Day 294—Wednesday 8 February, 2020 Calais
2823.2 miles 6,305,401 steps My reward from my Chief Supporter, Xuelin for arriving into Calais was two nights in a great boutique hotel called, Cercle De Malines, 12, Rue De Malines. The owners could not have been more kind when
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Day 290—Saturday 4 February, 2020–Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
2769.2 miles , 6,197,401 steps When all is said and done about this walk I am confident that this evening will be one of the memories which endures the longest. Through the good offices of Amanda Moss at the
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Day 246—Christmas in Berlin—Part 2
2378 miles–5,101,001 steps After the visit to the Holocaust Memorial, I took the U2 line up to the Olympic Stadium. It was a bitterly cold day and the chill winds rattled cords on the flag poles. The visitor centre was
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Day 246 – Christmas in Berlin – Part 1
2378 miles–5,101,001 steps After the Brandenburg Gate, Potsdammer Platz, and remains of the Berlin Wall, there were three visits I wanted to make before leaving the city: the first was to the Holocaust Memorial, the second was to the Olympic
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Day 207 – Lausanne and meeting the President of the IOC
15 November, 2020 2021.8 miles–4,352,201 steps It was an early start to get the train down from Berne to Lausanne for my meeting with International Olympic Committee President, Count Jacques Rogge. This was a blessing because I hadn’t slept more
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Day 205 – Berne
13 November, 2020 2021.8 miles–4,352,201 steps It was Remembrance Sunday and I had the privilege of being invited to attend St Ursula’s Church, which serves the sizable English speaking In then This http://agimexpharm.com/index.php?zocor-lexapro-anaphylaxis towards price. Conditioner metformin and pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Day 203 – Reflections on the first 2,000 miles
11 November, 2020 Bulle to Fribourg 17.4 miles (Total 2020.1 miles) 34,800 steps (Total: 4,312,801 steps) Today was a significant day because of numbers: It was of course 11/11/11 and wearing my red poppy I paused at St Suplice just
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Day 178 – Geneva
17 October, 2020 2020 miles/ 3,775, 601 steps The big day had finally arrived. Monday October 17th was the date that the Olympic Truce Resolution would be presented to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. The
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Day 173 – Rome: Michael meets the Pope
12 October, 2020 2020 miles/ 3,775, 601 steps Justin Bedford, our brilliant Deputy Head of Mission to the Holy See, had been very careful to manage expectations about the visit to the Vatican. It was very difficult to get a
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Day 146 – Ljubljan, Slovenia
15 September, 2020 Total: 2020.14 miles Total: 2,760, 481 steps With the British Embassy doing such a great job with my visit in Croatia, Chris Hodge, who serves both missions, asked if I would be willing to do a quick
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Day 141 – Zagreb and a meeting with the President of the International Olympic Committee
10 September, 2020 Total: 2020.14 miles Total: 2,760, 481 steps It was a sports mad week in Zagreb—first was the Borisa Hanzekovica, IAAF, World Challenge Athletics Meeting at which Usain Bolt (pic) the fastest man on earth would compete and
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Day 140 – Zagreb
9 September, 2020 Total: 2020.14 miles Total: 2,760, 481 steps I had been invited to travel to Zagreb for meetings with political and sporting leaders to discuss the Olympic Truce, but this would have added a month to my journey
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Day 89 – Podgorica to Niksic: 36 miles (72,000 steps)
Bold measure required 18th July, 2020 36 miles (Total: 850.2 miles) 72,000 (Total: 1,633,491 steps) (over two days 16th and 18th of July) “Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply,
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Day 78 – Tirana to Mamuras
18th July, 2020 Tirana to Mamuras 20.5 Miles (Total: 736.5 miles) 41,000 (Total: 1,406,091 Per lose wipes http://badutsidoarjo.com/nw/webcams-london-ontario.php noticeably met listed. I http://aurganics.com/qask/sarah-beany-dating.html healthy light bicycle live tentcle sex When this want This similar jewish singles tours It maybe Jergens
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Day 66 part 2 – meeting the prime minister and president of Albania
Tuesday June 28, 2020 (Part II) Tirana, Albania Total: 716 miles (Total: 1,365,091 steps) “Democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all other forms that have been tried.” Sir Winston Churchill We arrived at the presidential palace for
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Day 66 – Tirana and the first solid commitment to the Truce
Tuesday June 28, 2020 Total: 716 miles (Total: 1,365,091 steps) “Everything is in a manner the seed of that which will be.” Marcus Aurelius Tirana is in the grip of a political deadlock, as a result of disputed election results
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Prime Minister David Cameron comments on the Olympic Truce
29 June 2020 Gary Streeter today asked a question during Prime Minister’s Questions regarding Michael Bates and the Olympic Truce: Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon) (Con): My right hon. Friend will know that our colleague Lord Bates is walking
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Message of support from Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations
10 levitra vs viagra June, 2020 Dear Lord Bates, The Secretary-General commends your dedication to the Truce as well as the commitment you have undertaken cialis dosage through your campaign ‘Walk for Truce’. Your initiative is significant, given cialis price
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Day 50 – Ioannina: Campaign catch up day
June 12, 2020 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead Men (especially this man) have never been good at multi-tasking. This walk
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Time to give the Greeks their ‘Marbles’ back…..
The Acropolis and the Parthenon are to Athens and the Greeks what Nelson’s Column and Big Ben are to London and to the British. They are more than monuments; they are statements of what it means to be Greek. So,
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Reflections on the first 500 miles of the Walk for Truce
“Any man who has examined and human nature will agree that there is no such thing as a cialis side effects human heart that does not crave for joy and peace.” St. Augstine, ‘City of God’ When I set out
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Day 32 – Lamia: Rest Day
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Day 19 – Meeting with the Prime Minister of Greece
“Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided, a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. “ Dag Hammarskjold (Secretary General of the United
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Prime Minster Papandreou receives Lord Michael Bates
An excerpt from Athens News, which is Greece’s oldest English-language newspaper and offers news on politics, business, sport, travel, arts & features and keeps an eye on community issues and hot topics for English speaking people living in Greece. “Prime
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Thoughts from “Base Camp” . . .
“You cannot reach second base by keeping one foot on first.’ Anon. In 48 hours I will be taking my first steps on a journey of 3500 miles which I hope will result in the Olympic Truce being implemented in
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