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Charity bike ride from Paris to Colchester · 11 July 2011

We are a Colchester based charity which provides specialist palliative and end of life care to local people facing incurable illness in north east Essex, supporting them, their families, friends and carers.

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Updated on Jul 16th 2011 at 4:23 PM from the JustGiving API

That's it 355 miles all done, and to a great reception at Castle Park...well done to all my co-cyclists and of course Thankyou to all for the sponsorship and comments along the way xxxx next year.....well it's gonna be a good one!

Updated on Jul 14th 2011 at 6:15 PM from the JustGiving API

55 miles today and a good ride for all of us as a team, brilliant! However English bus drivers in London are shit, fact! :-( time for a beer or a dozen in Greenwich......Ooooshh

Updated on Jul 12th 2011 at 7:05 PM from the JustGiving API

54 miles today & rain and wind but all done, day two done 144 miles down, 166 to go!

Updated on Jul 10th 2011 at 8:35 PM from the JustGiving API

We've arrived in France at out hotel and we drove through the 90 mile route back to Amiens, which was very very hilly ! Fun :-) thanks again for your sponsorship

Updated on Jul 8th 2011 at 4:31 PM from the JustGiving API

36 hours to go......then France here we come, I'm now up to £1'150 including all my written donations! Wow massive thanks from me to you all, but let's keep it coming please.....for a worthy cause, thanks Darren :-)

Updated on Jun 30th 2011 at 4:40 PM from the JustGiving API

Hi, my training is going very well and all is looking good for the ride in 10 days now......! With all the just giving donations and hand written one's, I'm up to £900 in total, so thank you all very much......let's get it over the £1'000 amount pretty please :-)

<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p>Fifteen of us are cycling from <a title="Paris to Colchester Cycle - charity page" href="http://www.paristocolchester.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2a42c6;">Paris back to Colchester</span></a> in order to raise money and awareness for St Helena Hospice, a charity that provides free service for people in Essex who have been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness.</p> <p>Kind sponsors have agreed to provide us with a van and fuel to transport us to the French capital, where we will begin our 500km cycle on Monday 11th July and aim to be in Colchester by Saturday 16th July '2011'<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></p> <p>As most of you know I've been training for a while now, and this is going to be a difficult task for me, especially as we are doing 150 miles in the 1st 2 days !</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now to a <a title="St Helena Hospice" href="http://www.sthelenahospice.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2a42c6;">local charity</span></a> that is providing an excellent service to those that need it.</p> <p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p>

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