Let's Try Some Travel Writing, Shall We?

Nothing to do with either business or writing, except that I'll be trying to do a bit of both while I'm there, but I'm off to the South of France this Friday, 7th September.

One thing I may have mentioned here before is that I'll be doing the Great North Run, on Tyneside, on 30th September. I probably also mentioned that my brother in law John will be cycling the length of the Pyrenees, in the company of three other madmen, in the two weeks from the 9th.

John called up, sounding a bit anxious, a couple of weeks ago, to say that their support driver had had to drop out and could I please help?

One of the things that Suffolk lacks is big hills, and I gather these are more plentiful in the Northeast, so the Great North Run was promising to be quite a shock. A week or so running in the Pyrenees might be enough to put those Geordie hills in their place, though. So, of course, I snapped at the chance to join 'Le Knees', as they're calling themselves, for the first week or so.

I'll be taking my laptop, a camera and my running shoes, along with plenty of work to be getting on with while I wait for Le Knees to drag themselves over yet another Tour de France col.

So, I'll be trying to post the odd blog entry while I'm there, t'Internet connections permitting.

And while I'm here I may as well give you the inevitable sponsorship links. I'm running the Great North Run for MS Society, and my site is www.justgiving.com/royeveritt . John is cycling the Pyrenees for the British Heart Foundation and he's at www.justgiving.com/johncarrel and you'll find Le Knees at http://web.mac.com/jeremy_rushton/iWeb/Le%20Knees%202007/ with links to the other riders' sponsorship pages.

Roy Everitt, Running For Results