Showing posts with label Taoyuan International Airport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taoyuan International Airport. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 June 2019

Another one

4 pm, 6 employees stand and leave the office. It's quite the movement and draws attention from around the office. The crew, contains a spread of key personnel from the company, not enough for key-man risk, but definitely enough to leave a gap. It's the second trip with colleagues. A motley crew of travellers with a weekend trip away the target.

Our flight is delayed an hour at Hong Kong International Airport, and the knock-on-effect is followed by a meaty 40 minute immigration line in Taoyuan Airport. We clear customs, find our driver and check into our hotel by 11 pm. An ex-colleague (Yan the man) meets us, 20 minutes later, his flight was almost 1 hour after ours'. 7 hours door to door, which is counter to the initial reason why we selected Taipei. In any case, we hit Tonghua Night Market for 30 minutes of frenetic eating followed by a couple of drinks around the area. Coincidentally bump into Kyall, it's a small world.







Current reading "More Money Than God"

Monday, 5 October 2015

The farewell continues: Taipei

Back to back weekends - this weekend, Taipei. One night.

Memorable tidbit #1
First time I've selected a "special meal" on a flight. I went for the "Low Fat" option. Surprisingly not too bad.



Memorable tidbit #2
Scheduled departure: 16:40, expected arrival in Hong Kong: 18:25. Actual departure: 21:00, arrival back in Hong Kong 23:30. Typhoon decided to batter Hong Kong, forcing the airport to temporarily shutdown and for the plane to be stuck in multiple holding zones.