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Cycling back in England and Bikeabout Ambleside.

Chris Leakey — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:08:00 +0000

Bikeabout London our amazing party that raised £1070.00 for Child’s Dream ended with Liz and I at my Mums in South West London. We were both exhausted Liz having just completed her first full week of work in nearly a year and I still catching up...

Hello and Welcome back!

Chris Leakey — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:35:22 +0000

A big sorry for the sudden drop off in blogging, the end of the cycling suddenly hit me and I was finding it quite difficult to cope. Life seemed fast passed and everybody seemed so busy, I went from having one focus, cycling, to having to think...

Bikeabout London | Sat 11th Feb

Liz Wilton — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:54:04 +0000

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Liz Wilton — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:15:32 +0000

After an amazing day on saturday for Bikeabout London, we spent the journey home to Chris’s mum’s house talking about all the wonderful people who made the effort to join us and support us. The journey back last night was quite long, and...

St Swithun’s Banner Competition

Liz Wilton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:00:10 +0000

I set the students at St Swithun’s School in Winchester a challenge to created drawings to go on the welcome home banner for Bikeabout London on 11th Feb, to welcome Chris home. Having spent all day with them telling them about our trip,...

Some snippets from Chris…

Liz Wilton — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:01:25 +0000

Some of you may have been missing our regular posts, but as Chris has been battling sub zero temperatures and a broken stove whilst trying to cover a lot of distant is short space of time, there isn’t much time left in the day for blogging....

Visiting St Swithun’s School, Winchester

Liz Wilton — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:47:02 +0000

My family moved to Winchester when I was 18 and I only really spent a brief period there attending Winchester School of Art for a year, before going off to University. However my mum and dad have lived there ever since and have a wonderful circle of...

16,000km and 29 months later, British Cyclists return to the UK

Liz Wilton — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:30:33 +0000

Bikeabout London – Join us! Temperatures of 40°C in Malaysia and Australia, 4000m mountain passes in China, teaching English in a remote hill tribe village in Thailand, sand storms in the Gobi desert and a wedding engagement en route, have all...

Poland to Czech Republic

Chris Leakey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Leaving my river camp site I set off towards the Czech Republic. It was a cold and wet day, I had run out of gas for my stove the night before so no water for the thermos. On the bright side it meant I had a good excuse to buy a coffee, sit inside...

Krakow to Auschwitz

Chris Leakey — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:20:00 +0000

This blog contains details and pictures related to Auschwitz, it might not be suitable for some people or children. If you are under 14 please get your parent, guardian or teacher to read this first to make sure they are happy for you to read and...