Departure/Arrival 30-9-09

So where to begin...well, up at 630ish for the nine o'clock flight to Sydney. After packing the night before or half packing I ended up finishing it within seconds of leaving for the airport. Farewell to the family, boarded to Syd-oh no wait its delayed by 20mins...as in no boarding till 9.20am. Frustrated when you have little time to catch a flight to Taipei, needing to make it to the International terminal aswell. Was lucky to see the check in guy just as he was leaving to goto the flight area, phew.

mmm, pork & rice. it actually tasted better than it looks. true fact.

So the flight was ok..I was lucky enough to get an aisle seat with 2 empty seats between me & a larger aussie gentleman. Movies watched on way to Taipei: Star Trek (quite lame).
After roughly 10hrs (7.25pm) we hit Taipei with a humid breeze felt without leaving airport. Somehow managed to kill 4hrs, involved a little bit of wifi & plenty of walking around like 'ooo-aaa' at all the overpriced shopping..duty free looked orrite but didn't find a currency exchange. Noticed a few Aussies around..not many though.

Taipei flight was actually quite good (besides the filthy "omlette" i was given for breakfast). Ended up watching half hour of the hangover before falling asleep and waking up to breakfast. 7hr sleep? Sweeeeet.

Sapporo..very nice. Had a few of these.

Hit Vancouver at 7.30pm the same day....WTF...I arrived at Taipei at the same time, had a 4hr stopover and a 10hr flight...and its the same time...bloody timezones. So head over to baggage & customs, ended up meeting Josh, a guy from Canberra also going through the travel&work co I was..we end up sharing a 4WD to the hostel he is also staying at.

Already weirded out at this stage by the left hand driving..also enjoyed the view of all the neon lights everywhere. So got to the hostel, chucked our bags in our rooms (so far im sharing with an Irish dude.) We wandered out onto the street to take it all in. First person to approach us with a black dude telling us to name any word in the dictionary and he could define it. I stared blankly like huh? wtf is this dude on about...after failing to give him a word he asked for some change for pizza (big slice pizza store next door) mm, nice try dude. We went back inside and had a few brewskis (mooseheads, alexander keiths both nice & different). Bed time..the flight has caught upto us

Day 1 to be posted soon..