gorge or something at that point and there's rockfall you can't you know you can't predict that yeah I guess a lot of the buildings very good building speculations so

Yeah, it is quite scary.

There have been some others since that big one, but nowhere near as big.

I still think about it.

Which platform?

A friend of mine here, well, I don't know him very well, but a guy I know here missed a train once and he accidentally got on the wrong train.

They've got a really good high-speed rail service in Taiwan that can take you kind of all over the country.

And he accidentally got on the wrong high speed rail all the way down to the south of the country, like the furthest it goes.

And he realized once he was on it, but obviously it doesn't stop very often, right?

Because it's high speed.

So it only goes to, you know, three or four stops on the way.

So when he was...

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