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<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 140%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thank you for visiting this donation page f</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">or my Coast to Coast walk to help raise funds for Ratnasambhava Kadampa Buddhist Centre, Leeds – a charity close to my heart. </span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 140%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ratnasambhava Kadampa Buddhist Centre is a place dedicated to helping everyone, without exception to find inner peace through meditation and training in positive thinking.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 140%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 140%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I will be walking between 192 and 220 miles between 23 March and 1 April this year. </span><span style="color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Coast to Coast Walk is a 192-mile (according to a recent re-measuring the real distance is almost 220 miles, although it is difficult to find the source of this alleged re-measuring) unofficial and mostly un-signposted long distance footpath in Northern England. </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 140%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 140%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It was devised by Alfred Wainwright and passes through three contrasting national parks: the Lake District National Park, the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park.</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 140%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Wainwright recommends that walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St Bees and, at the end of the walk, dip their naked feet in the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay. You are also supposed to carry a pebble from the west to the east coast!</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 140%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 140%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thank you so much for sponsoring me and helping </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 140%; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ratnasambhava Kadampa Buddhist Centre, Leeds</span></p>
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