My House To Your House - A charitable endeavour

After hi-jacking the touring equipment thread http://www.lfgss.com/thread31811-39.html I thought it would be a better idea if I started a new thread.

This thread is in no way a method to solicite donations, our Just Giving page is already closed sadly. What it is however, is a request for participants, for ideas and for charitable causes for MH2YH 2014.

By way of a quick intro let me re-hash what 9 mates and I did in early July:

Starting at one friends house (a houseboat under the Albert Bridge) we rode from London to Dover. We then relay swam across the English Channel. Then we got back on the bikes and rode to Rotterdam (via the Flushing estuary which we rowed across) and finally we ran the last 70km from Rotterdam to Amsterdam where we finished at another friends house - hence My House to Your House (MH2YH).

In all we raised around 75k for Parkinson's UK, it was a staggering amount, I was blown away. Mainly it was down to a couple of the WAGs driving a relentless PR machine that got us some decent coverage. You can see the website and videos here:

http://mh2yh.com/
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K9aoCDmBsOc

There are four 2min videos - Ride, Swim, Row and Run. Worth a peek!

We are planning on getting the MH2YH theme out to anybody that's interested, we want to make it the type of event that anyone can get involved with, be it your kids riding from one of their friends house to another friend in the next town or be it something on a much grander scale. It just has to be by man power alone.

My personal favourite is for MH2YH to go around the world over the course of a few years, alwadys starting off from where the last adventure finished, eventually winding its way back to that house boat on the Albert Bridge.

If anyone is interested to get involved, if anyone has any ideas, if anyone wants to participate on a more operational level - Please. Let. Me. know.

I want to make this BIG!

Any charity is the perfect charity, any event is the perfect event and every idea could be that perfect adventure so please don't hold back. We already have the PR machine so if you have an idea bring it to the table and let's get things going!

It's a bit sadistic,
ever thought of doing the London Amsterdam thing again in winter,
Xmas maybe?

This sounds like an amazing idea. I hope it grows into a thing.

Happily do London - Amstedam at Xmas with you ;) but you won't catch me swimming in anything but a bath from now on so we can skip the channel bit... Maybe run through the tunnel.

Great idea. Having just done LEJOG it would be good to do another event even if it's just helping people plan their own.

I also drove through India in a tuk-tuk a few years ago so was not human powered but traveling through a place at a more human speed is a brilliant experience.

Rather than swim any water legs perhaps paddle boarding could be a good alternative.

Or pedalos!!!

You could do your house to my house in N.Ireland (technically my parents place / where I used to live). Cycle to Scotlands West Coast and then get on an out-rigger canoe and paddle across to Belfast and then cycle (or run) up to North Antrim.

You could do your house to my house in N.Ireland (technically my parents place / where I used to live). Cycle to Scotlands West Coast and then get on an out-rigger canoe and paddle across to Belfast and then cycle (or run) up to North Antrim.

Ooo! I like. People have Sejm that route. Uber brutal. I like canoe better. This one is def noted.

Pedalo has potential for an Atlantic trip.....

If you are coming up North my house in Edinburgh will welcome you lot with open arms, food, drink and board while you recuperate and make ready for the next part of your adventure.

How far up the Thames can you canoe? The in-laws live in Cornwall - you could do a canoe / cycle / run or some other combo from your house boat. Not quite as extreme but a good training excercise.