Markyreid's VirtualTourist Home Page

I will update my Vietnam page shortly. We visited Vietnam in April of 2007. A great time had.

On Wednesday the 19th April 2006, we set out on our 958km journey to Adelaide from Torquay in Victoria in aid of raising money for the Women's and Children's Hosptial. We have just held a very successful Gala evening that raised in excess of $40,000 for our charity. Our initial plan was to raise $20,000 for the Women and Children's Hospital in Adelaide. They did a fantastic job looking after Sam and his family and we hope we can make it a little easier on any other families that experience similar challenges. The fund is also going to help train South African nurses in Adelaide who can then go back to their home and train hundreds of field workers who work with the hundreds of children impacted on by Aids.

Obviously we are always looking for donations/sponsors so if you are interested in donating to the Hospital please contact me through the email at virtual tourist and i will forward the Hospital account details. Our journey will take us from just out of Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road, through the south east of South Australia into the beautiful city of Adelaide. I am sure there will be plenty of photos and stories to share.

For people interested in the bike ride and more about the inspirational life of Sam Roberts here is a webpage dedicated to him and our journey. cycle4sam.com

A brief run down on our 6 week European adventure. We flew into Berlin and picked up the motorhome before heading to Prague, Wroclaw, Krakow, Slovakia, Budapest, Vienna, Southern Germany and then northwards towards Frankfurt. Here we exchanged our 4 berther motorhome for a 6 berth one. We then headed down to Switzerland, southern France, Cinque Terra, Rome, Pompei, Capri Isle before heading back to Jung Frau in Switzerland and then back to Frankfurt. Our final destination was Barcelona, which we flew to, before flying back to Reading in England.