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Thanks to all our new supporters

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Thanks Nyree

Hello everyone, we’re a third of the way through our journey and though it about time we posted an update about our antics so far.

After leaving The Green House in Holywood, Northern Ireland at 9.00 am on Wednesday the 15th April we are making good time on our trip and today we are heading towards Caceres on Leg 8 of our journey. So far we have experiences all the joys of long distance motorbike travel from a good soaking in Ireland, communication problems in Wales and sore backsides by the time we reached France.

That said we have met some of the most wonderful, interesting and helpful people imaginable on our trip so far. From the ATS man who has sponsored us for free tyres if required anywhere in Europe to Nyree at AMERICAN EXPRESS who arrange accommodation for us when we lost our way to the campsite, while tired, soaked and aching (by the way the advert on the thanks on the napkin I promised is below Nyree.) everyone has been delightful and we thank them all heartily for their assistance..

Tags: Charity, Friends, Motorbike, Sponsors, Supporters, Thanks, Trip
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Official sponsors we salute you

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Obviously it goes without saying that none of this would be possible without the support of all our sponsors. You will all be able to see from our gallery page that we are giving your brands a good showing when we can and will be returning with even more exclusive pics of your brands being promoted during our journey.

If you want to keep track with what we are doing daily please follow us on Twitter by clicking the link in the twitter window in the top right of the page. We are now officially Twitter addicts and are currently twittering to over 50 followers, sign up and become one too.

We will be blogging later this week about our challenges and providing the photographic evidence requested so we can be sure to guarantee your pledges.

Well better go now… today we are doing a bit of off roading now that our muscles are feeling like they can take it, plenty of pics and comment will be posted on Twitter as the day progresses so sign on and keep up.

Thanks again to you all for your support.

Thanks BTW Shiells

Thanks Hemsec Sips

Thanks Ulster Bank

Tags: Charity, Fields of Life, Help, Motorbike, Official, Sponsors, Thanks, Trip
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Watch Out France, Here We Come!

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Big day today, our last hours in the UK before we ferry to France and better weather we hope. So far so good but we’re both starting to feel some twinges and cramps… maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all! Well too late now!

As you can see from the pics we are using some extremely advanced navigational systems that Alan is overseeing, as for myself… well I think my pic says it all!

Better make a move and get this show on the road but a quick thanks to our marketing consultant Chris Campbell at Definite Vision who has been assisting us with our digital tech issues over the last few days and also Vincent & Jackie at Ceramica, providers of the finest tiles in North Down if not all of Northern Ireland.

Thanks Definite Vision

Thanks Ceramica

Tags: Blogging, camping, Ceramica, Definite, Fields of Life, First Day Of Trip Sky Wrong Way Round, Followers, Fundraiser, Holywood, Motorbike, Motorbikes, Sponsors, Support, Vision
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Watch Out Britain, Here We Are!

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Hello Everybody. We are now back on the bloggosphere, twittersphers and emailsphere (if there is such a thing). Due to some minor technical issues we have been off the radar but we are now all sorted. Our trip has got off to a fairly soggy start with non stop rain during the Holywood to Holyhead leg on Wednesday 15th and the Holyhead to Brecon leg yesterday wasn’t a whole lot better… but our spirits are high and the best thing is the closer we get to Cadiz the better the weather will get - Hopefully!!

Next stop ferry, then mild, clement France for some real bike riding!

So here goes with a plug for the sponsor that sent us on our way from Holywood on leg one - Octagon Design, our design company of choice and designers of this fantastic website. Cheers Damien & Ray and thanks for all the hard work!

Thanks Octagon, Open You're Eyes Stephen

Monkey Says... Monkey Does...

Tags: Cadiz, Charity, Design, Fields of Life, Fundraiser, Holywood, Motorbike, Octagon, Sky Developments, Trip, Wales, Wrong Way Round
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Tech Giving Us Trouble! AARGHH

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Always the way, you lay all your plans, triple check everything and then boom! the tech lets you down. For some reason our twitpics are not posting on twitter and the site so afraid today you’re just going to have to make do with these few shots on the blog. Twitter due back up and running propertly within hours so hopefully we will be back on track for tomorrow.

Gotta go, big afternoon ahead, muscles starting to ache already though, Cadiz seems a long way away right now. Oh.. BTW the ‘Cook & Eat Roadkill’ challenge - Does this count?

Sign Says It All

Roadkill?

Barbeque

Tags: Blogging, Camp, camping, Charity, Followers, Motorbike, Motorbikes, Sky Developments, Trip, Wrong Way Round
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And we’re off…

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

9.00 am, Wednesday 15th April 2009… here we go!

All systems ready, preparations made, supplies packed and goodbyes said. This is the first day of our 4500 round trip for Fields of Life to raise money to build a school in Uganda. Thanks to everyone who has helped us get this far, it’s up to us not to keep our eyes on the road and our heads down.

We’ll be updating you all along the way with comments and pics via our twitter feed available her in the top right of the window or on twitter directly @wrongwayround. If you’re subscribed follow our feed and keep up with our progress.

Of course all our pics taken along the way will be posted on the gallery section of this site daily so keep coming back for updates and our photo diary.

Stephen blasts towards Dun Loaghaire on leg one of the journey

Tags: First Day Of Trip Sky Wrong Way Round
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Some last minute preparation…

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Stephen airs out the tent he’ll be calling home for the next 2-3 weeks. Thanks to our great climate, he only had to wait ten minutes to test for water resistence!

Luckily he won’t be sharing it with Alan!

Stephen testing out his new tent!

Tags: camping, Charity, journey, Motorbike, Round, tents, Trip, Way, Wrong
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Finding out how to Blog

Friday, April 10th, 2009

iPhone Blogging! This is magic and witchcraft for the digital age, thanks Octagon Design & Definite Vision …
Now we can stay in touch with the website through the entire journey!

Tags: Blogging, Definite Vision, Iphone, Octagon, Sky Developments, Twitter, Wordpress
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