We did it! Exactly 200 miles - and I didn't change gear once (48-17 was the magic combination, in case you're a fixie-freak like me).
On the night we arrived in Ypres, MAG told us we'd raised £64,000. That's enough to clear 44,666 square metres of land of landmines and unexploded bombs. We did well and you can still donate to help push up the total.
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In 2003, the Iranian photojournalist Kaveh Golestan was killed by stepping on a landmine while he was working as a cameraman with the BBC in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq, just as the war was starting. The the sickening waste of Kaveh’s life still haunts me in a way I cannot explain.
www.iranheritage.org/kaveh-golestan/
Also, my great-uncle, Sandy MacLellan, who was enlisted into the British Army during World War One, was killed one month before the end of the war. He was 20 - the age my daughter Seonaid is now. He is buried here
http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_photos.aspx?cemetery=2000075&mode=1
I made this journey through these battlefields and cemeteries in their memory. Peace.
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