I’m in Taiwan! I spent a month getting here from London, with 1 month in Western and Eastern Europe and roughly 16 hours on planes.

The journey to the airport in Istanbul was quite stressful and would have been more problematic had I not left so much time to get there! I figured out from the airplane tickets which airport I needed to go to and didn’t realise that the line on the metro map I thought I’d be taking to the airport was a tram and so had to change half-way through. As a girl at the Kadikoy ferry station had taken my last Lira as payment for helping me work the ticket machine, I had to find an ATM in the rush and mid-day heat, only to have to change trams and then change to get back onto the metro again. Eventually I got to the airport, had 15 minutes until check-in closed and was still going through security. With 10 minutes before the gate shut, I made it and went and collapsed on the plane for the flight to Taipei!

Look at the About page for more information on why I’m here. I’ve also created a Jobs page to provide advice for anyone thinking of doing the same thing.