Back to Romania

So here we are again.....'blogging the blog' and preparing to fly out to Romania for an 8 day trip.

We fly on Friday May 27th from Manchester to Amsterdam and then on to Bucharest. We shall have a four hour wait in Amsterdam and hope to arrive in Bucharest at midnight. Then we have a 3 hour drive to Sacele and our accomodation, so it will be a long day.

Sadly my Dad and Steve will not be with me this year, but I will be in good company. Our team is Phil Calcutt, Colin Skelton, Marie Tierney and her two children Emily and Patrick, and last but  not at all least, my wonderful wife Jane.


We hope to make best use of our skills and abilities whilst in Romania working with the Roma people. If you need reminding of the work then click on this website for the background to FAST and the amazing way they are making a difference to peoples lives.     http://www.fastcharity.ro/

THANKS TO ALL those who helped with fundraising during the last few weeks in many different ways. We have gathered together just £2500 from Altrincham, including Marie's Royal Wedding Afternoon Tea, a sponsored Walk, Church Quiz Nights, and Steve's Calendars, Saturday Cafe and many other efforts, all really appreciated.

We shall also be able to donate to FAST another £2500 which was given in memory of my Mum who died unexpectantly at the end of April. (A wonderful tribute to a very special person and I know that these donations will make a difference.)

You might want to scroll through this blog to see the kind of work we got up to last year!!