Here I am in Taipei, my feet destroyed by underestimating the scale of some guidebook maps. My journey was about par for the course; minor delays, unexpected niceties of flying in Asia, and so on.<\/p>\n
At the airport my check-in took about 25 minutes—with no line—because “something was wrong.” I was half-expecting to find myself extraordinarily rendered, but it seems that “something” was taken care of. The flight was barely over an hour and a third on a very empty, very new EVA Airwarys Boeing 777-300ER, in their “Premium Economy cabin” (which they don’t mind if you sit in with an Economy ticket on short-haul flights). I can see why they didn’t mind—there couldn’t have been more than 60 people or so on the plane. I wonder why?<\/p>\n
EVA seems to have its own (or nearly its own) little terminal at TPE. Immigration was surprisingly quick, even for non-citizens, but I guess that happens when you have just 60 people coming off a wide-body jet. After wandering around the airport, finding an ATM and a bus company, nothing exciting happened until I arrived at the Taipei train station… around midnight, requiring a painfully expensive roaming call to keep the hostel’s doors open.<\/p>\n
I’m in the Happy Family Hostel III, a decidedly basic place with a nice owner. Maybe I’ll remember to take a picture or two of my quarters before leaving.<\/p>\n
Today I’ve seen Taipei 101, the Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Halls, the 2-28 Peace Park, City Hall and its Discovery Center… hmm… lots of big streets… OK, I don’t remember everything. Maybe my pictures do. I’ll try to upload some from here.<\/p>\n
Here I am in Taipei, my feet destroyed by underestimating the scale of some guidebook maps. My journey was about par for the course; minor delays, unexpected niceties of flying in Asia, and so on. At the airport my check-in took about 25 minutes—with no line—because “something was wrong.” I was half-expecting to find myself … Continue reading Taipei, part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65,66],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-taipei","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}