15th August 2019

Just a travel day today. Woke up at 9, packed my bag and ate breakfast.

Headed off once Harry awoke at 11. We were travelling from Seoul to Daegu International airport. We chose to fly from daegu just as it was so much cheaper, even including the travel between Daegu and Seoul.

A train and 2 buses got us there in 4 hours and surprisingly we had no problems.

Apart from my nerves on this bus where I was refreshing the results page every minute from about 16:15 eager to know my results.

Once we arrived at the airport, I treated myself to an ice cream as I was pleased with my grade.

16th August

We landed at midnight and public transport didn’t start running until about 5am, so we napped in the airport until about 7:30am.

We got a bus and a train to the UZ hostel. Check in wasn’t until 3pm and it was 10:30am so he requested us to wait. I asked if we could check in early and he mentioned there might be cleaners, but said we didn’t mind the noise and he just let us in! Snug room mind, hardly a pod room for two.

We had a nap as we hadn’t slept too well, then headed around the New City, not quite Taipei. The city was the same as most other southeast Asian cities and it was beginning to make me appreciate the UK more.

In the evening, Harry stayed home as he wanted to sort his CV for Australia and I went to town with a few Taiwanese people.

I think the actual city of Taipei will be much more lively. The people in the New City were friendly, however the city was a bit dull. – so for mine and Harry’s last couple nights together we booked a party hostel in central Taipei.