Today officially marked the last day of the 2017 Summer Universiade, aka the Taipei 2017 Universiade, an Olympics-lite event organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation. This was the biggest sporting event Taipei has ever hosted, and they pulled out all the stops. Although tickets to all events were sold out by […]
MRT
Getting Around Taipei
Bear with me, I’m devoting an entire post as an ode to the public transportation system in Taipei. I know it’s not fair to compare the 21 year old metro system here, the MRT, to the 92 year old one in New York City, but I can’t help myself. Not only are the metro stations […]