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!

28th July

Fairly uneventful ride to Kiev about 102 miles in distance. We found Kiev itself huge and it took us a long time to negotiate our way across the city. We had to carry the tandem down under passes and over pedestrian bridges as the drivers are a little pushy in the city and they seem to park anyway. Still we are now on the far side of Kiev which will make our exit very easy in the morning for the last day of the ride! Can't believe it! We are staying at a really whacky hotel in Kiev I think it is worth a look on the internet it is called the Perlina Dnipra Hotel. However no bears in the car park!

A storm brewing in Kiev.

Kiev.

To remind people to drive carefully!