Letters - 04 February 2011
From Canterbury to Tucson
Cycle to Yearly Meeting Gathering
Cycle, carbon free, over two days from London to Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG), Canterbury. This is an invitation to start your holiday a day earlier, arrive with friends of all ages and bring your own bike for the campus.
In 1388 Chaucer’s pilgrims walked. In 2011 cycling is commitment to our YMG theme – ‘Growing in the Spirit, changing the way we live to sustain the world we live in’.
Our mixed-age ride will gather on Friday 29 July at 11am at the site of the Tabard Inn, 77 Borough High Street, London SE1. Once out of London, we will follow Sustrans Route One (www.sustrans.org.uk). It uses mainly small country roads and cycle lanes and is well marked. Wearing fluorescent Quakers for Peace vests, we will travel eight to ten miles per hour as a group, approximately forty miles each day, carrying spare inner tubes and water.
We have reserved thirty-eight beds at Medway Youth Hostel, Gillingham on 29 July at a modest cost. However, hospitality and refreshments from Meetings en route will be welcome.
Let me know soon if you plan to come and if you would like one of the reserved beds. Under-18s must have a responsible adult, please.
Laura Conyngham LauraC@eclipse.co.uk
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