Tina And John's Cycle Ride

My Story

OFF LINE DONATIONS ANN TYLER £50 Thank you Ann for your generous donation. WESLEY CUTLER £50 Thank you very much for your kind and generous donation. looking forward to seeing you at the next Hittisleigh mens Breakfast. PETER SAVAGE £100 Dear Cousin Peter, Thank you for your generous donation. Journey completed A MITCHELL £50 Thank you so much for your donation. Very much appreciated MARY AND MERVYN TRICK £25 Thank you very much for your kind donation. much appreciated. OUR JOURNEY: LANDS END TO JOHN O’GROATS On TUESDAY 30th MAY 2017 John and Tina plus bicycles will take a train, from Exeter Saint David’s to Penzance and set off on our bike ride from Lands End to John O'Groates. Below is the route that we plan to cycle avoiding busy roads where possible and taking traffic free trails such as canals when available. Lands End, Bodmin, Home, Taunton, Bristol, Tewkesbury, Himley (west of Birmingham), Middlewich, Preston, Armside (bottom of Lake District), Cockermouth, Gretna Green, Sanquhar (30 miles NW of Dumfries), Ardrossan (South of Glasgow), Lochgilphead (51 miles south of Oban), Oban, Fort William, Inverness, Lairg, Bettyhill, (on north coast), John o’Groats. A more detailed list of where we are spending our night stops is printed below our story. John's Story Why do I want to raise money for Cancer Research? This last year has been a bad year for friends who are no longer here. Two were healthy male non smokers who were not overweight. Both were three months from diagnosis to death. Both died within a month of each other. Both died of cancer. My next door neighbour of some thirty five years has had to have a double mastectomy. Her daughter had a cancer just after the birth of her first son. My cousin has had a double mastectomy and, as many of you already know, my son had Leukaemia, a cancer of the blood. Two good friends at Seale Hayne both lost their wives to cancer, a customer locally with whom I am friendly lost his wife to cancer recently. It is those left behind who suffer most, especially children who lose their mothers. So many reasons to give money to improve research, diagnosis and treatment. Research has made huge advances in recent years but there is more to do. A penny a mile, we expect to do over 1000 miles, so those who can spare a tenner this is a good cause. I have already had a very kind offer of free transport for our bicycles to get them back from Scotland to Devon by Stan Robinson Transport, an excellent firm if you want pallets moved around the country but for them there is perhaps a reason for their generosity. Stan the founder of the business died from cancer. I aim to have a lot of fun being 'old, fat, and slow'. But I do aim to get there and would much appreciate your donations to Cancer Research. Tina's Story There is little I can add to John’s reasons for our choice of raising funds for Cancer Research. I too am affected by the continuing loss of family and friends afflicted by Cancer. However, we are also blessed to have more people than ever before who are diagnosed with cancer that are still with us. This is because of new and improved treatments that Cancer Research is discovering to cure and prevent this disease. The above is a fantastic reason to raise funds for The Cancer Research UK charity, enabling them to continue their good work. They are unable to do so with out our help. You will see that we are using Cancer Research UK’s own money raising web site and not one of the well known ones. The reason for this is that, unlike some other sites, they take no charges, so every penny of your donation goes direct to the charity immediately you press the button. Please do not forget gift aid. This increases your donation by 25%. Thank you so much for reading this. It is very much appreciated. We are two OAPs, 70 years plus and it would be great if you can support our Jolly Jaunt. Thank you. Our itinerary is as follows: 30th May Tuesday catch our train from Exeter St Davids to Penzance, cycle to Lands End and back to our first night at Rosanio's in Marazion. Tel.01736711998 31st May Berry Lane Cottage, Nanstallion, Bodmin 07411 276971 1st June at home 2nd June at home 3rd. June Royal Ashton Hotel, Station Road ,Taunton. TA1 1PD 01823 272456 4th June with Julian in Bristol. 5th June The Royal Hop Pole, 94 Church Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RS. 01684 274039 6th June Himley County Hotel, School Road, Himley, Dudley. DY3 4LG 01902 275657 7th. June The Narrow Boat, , 22 Lewin Street, Middlewich, CW10 9AS. 01606 838087 8th. June Ashwood Hotel, 11 – 14 Fishergate Hill, Preston. PR1 8JB. 01772 203302 9th June Ye Old Fighting Cocks, The Promenade, Arnside, LA5 0HD 01524 761203 10th June Allerdale Court Hotel, Cockermouth, CA13 9NQ. 01900 823654 11th June Solway Lodge, 97-99 Annan Road, Gretna. DG16 5DN. 01461 338266 12th June Nithdale Hotel, 1 High Street, Sanquhar. DG4 6DJ 01659 50133 13th June Edenmore B&B 47 Parkhouse Street, Ardrossan. KA212 8AN. 01202 382259 14th. June The Horseshoe Inn, Kilmichael Glassary, Lochgilphead. PA318QA 01546 606369 15th June Hawthorn Cottage , Benderloch, Oban. PA37 1QS. 01631 720452. 16th June Forest Lodge Guest House, South Laggan, Spean Bridge, PH34 3EA 17th June Margaret Mackintosh, Newton Croft B&B, Conon Bridge, !V7 8AS 01349 861442 18th June Win Brinklow, Saddlers House , Lairg. IV27 4BJ 01549 402699 19th June Bettyhill Hotel, Bettyhill, KW14 7SP 01641 521202 20th June Hamanvoe Roadside, John o’Groats. KW1 4YR 01955 611776.