The Homeward Spin

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We’ve set ourselves a challenge -possibly a rather silly challenge – in an attempt to raise money for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity (formerly Yorhill Childrens Charity)..

Our plan is to fly out to Vietnam, and attempt to cycle back home to Glasgow, entirely on our own pedal powered steam. With a 5 month deadline, the pressure will be on and no doubt there will be a daily dose of blood, sweat, tears and self-loathing. However, with the incentive of raising money for charity we hope that this will provide more than adequate motivation to keep the legs spinning… and spinning, and spinning, and spinning..

 

Follow our journey via our blog entries and Instagram account.

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(see our latest photos at the bottom of this page)

What

Tallying up the rough distance of this trip according to google maps = 16,068km. Just a wee jaunt really. Of course, this rather specific figure will inevitably be inaccurate: the google maps ‘cycling’ option only works in a grand total of 14 countries around the world – few of which we will encounter on this… Continue reading What

Why

We are hoping to raise money for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity (formerly Yorkhill Children’s Charity). The Royal Hospital for Sick Children Glasgow opened its doors on 20th December 1882. At this point there was one surgical ward and two medical wards with a total capacity of 58 beds, with an isolated infectious diseases ward in… Continue reading Why

Who

Who are we? Why are we here? What even is life? Don’t worry, we won’t subject you to amateur philosophy- deciding what to have for dinner is more or less the extent of our existentialism. So where to start? Well, I suppose names would be useful- Matt and Iona. So there you go! Exciting stuff.… Continue reading Who