 My bike ready to go ~ 我的車子好了  |
| Ready for a rainy start ~ 開始的時候 |
Rain. It didnt stop. And so much to make me loose some courage at 7 30am, before doing some final packing, and heading off to cks mem. hall by 9am. The photos for the press took a while, but well worth it I think.. to raise as much as awareness for the Garden of Hope as possible. Laoban and I were off to breakfast, and what a great breakfast\brunch it was. Soups and seafoods, a great start to the rainy day. The boss there gave me the amount we spent on breakfast back in donations. So kind! The media followed us, and met us there, but more donated as a result! Out of there and late start to Hsinchu. Two hours later we, all start to Hsinchu. Two hours later we, all soaked and wet through and through, stopped and the famous [every 200mt] 7 11 for a chocolate/coffee hit. A little boy in his neat saturday school attire, smiling at our efforts. We took some photos and were off.Another couple of hours arrived at RuKou. Old town, nice rice triangles in bamboo and many cute small fruits with ginger on top. Ate lots. Only 20km left. Still raining.. still soaked! JIA YO! Down hills were amazing by now.. no pain but having to move around to help massage the most used body parts. We arrived at 5pm, at the beatiful Hsinchu train station. A trip to the colourful famous temple, and later eating eating eating, feeling cold Ok!!!Bar for some darts and warm water with lemon. Bring on Mioli! Tomorrow morning 9 am, from the train station!
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| Brunch at the restaurant ~ 我跟老班要小吃 |
Little friend at 7 11 as it rained heavy ~ 小朋友在7
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| Arrived in Hsinzhu ~ 到了新竹 |
GO! Go!Go!加油！加油！加油！
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澳青年騎單車 幫勵馨募款
【聯合報╱記者李晏如／台北報導】
「我騎一公里，你捐一塊錢」，來自澳洲墨爾本的柏安佐（Andrew Bonello），因在台旅遊打工期間深受台灣美景人情感動，決心幫助勵馨基金會募款，以單車環台方式為偏遠地區居民籌備安置家園經費。
從小就喜歡騎單車的柏安佐，旅遊及志工經驗豐富。這趟來台，已住在台北九個多月。在簽證即將到期之前，他希望能將這塊土地走一遭，親眼看看台灣各個角落的面貌。得知勵馨基金會正為偏遠地區未婚少女中途之家的設置籌募經費，讓他有了「單車環台募款」主意。
「台灣既傳統又多元，新舊並置，人們熱情而友善，食物好吃、風景美麗，我非常喜歡這裡。」柏安佐說，「既然決定環台，我希望能為了一個目的而旅行。為需要幫助的人盡一份力，是自我啟發和實現的好方法。」
柏安佐的環台之旅將由今日早上九點，於台北中正紀念堂出發。計劃路線行經新竹、彰化、嘉南、高雄、花東等地，最後再回到台北，共計兩週完成一千四百公里的行程。至於要睡在哪裡？怎麼認識朋友？「我不會事先計劃，讓事情自己發生比較好玩。」
勵馨基金會執行長紀惠容表示，柏安佐的行動意義不在於募得多少款項，而在於他的熱情和體力腦力的貢獻，令人感動。
柏安佐公開部落格，希望與想了解他行程的人分享旅行點滴。「不管你是否捐款，捐多少，就算只是陪我同行一段路，我都很感謝。」
柏安佐部落格：http://mycycleforacause.blogspot.com/
【2011/02/19 聯合報】@ http://udn.com/
& See http://video.udn.com/video/Item/ItemPage.do?sno=344-233-2B4-233-2B3-2F3d3-2F3-2F3c4-233-2F343-2B3b
http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/6162247.shtml
Dear Andrew!
ReplyDeleteJust do what you want~ gogogo!!!!!!
I will pray for you, take care and don't be too tired ;)
Erin
What you've done for the island is impressive. Waht you've done for yourself is simply great.
ReplyDeleteTake care of yourself.
God bless you.
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下雨。下不停。下了這麼多，讓我在七點半的時候頓失一些勇氣。我做了最後的打包工作，9點時前往中正紀念堂。為了媒體的拍照花了一點時間，但是值得的，我想…可以儘可能增加對勵馨基金會的關注。Laoban和我去吃了早餐，這頓早餐/早午餐真是太棒了。有湯，有海鮮，在下雨天裡是個絕佳的開始。老板把我們花的早餐錢捐回來給我們。真好！媒體跟著我們，和我們在那裡見面，結果捐了更多錢。
離開那裡，前往新竹的時間晚了兩個小時。我們騎到從頭到尾全身溼透，停在大家都知道的7-11[每200公尺一間]去吃個巧克力/咖啡。有個小男孩穿著整齊的學校周六制服，對我們的努力報以微笑。我們拍了幾張合照才離開。
幾個小時候我們到了湖口(RuKou?)。老城鎮，用竹葉包的漂亮御飯糰，還有很多可愛的小水果配上薑絲放在上頭。吃了超多。只剩下20公里。仍然溼透！加油！現在而言，下坡是很棒…不會痛，但需要動一動，按摩一下最常使用的身體部位。我們在下午五點抵達美麗的新竹火車站。我們去看了多彩多姿的有名廟宇，接著吃、吃、吃，覺得冷。OK！去酒吧，玩點飛鏢，喝溫水加檸檬。苗栗我來了！明早9點，從火車站出發！