Rose Charities New Zealand

All and every congratulation to Will and Henry Midgley (NZ) and Lee Schab (Vancouver, Canada) for the epic journey to Mongolia in their little 1000cc second-hand  Suzuki car.  12 countries and thousands of kilometers many over the most difficult roads.  The photos below give a pictorial account of the trip.  The team made Rose Charities one of their two sponsored organizations.  The whole Rose network is hugely grateful.  To date almost 1000 pounds have been raised for Rose international projects.  To donate (click)

The start …

Left to right. Barbar Reade (Rose Charities UK), Will Midgley, Lee Schwab, Henry Midgley

The journey…

Difficult moments…

First three weeks through Europe and Turkey to Georgia 

After leaving the UK the participants re-grouped for another party in a castle near Prague and again on a beach in Romania.  Our three then headed off to Suceava in Western Romania in order to go north around the Black Sea only to find they could not get a visa for Moldovia.  Why? !

They then headed back down the Southern Route via a beach in Bulgaria

Burst a tyre on the way (only five spares left) and then headed off to Istanbul where they finally got their visa for Iran.  They have a fridge but would like the Air Con.

After a no doubt steamy long drive they reached the middle of Turkey investigated the fascinating underground city of Derinkuyu which wasdiscovered in 1963.  It could accommodate 10,000 people, had about 20 underground levels, had its own wells and ventilation system as well as an 8km tunnel to another underground city.

And nearby rock churches and interesting geology

They then went to Georgia and visited a city ‘Batumi’ at the furthest end of the Black Sea before heading for Tbilisi- poor roads and they don’t have a map but they are now off to Armenia.

Meanwhile they have gone (slightly) native and bought the male version of harem pants …in gold.