21 Bridge Challenge
On Saturday 14th July we teamed up with Team “The Golden Oeuf, The World is not an Oeuf” (catchy name I know!) to complete the 21 Bridge Challenge - “a mini charity parade” over each of the 21 bridges in the London A-Z, starting a Walton and finishing some 31/2 hours later at Tower Bridge.
The lads from “Golden Oeuf” had organised a radio interview that morning to raise awareness. This clearly had great effect as we had been at Walton for all of 5 minutes before a lady approached us and asked “are you the people going to mongolia? are you going to drive over 102 bridges today?” we all nod. Pause. Kim sheepishly asks if there are really 102 bridges in London.
The day gave us an opportunity to publicise our team, the event and was also good news our sponsors - Acergy and Paddlepoint - whos logos are now decorating our car. Bojan and Robin had set up a charity text number - 88999 - this number is now stuck on the side of our car. Please text the word “Support” to this number and 80p will be donated to our charities. (Texts cost £1.50) the number remains active for the next week. We are hoping that lots of people texted as they saw the cars driving through London…