The trip to Taiwan started with a very early morning start for our international flight. We, being the rule abiding traveller’s we are, planned that we would be at the airport 2 hours before the flight as most international flights require. We pulled up in front of the dark, empty airport with not a person in sight. We soon realised that the 2 hour rule does not apply for the first flights of the day as the airport only opened an hour before the flight, a fact neither of us thought of to check.