ride4Haiti

Its been a busy weekend what with helping at the BBQ in our Community Garden, helping with All Saints Summer Fair, meeting up with Craig and Rachel to sort out final arrangements for the RNLI cycle ride and attending a 60th Birthday celebration and an engagement party. Thus, I am only just getting round to writing up my blog about last Friday's ride4haiti which was from Prospect Park, Reading to  the Muslim Hands Charity's office in the Whitechapel Rd, East London.

I arrived at 9am on Friday and was greeted by Mark, from the Cyclist Touring Club, and members of a local Women's Institute who were wanting to encourage more Muslim women to join their organisation. The ride4haiti was organised by Muslim Hands which was established in 1993 and is an international NGO working in over forty countries worldwide to help those affected by natural disasters, conflict and poverty.

I cycled with Javed who is cycling from Lands end to John O'Groats to raise money for Haiti children, Calib and Irfam. We made our way to Windsor Castle and had cake and coffee, then past Heathrow Airport with planes coming in just above our heads to land, then across the Thames at Kew Bridge to Richmond, across to Chiswick, then stopping outside Harrods before cycling through Hyde Park and down to the Embankment to go along the side of the River Thames to East London. We then cycled back to Paddington Station passing St Paul's, and the High Courts of Justice. On to the train and home. It was a great day out for me.

Javed cycled to Milton Keynes on Saturday and I hope all goes well with the rest of his jouney