Fun Taipei Layover: Vegetarian Food, Traditional Massage and Shops

I have just returned from six weeks of study at Nagasaki University and before I attempt several blog post about graduate study and my time in Kyushu, let’s do the somewhat easier posts – how I got there, and my very entertaining Taipei layover, compressed into less than twelve hours.

I have written a bit about my flying China Airlines and my first Taipei layover in previous posts, this Taipei-themed post is about stopping on my way home, more relaxed and rested, yet braving the Taipei weather with about 33C and 80-90% humidity.

I started my day very early. Unable to sleep all night, I got up at 4am, hailed my 50kg of luggage to the Highway Bus stop, and waited an hour for my reserved coach. Which turned up a bit late, but there were quite a few people waiting for the same bus, so I was reassured it would come. Now, Highway buses in Japan are  my final experience of Japanese efficiency and clean public transport, so no surprise that just a few minutes late, I was dropped at Fukuoka Airport International Terminal just a few minutes late, finally got rid of my heavy luggage and three hours later, I was en route to Taoyuan Airport.

Taipei layover: Taoyuan Arrival and Traner( 'load', watchReply ); const commentIframes = document.getElementsByClassName('jetpack_remote_comment'); window.addEventListener('message', function(event) { if (event.origin !== 'https://jetpack.wordpress.com') { return; } if (!event?.data?.iframeUniqueId && !event?.data?.height) { return; } const eventDataUniqueId = event.data.iframeUniqueId; // Change height for the matching comment iframe for (let i = 0; i < commentIframes.length; i++) { const iframe = commentIframes[i]; const url = new URL(iframe.src); const iframeUniqueIdParam = url.searchParams.get('iframe_unique_id'); if (iframeUniqueIdParam == event.data.iframeUniqueId) { iframe.style.height = event.data.height + 'px'; return; } } }); })();