Arrived in Taiwan

I'm sitting here in Taiwan, in Bernie's apartment reading the BBC website, whoooppeeeee! For those who don't know, it's blocked in the mainland.

My travels from Dalian to Taiwan were fine. Flight from Dalian to Seoul was full of Korean businessmen. Very few Chinese on it. The man beside me was also a businessman and he'd actually been to Dublin!

I couldn't get an impression of Korea from the airport. One thing was the flight transfer system. No obvious transfer desk unless you went looking for it. I asked information and said I would have to check in at the gate! Never did that before.

I did manage to see a Korean game show, which was well wacky! There were three guys and three girls and the aim of it seemed to be to try and sing a song without making mistakes. They were songs in Korean to the tune of Jingle Bells and so on! The mad thing was that when they made a mistake, a huge cymbal type thing descended from above and clattered them over the head! Great! I met a Scottish lad on the flight from Seoul to Taipei. The only 2 white guys on the flight and we were together. We had the emergency exit seats, you see. He had great things to say about Korea.

Arrived in Taipei airport and some shifty guy offered his car to me. Didn't seem to be many other cars around so I took it. He was grand and we had a good chat in Chinese and English. We had great time trying to find Bernie's toad in longtan. We must have asked around 6 different people!! Got there in the end and everything was fine!

So far, I haven't been here long enough or seen anything to say if this place is much different from the mainland. Will do at a later stage!