Well we completed our journey yesterday with the most wonderful welcome from everyone at the Revival Centre! The children, parents and staff lined the road waving flags, balloons and banners! We even had a police escort into Chernihiv! We were filmed by two national news channels and two local channels, and numerous newspapers! They say everyone has 15 minutes of fame I think that was ours!
We are now having three wonderful days at the Centre this morning the children put on a superb concert for us - and I had an opportunity to look round the Speech and Language Therapy department. I can not put any pictures up as I can not get onto the net with my computer I am using one of the centers computer and it suddenly changes into Ukrainian script.
We are home on Monday so we will put up some pictures of our time here.
2500 kms came up on our bike computer as we arrived at the centre. Thank you to everyone who has supported us and thank you to Garry and Liz for supporting us so well through Germany and Poland, and Alan and Pauline in Ukraine.
It has been quite a remarkable experience and I can recommend it as an excellent way to see Europe!
Huge congrats ! I hope you get some good discussions with the Ukranian SLTs !!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic acheivment. You have done what many thought impossible. You also battled the ride in the most hottest of weathers and tackled Polish and Ukranian roads which were totalling unnerving. The hills in Rivne were very cruel especially as they came towards the end of the days ride. However, we are so proud of what you have done. You have seen for yourself the beauty of the Revival Centre and the excellent work it does for so many children. The dedication of Dr P and his staff. You have been seen on National Television in Ukraine and featured in the press doing something which has never been done before.
ReplyDeleteWe thank and respect you for what you have done and can assure you both that every penny raised will go straight to Dr P for the treatment of children at the Revival Centre. God Bless you both. Love Alan and Pauline.