The Eleventh tree has sat root now, between a river and a highway, it was a few kms late (50) we couldn’t find somewhere nice to plant it.
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May you grow strong and healthy.
Planting our way to Croatia
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Follow us on twitter!We are Jean-Michel Massey from Devon, England and Mike Pierce from Sydney, Australia. This August we will be cycling from Berlin to Croatia, crossing through 6 countries and over the alps.
The trip will surely be a personal challenge for both of us — both physically and mentally, so we're asking our friends to help us out.
Annie Peacock was the mother of three incredible young men (James, Tim and Jonny Rowden) who sadly lost her battle with cancer just a few short weeks ago. In memoriam to her, we plan to raise money for the Penny Brohn Cancer Centre who provided care and support for her and her boys throughout her illness.
The route will start in Berlin, Germany on the 4th of August. We'll head south to Prague, then across to Munich, we'll then head over the alps — taking the highest possible road — and toward the northern coast of Italy, heading south east toward to Croatia, ending up in Petrcane, Croatia about a month after starting.
Sourcing local saplings on our route, our aim to is to plant a tree every 100km of the trip. We'll take pictures and GPS locations of each sapling so we can follow the progress of their growth in years to come. In fact, we'll be documenting the entire journey right here on this blog, uploading photos, videos and stories as we go.
So we ask of you just a couple of things. Visit the site, leave comments and tips as we travel. We'll be relying on kind words and encouragement from you to keep us going. More importantly, if you can spare even a little bit, we'd love for you to make a donation here to the Penny Brohn Cancer Centre to help us reach our target.
Follow Our Progress
The purple line is our projected route, however it's quite likely we'll deviate from this quite often. The marker is our last noted location — if you're lucky you may even catch us moving if you refresh the page a couple of minutes apart during the day.
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We’re in a charming little villach called Village. No, wait, a charming little village called Villach. Scrap all that it’s actually a city. Whatever, it’s nice.
And suddenly, the other side of the alps, BLUE SKY!!! we’ve descended back to 1000m alt. but fear we have another long climb before clearing the alps.
Still the descent was pretty awesome. 70kmph???
Really seriously tough climb, near vertical I’m sure. We’re up to 1300m altitude, air is thinning, it getting colder, but we still shed most of our clothes.
To mark 1000km we’ve planted the tenth Ginko, he’s at 993m elevation. N47’19.529 E013’30.466
Into Austria, Into Salzburg and plant a tree- number nine!!. He’s hidden a little but one day hope he will be the first thing everyone sees as they enter Austria!!
And here is not such a wonderful photo o the wonderful view.
