Stories
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Marhaba (“Hello”)
• Families who came out their houses and across fields to see us cycling past
• Smiling children at the side of the roads, wanting ‘high fives’
• Women leaning over the balconies, smiling shyly holding babies in their arms
• Older men coming out the mosque to wave and smile at us as we went past ringing our cycle bell.
• Meeting Saudi women in the toilet in Jordan – and they laughed because they had never seen women in shorts before – “aren’t you cold?”. My thought: “aren’t you hot?”.
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I should have learned by now that when my boss Detta Regan comes into the office with a certain look on her face and says ‘...I’ve had an idea’.. it will mean something that is probably impossible, will take over your whole life and ultimately prove amazing.
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Ora McGuire is an 85 year old resident of Walpole, Massachusetts, USA whose spiritual contribution to world peace is to make paper cranes using Japanese origami technique. She gives a peace crane to most everyone she meets and tells them the story of Sadako.
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“ I follow Betsy!” I have known Betsy for many years and she introduced me to travelling and cycling, and together we have cycled in Uruguay, Guatemala, Bulgaria, Puerto Rico and Iceland. I really like the idea that bicycling can make as much as a difference to others as it has to me and I am committed to this. I would also like to make a contribution to others Follow The Women gives me the opportunity to do this.