Philippine Travel Notes

This was one time I wished my flight would be delayed heheh! Well sorry me, it was departing not just on time, but even ahead of its published schedule (I suspected)! How'd I know that? Oh just guessing! At 0932H there it was about to dock at the gate. So I surmised, the airline's manager at Taoyuan would want to dispatch that plane at 1032H because the usual 'parking fee' that they pay is only for an hour! I wasn't sad anyway. I just wished I could stay longer to explore all the boarding gate themes of Taipei Taoyuan International Airport . But I know I'll be coming back many times soon, so I look forward to it. Look, at 10:09AM, the forward section of the aircraft belly was done loading. Nagkukwentuhan na sila! I was seated 1F, I could see the loading operations at the forward underside of the plane. Through the years of frequent traveling I learned that most of the time, when a plane's belly is not going to be full, many of our checked-in luggage a...

Let's go home! Here goes my trip from Taipei to Cebu to Tacloban. Well, for this 'chunk' of the blog series, let's cover some things I saw and experienced in going to, and roaming at their airport. Other stories will follow. For an 11AM departure from Taoyuan International Airport, Novotel frontdesk staff must have thought I am weird or OA or praning , for me to leave their hotel at 0730H when the airport is just nearby hehe! They told me 9AM or even 9:30AM would be fine but I said I wanted to go just after breakfast. No need to tell them why I wanted to leave at that time - it pays to be early at the airport for more sightseeing! Look at the vehicle's clock, at 7:28AM I was already aboard the free hotel-to-airport shuttle going to T2 first, then onwards to T1. This was also a front staff's suggestion, I originally intended to ride the MRT. Note that riding an MRT one station away to A13 (@T2) or two stations away to A12 (@T1) is faster than any shutt...