I decided rather than spending the full time in Taipei, I’d make a brief visit to Hualien. The 4(ish) hour train journey was really pretty going through the country, but the weather looked very ominous when I arrived. Luckily, the hostel – The Black Bear, was close to the station. The lady was nice but forgot to give me the hostel room’s door key that was a fun trip up and down the stairs in the humidity and with the backpack on. But the hostel was nice and...

Taiwan! I have to admit I was curious about coming here, the only thing I knew about Taiwan was that when I was growing up everything seemed to be ‘Made in Taiwan’. It was really easy to work the metro from Taipei’s domestic airport (Songshan) to my stop; Liuzhangli. And hello humidity!!! It’s been a couple of months since I’ve encountered that and to make it worse, I started walking in the direction of the hostel and noticed a weird loud siren, a bit l...

I woke up to a nice message from the girls wishing me well with my travels and I headed to the main bus station to grab my bus up to Seoul for my final stop in South Korea. Once I arrived in Seoul, trying to suss out the metro system and even the ticketing for it is a nightmare and following the signs down to the line I wanted seemed to take me on a wild goose chase. Anyway I worked it out and made it to Hongik University stop to find my ticket wouldn’t let me ...

Time to jump on yet another bus, this time to Gwangju, easier said than done as I went to the bus station to buy my ticket to be told it was the other bus station, which is where?! After trying to ask a few people whilst aimlessly walking around, I think a bus depot car park, I was pointed in the direction of another bus that was the correct bus station. Grabbed my ticket and boarded the bus. We stopped off at a service station and I got ‘chatting’ to a very ...

Before jumping on the bus to Daegu, I spent a bit of the morning enjoying a coffee with Soli and Verena. Then we did the goodbyes as I grabbed my bag and jumped on the bus to the bus stop (learnt form the walk to the hostel that I can’t bring myself to walk all that way). The bus to Daegu only took a few hours and was painless. From the bus station it was relatively easy to navigate the train a couple of stops down to the main station; Daegu. Outside the statio...