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.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
Look at the About<\/a> page for more information on why I’m here. I’ve also created a Jobs<\/a> page to provide advice for anyone thinking of doing the same thing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taiwan"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}