Tohoku C2C Ride Price Reduced!

We’re delighted to report that our negotiating skills are far better than we realized, and as a result we have managed to reduce the cost of the upcoming Tohoku Coast to Coast Challenge. We’re passing the savings on accommodation and other costs onto all participants.

The cost of the ride is now just 69,000 yen [...]

Can Do Spirit

On this trip to Tohoku, we have met several people who are inspirational, not by power of personality or remarkable skills – in fact they are in many ways quite ordinary – but by simply being people who take action. There is a problem, they see a way forward, and they do it.

I wrote [...]

Hospitality

I don’t know if there’s a hierarchy of hospitality in Japan but, for me, being invited to use someone’s bath is pretty high up there. Tonight, myself and Tony are enjoying the warmth and hospitality offered to us by Ando-san and his family here in the small fishing community of Kyubunhama on the western [...]

Tohoku Bound

Today Mark and I (Tony) set off for a few days in Tohoku to meet with local NPO and contacts. We’re hoping to finalize the details for the Tohoku Cycling Festival and bring in a few other interested NPO parties. In addition, we just got word that the first shipment of donated bikes by Cannondale [...]