Eye - 15 April 2011
From Vienna to Windsor
A two wheel trend?
Eye has heard of two Friends taking to the roads of Europe this spring to travel to various Meetings on the continent by motorcycle. Kimmett Edgar, who works for the Prison Reform Trust, has begun a five-day trip to Vienna for the UN Crime Commission, while Roger Sturge is donning his leathers and setting out for Switzerland to attend three different FWCC events, including the international Planning Committee for Friends World Conference.
In an email to Eye, Roger detailed a route that will take him up though Normandy to the Loire then through Burgundy, Besancon and Jura to Herzberg. On the way back he hopes to vary his journey to connect with Quakers in Freiburg and Normandy and to visit the grave of his father’s cousin who was killed on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.
Roger’s history of scooting about the place includes travelling to Yearly Meeting Gathering in York in 2009. He told Eye that although he has been riding motorcycles for most of his adult life he ‘has not made an extended tour before’ and is ‘looking forward to the adventure and independence of travelling on two wheels.’
His family apparently think he’s mad to do this alone at seventy-two years young but he firmly believes in living adventurously. Eye wishes both bikers all the best on their adventures.
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