Jetlag and Taipei
We’ve struggled (me in particular) with Jet lag this trip. On our first cycle we arrived in Taipei and I went to bed at 5pm and didn’t wake up until the next morning. We thought this was it cured but that night we both went to bed about 10pm and woke up at 11;30am the next day missing breakfast, which in my books wasn’t any loss at all as I can’t face noodles for breakfast and they don’t do cereal often. But even so we’ve had a great time in Taipei. We’ve not done too much. We’ve been to see the temple at Longshan which was fascinating as its a...
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Our first proper cycle was good to get under our belt during the Chinese New Year with the much reduced traffic. We didn’t actually have to venture on to too many roads as there’s a very good cycle network here and where that is absent you can tuck yourself in amongst the three million mopeds that dominate the road. They even have their own roads! So sometimes you have a footpath, next to a cycle path, next to a moped dual carriageway next to a main road. It can take you about 20 minutes to get across that lot on foot.And the traffic lights spend ages without changing most have a...
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