Europe Coast2Coast covers 10 countries from the Atlantic in
the West to The Black Sea in the East, and is approximately 3,000 miles
(5,000km) long.
Eurovelo 6 is a route we’ve both known about for years, but
to be honest Paul has pushed the issue, but a little goes a long way with Doug,
and as such, Doug heads off from home in Bournemouth England on 28 August to
rendezvous with Paul in St. Nazaire, France on 31 August for our big ride east
towards Romania and a swim in The Black Sea!
We are fully intending to Cyclo-Camp the entire route, and
we are expecting it will take approximately 2 months to complete.
Needless to say, although we are attempting this crazy ride
for adventure seeking fun, the serious side is to harness the generosity of our
very many friends from our 130 yrs of combined life to do some good. Paul and I
both have a great interest in supporting the Motor Neuron Disease (ALS in Canada&USA)
Research charitable efforts. This debilitating disease is taking, or has
taken friends from all of us, including numerous sports personalities, all
recently made more public in The UK through the gargantuan efforts of the rugby
community. This disease knows no bounds and blights the life of not just the
victim, be also their families and friends. There simply is not enough support
for this disease.
We are both true believers in ‘Charity beginning at home’, so
we have set up 3 different websites for different countries of our family and most friends so your generous contributions may go to help people like those
mentioned above in your part of the world. Please can you help support our
crazy adventurous challenge by helping us in any way you can!
United Kingdom Donors
www.justgiving.com/page/doug-ramsay-and-paul-bergson-ride-ev6-2023-mnd-europe-c2c
Canadian Donors
http://support.alsevents.ca/ramsay-bergson-ride-ev6-2023-als-europe-c2c
United States Donors
www.justgiving.com/page/doug-ramsay-and-paul-bergson-ride-ev6-2023-als-europe-c2c
Special mention goes to our dear wives Maria and Deborah for
their ongoing tolerance….. perhaps we should really be acting our age, but
hell, that would be boring!!
If you wish to follow our exploits there will be daily posts
on Strava via your smart phone app…. Look for Doug Ramsay, or Paul Bergson!
Or via our blog,
https://eurovelo6ramsaybergson2023.blogspot.com/
And/or via Facebook on a slightly less frequent basis, but with
no less content but for technical ride details.
Thanks very much in anticipation!
Doug & Paul
Subscribed to Strava and the RSS feed here for the blog. Looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteWe wished we had that much time to spare for such adventures, we're working on it :)
JB and Céline (from the tandem)
I will alert Jamie Heywood, from Patients Like Me...founded when his brother got ALS....we are working together now...so great you are doing this and I am excited about this vicarious vacation that will only take 5 min a day, so it totally fits with the start of the academic year :)
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