M&M Eastern Adventures

I can understand why so many people don’t have cars in Taiwan. Everything is just so easily accessible with the use of public transport. But lately we’ve been considering buying a car. We decided that we should really make use of the opportunity of living in another country and not to just get stuck back into the routine of daily life. And with Taiwan being small enough that you’d basically be able to go anywhere within a day, we really want to experience everything it has to offer. So the quest to find a cheap, reliable car started. The most important requirements of the car had to be reliability and enough space to load our bikes and surfboards so that we could take them with us on any trip. After a lot of driving around and checking the websites for something that would meet our needs, we finally saw something we thought would be perfect. A Toyota Zace, and according to everyone in Taiwan, it was the car to go for. The only thing was that it was all the way on the other side o...

I've always loved sport, watching, supporting and competing. But the one thing I've never been good at is putting in the training, especially when i comes to running. I've done my fare share of races, anything from the 5km fun run to the occasional ultra marathon. But it's always been a last minute decision. Take my first marathon as an example... Before then I didn't do anything over 21km, but as things turned out a local radio station wanted people to run in the Soweto Marathon on their behalf. So i though why not and gave up my name. Leaving me with two weeks to the big day. Let's just say it was one of the most memorable and most painful experiences of my life. I went past 30km in just under 3 hours and I thought to myself a sub 4 hour marathon was on the cards. How I would have loved that. At 32km something happened - all systems shutdown. Let's just say the last 10km took me about the same time to complete as the first 20. I finally finished in j...