General Fundraising • Leo Koch completed the Coast to Coast Irish Style and raised £670. • Rabbi Shlomo Levin completed the RideLondonSurrey and has sent a further donation from Professor David and Dr Jeanne Kutz, making a total raised of £11,128. • Leicester Grammar Junior School sent in a fundraising donation of £163.77. • The London Hardwood Club held their annual lunch in January and sent in a donation of £625.
Thank You Ulm - Jun 10, 2013 9:50 pm
Today we are finally leaving Ulm after unexpectedly staying here for a week. We didn’t expect to be stranded here due to the flooding but we could not have asked for a better place to be than Ulm. Everyone here has been so welcoming and generous.
Jockenstein - Jun 12, 2013 9:28 am
We are off! Yesterday we set off from Passau and made it to the Jockenstein lock. Straight out of a James Bond set, the last German lock came complete with henchmen in uniforms riding trollies. Today we crossed the border into Austria passing some amazing scenery.
Good start - Jun 13, 2013 8:29 am
We got off to a good start yesterday, clearing four locks and 133km, well above our 100km a day target. The views as we are rowing are incredible. Lots of little picture perfect Austrian villages squeezed onto the mountainside. Today the target is to get to Vienna. It means another monster day of 130km plus so fingers crossed the lock keepers continue to be kind to us.
On the run… - Jun 17, 2013 7:55 pm
• Longdean School, Hertfordshire, have four houses who each raised money for CRY. CRY Representative Katy Turberville collected the cheque for £2,021.68 on 19th of July 2013. • Eammon Lundy completed a tandem skydive and raised £332. • Valerie Malcolm sent in a sponsorship donation of £100 in respect of Mark Hughes and the Row the Danube Challenge.
Jon Cowie and Mark Hughes, Team H2Row, decided to take on the challenge of rowing the river Danube for CRY and another charity. They were the first rowers ever to attempt the 3,200km journey, which took four weeks to complete and saw them pass through ten countries between the Black Forest and the Black Sea with lots of adventures and problems to overcome.
Extracts from their blog are shown below, and the full version can be found at http://www.c-r-y.org. uk/Row_The_Danube.htm
“Update - Jun 04, 2013 12:48 pm
The boat has safely arrived thanks to Gary from Aquila Logistics so we are good to go… except for the record flooding – the worst in 500 years. We learnt a new German word; Katastrophonalarumn.
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It was a bit of a slow start today when we thought me might get stopped and/or arrested as the Hungarians had shut the Danube to all but essential traffic. It did allow is to refuel on water and some food though and we set off when part of the river re-opened. The river is obviously high and there are signs all around that there has been a lot of damage. Belgrade: Red Star Rowing Club Jun 22, 2013 3:07 pm
Issue 61 | May to August 2013