After an eventful trip to the airport, we arrived at our hotel at 2am. Up at 6am to put together bikes, and on to our first hospice, Hospicjum Sw Kamila, for an amazing breakfast with the volunteers and staff of the domestic hospice. A tour of the building work for the new residential hospice, before a fantastic send off from the local shopping mall - a troupe of dancers, a brass band, TV and radio, and one or two hundred people who joined us for the first part of the day. We all did our climb to a pass above the ski resort (no one walked) and a great ride down -didn't pedal once for 5km. Then a motorbike and a rally car escort into Cieszyn, where we had dinner with the volunteers from the local hospice. We met the family of the lady who was the first to use the equipment donated by the Foundation, who said that this was the thing that made it possible for them to care for her at home and make sure she was comfortable. Very moving and humbling indeed.
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