When we woke up the next morning, I still couldn’t feel my right toe. Not joking. It was a weird feeling and we couldn’t understand why: was it still cold? No way! Had I lost sensitivity forever? Hope not. We didn’t think too much about it and started preparing ourselves for the last stage of our bike trip...

We woke up like at 6:30. It was early, but we'd slept pretty well. Jet-lag was gone already. Or maybe our body knew what was to come and decided to overcome the jet-lag no matter what. After showering, dressing up like if we were cyclists and packing all the stuff, we went for breakfast. Porridge, quite a few buns, some noodles, nuts, coffee and soya milk. A good one...

It was really early in the morning when Yu woke up. Still some jet-lag and some sort of excitement, I guess. I (Irene) was still sleepy, but as I was awake and Yu had gone for a walk, after initial scepticism I decided to join him...

We got to Taitung like at like 10:30 in the morning - couldn't recall exactly - and went directly to the Giant rental bike store just across the street. The two bikes we had rented were already prepared for us. The two guys at the shop were very friendly. They offered …

A bit before last summer, not having any summer plans yet, we came across a video called something like "Taiwan KOM, the world's hardest climb". After seeing it I said "we should do it sometime". And the response I got was "what if we do it this summer?". We checked …