Two announcements
Monday, October 23rd, 2006Firstly, I’m now only about 300km from the coast of the north sea, and my expected arrival date in LONDON is below. Exciting! (certainly for me)! So read on if you want to know about that.
But, AT LAST here’s the announcement of the winner of the Virgin Atlantic competition to win a pair of air tickets hong kong to sydney.
To win the tickets, you had to answer correclty the question, "through how many countries did my original route pass?"
The answer - including hong kong as one, as indicated - was 16:
Hong kong, china, kyrgyzstan, uzbekistan, turkemnistan, azerbaijan, georgia, turkey, bulgaria, romania, hungary, austria, czech republic, germany, holland, england.
A lot of people sent in answers but a lot were wrong, mainly because people put "the caucasus" as a country, which it’s not.
Anyway, Angelina Wong, Head of Marketing at Virgin Atlantic in hong kong picked out IRIS CHIM from those who got the answer right. So Iris you are the winner of the tickets! Congratulations!
Iris is a school teacher in Hong Kong’s New Territories, who as you’ll see from comments on this blog, is one of the people who’s followed my route super attentively all the way along. Hope you enjoy your trip! Thankyou to everyone who entered, and thankyou very much to Virgin Atlantic for their involvement.
And about LONDON - I hope to arrive in Reuters Square, Canary Wharf, on Monday 30th afternoon. Can hardly believe I’ve really nearly made it, but I’m aiming to cross the North Sea from Hook of Holland on saturday evening then ride from Harwich to London.
As you’ve probably noticed, thanks to the forebearance of my manager and colleagues, I’ve been able to spend longer on the road than originally planned. This has meant I’ve been able to attempt to finish this journey properly, rather than cut off short or come thru europe by train etc. I appreciate very much their patience.
More later on arrangements for the finish.
That’s all for now - I’m racing across Germany as fast as I can but I still have some long days to do to make my planned schedule. I am eating my dinner here at a small town near Muenster, with German and Dutch maps all over the table, figuring out this last leg…
