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28th July 2003
12 o'clock: The First arrived!!!!
Larissa, Anton, Viktor and Konstantin from Yekaterinburg were landed in Düsseldorf. Today they stay by friends in Wuppertal and they will come to the "Hardt" tomorrow.
28th July 2003
Klaus distributes Co-Rider
Klaus Schneider-Ott coordinates the bikers, which will accompany the Global Friends along the Tour. Contact during the tour at the Global-Friendship-Tour-Phone:
+49 172 217 22 99
(Wolfgang Morhenn)
28th July 2003
WDR reports live
The "WDR-Lokalzeit" (the local TV in Wuppertal) reports with live-interviews from the "Hardt" about the Global-Friendship-Tour on Thursday 31st July, 7:30 p.m.
28th July 2003
Online Information
"Radwelt-Online" (www.radwelt-online.de), the Internet magazine of the ADFC reports on their sites "Events" from the Global Friendship Tour.
The official website of the Northrhine-Westfalian tourism association at cologne (www.germany-tourism.de) advertizes the Global Friendship Tour.
Not much info, and only in german:(
28th July 2003
Lenka and Martin had started.
The adventure starts! Our slovakian friends Lenka and Martin had started from Kosice. In 26 hours they will arrive Wuppertal by train. Arrival at Central Station 10:41 a.m. Also the four from Yekaterinburg were "in the air"! In the next hours the participants from Beer Sheva and Matagalpa will check in at their airports. On this evening the friends from Legnica (by bus) and South Tyneside (by ferry and bus) will start. Only the three friends from Schwerin can stay a last night at home. All friends: Have a good journey!
28th July 2003
Official Reciept in Oer-Erkenschwick
On the 2nd August at 9:00 a.m. in front of the town hall in Oer-Erkenschwick will be a receipt by the mayor of the town for the Global Friends.
28th July 2003
Official Delegation From Poland Welcomes Global Friends
The delegation from the polish twin town Legnica, which stays now in Wuppertal for the 10th anniversary of the twin town friendschip, will stay a day longer to welcome the five polish participants of the Global Friendship Tour.
28th July 2003
T(our)-Shirts are present
The T-Shirts with the sign of the Global-Friendship-Tour were supplied in many fashionable colours. Every participant get a shirt to wear it at the numerous official events during the next three weeks.
27th July 2003
North Tyneside Friends accompanies the Tour
The twin town association "Oer-Erkenschwick - North Tyneside" will welcome the Global Friends. On Saturday the North Tyneside Friends will ride along with the caravan on the route to Münster till Lüdinghausen.
26th July 2003
Schwelmer Press reports
The newspaper "Westfalenpost/Schwelm" reports in their issue of today under the Headline "Biking pensioner Edgar Hahn on Tour again" of the Global Friendship Tour and the three participants Heidi and Edgar Hahn and Horst Birka from Schwelm (neighbour town of Wuppertal)
25th July 2003
Function in the Teams / task distribution
All of the 51 Global friens in the five teams (GREEN, BLUE, RED, PINK & YELLOW) get a task in their teams during the tour.
The distribution is shown in the Global-Friendship-Task-Distribution-Plan.
25th July 2003
Delicious, Delicious!
The legendary cult-snack-bar "Zum Guten Happen" (to the good bite) in Liebenwalde directly located at the europpean far-biking-route "Copenhagen-Berlin" AND at the Green Route "Wuppertal-Schwerin-Berlin" invite the Global friends for a snack-stop.
25th July 2003
Tower ascent earlier
On Tuesday, the ascent of the "Bismarck"-tower with a "first look" on the twin town happens earlier for all Global Friends at 5:00 p.m. An hour later, at 6:00 p.m., the official Global-Friendship-Program starts at the ecumenical workshop at the "Hardt".
25th July 2003
Happy Birthday Franz!
Franz Scholz from the municipal AGENDA-Bureau of Wuppertal, one "Motivators" of the Global-Friendship-Tour, celebrate his Birthday today. Now, Franz considers possibly to escort the Global Friends on some parts of the route! For today and in future: Good Luck and Congratulations!
25th July 2003
Bienvenue Raymond!
Raymond Günther has announced his participation at some events at the Global Friendship Meeting in Wuppertal. Raymond Günther is a representative of the Company ABUS from Wetter, which provides the tour with biking-helmets, bike-locks and chains. Welcome!
25th July 2003
Lime-tree is the Friendship-Tree
Günther Wick, district leader from the municipal ressort for environement, green-spaces and forests had bought a young lime-tree. The Friendship-Tree will be planted ceremonial on the 30th July after the BBQ at the Hardt.
24th July 2003
Reciept at Zehdenick
Great honour for the Global Friends: Mayor Witte will welcome the group at 12th August in Zehdenick.
24th July 2003
Romantic!
The lunch break on the 11th August happens on the so called "Love-Island" of the castle Mirow. This indicates the really loveful detailed planning of the Route-Committee (Thanks to Anne, Bettina, Brigitte and Gerhard)
24th July 2003
Rumpenhorst in Heveney
The mayor of Bochum Herman-Joseph Rumpenhorst will welcome the Global-Friends at their very first break (1st August - 12:30) at the reservoir Kemnade / port Heveney at the river Ruhr. On the continuing course of the first hop the alderman H. Sierau from Dortmund and the mayor of Waltrop, Willi Scheffers, will give the Group the honour of a meeting.
24th July 2003
Global-Friendship-Cup
The often desired Europe-Cup of the National Champions was archetype for the Global-Friendship-Cup (GFC) which will handed out to the captain of the victorious Team after the final whistle of the Mega-Soccer-Event on the 3rd August (TuS Einigkeit Melle vs. Global-Friendship-Allstars). Should the match end in a draw, there will be no extension time or "golden-goal". The winner will be ascertained by a sausage-eating-bet, cherry-seed-long-spitting and a song-contest. An innovated rule interpretation - the FIFA-President had agreed explicit and benevolent.
(Sorry for this bad translation, but it is difficult to find the correct terms for Michaels astonishing Ideas)
24th July 2003
Nowivok on top
Ulrich Nowivok from the Agenda-21-Forum Berlin will wait for the Global Friends among other bikers on the gates of Berlin (13th August, 10:00 a.m., Schildow / church place), to ride together with the whole Group across the "Wall-bikeway" till the center of Berlin.
24th July 2003
Up and away
999 Global-Friendship-Tour-Balloons in all colours of the rainbow and with an imprint of the Global-Friendship-Tour-Logo have arrived in the meantime.
23rd July 2003
Safety by ABUS!!
To secure the bikes on stops and breaks during the tour, the company ABUS bestows chains and locks for the bikes. Thanks!
Please have a look who sponsors the tour
23rd July 2003
Flyer in printing
5000 Flyer with the message of the Global-Friendship-Tour were printed. The first will been sent by gas-filled balloons in the sky on friday, 1st August at the starting of the tour. With this they will give the word "flyer" the real meaning.
23rd July 2003
Circle of Friends Jekaterinburg takes part!
Eva Gothsch, chairwomen of the circle of friends of Jekaterinburg, will take part at the Global-Friendship-Party with some more members from the circle, among others Mr Albrecht Fischer von Mollard, who had substantially endeavoured for the participating of the russian Friends.
22th July 2003
WZ invites to riding with the team
The local newspaper "Westdeutsche Zeitung - WZ" reports of the Global-Friendship-tour in the issue of today and invites all citizens to escort the Global Friends a little bit on the first hop and to say good-bye to the team.
22th July 2003
Global-Friendship-Banner Finished
The Start-and-Destination-Welcome-Banner of the Global-Friendship-Tour is ready. From the 29th July it will decorate the front of the town hall in Wuppertal beside the flags of the participating nations. From the 1st August it will be in the luggage of the Global-Friendship-Team.
22th July 2003
press-date at Liebenwalde
The newspaper "Oranienburger Generalanzeiger" intends to send out a photographer to the ferry at Liebenwalde to document the crossing of the Finow-canal by the Global-Friendship-Team on the 12th August at 2:05 p.m.
21st July 2003
"Hardt": Friendship-Tree will be planted
The Global-Friends will plant a lime- or a maple-tree at the 30th July on the "Hardt". This Global-Friendship-Tree should remind for this unique Event, where people from the twin towns of Wuppertal out of 7 countries and from Wuppertal nearly three weeks joined in common doing. Might the Friendhip-tree and the friendship between nations grow well!
20th July 2003
Prof. Dr. Ziegler opens the Event
The chief of the public relation office of Wuppertal, Prof. Dr. Ernst Ziegler, will open on the 29th July at 6:00 p.m. the Global-Fiendship-Meeting at the ecumenical workshop on the "Hardt". Prof. Dr. Ziegler is the driving force for the twin town interchange an the engine of the municipal foreign policy.
19th July 2003
Route-Group: Managed!
At last Anne, Bettina, Brigitte and Gerhard had finished the official detailed map-sets for the Global-Fiendship-Tour in a six-hours-working-session.
18th July 2003
Henryk comes!!!
Great news from Legnica! With Henryk Zelek from EKORAMA / Legnica a father of the movement of the green-routes through europe will take part at the Global-Friendship-Tour 2003. A great enrichment for the Global-Friends-Team! Henryk was co-organizer of the Zielona-Droga-Rides between Legnica and Wuppertal in 2000 and 2002. In the next weeks, he will will build up his condition for the big ride with a tour through Czechia.
18th July 2003
Visas are recieved!
The russian participants have got their visas. Also they've got the flight tickets in their hands! We look forward for Larissa, Viktor, Anton and Konstantin from Jekaterinburg.
18th July 2003
Environemental-Chief opens Party
Harald Bayer, municipal leader of the business division for "Environement, Green Spaces and Geo-Data" of Wuppertal, will open the Global-Friendship-Party at he cultural-centre "Färberei" at 31st July 2003. The municipal AGENDA-bureau is located in the business division of Harald Bayer. The AGENDA-bureau, in person the leader of the bureau Franz Scholz, was definitive responsible for the preparation and realisation of the Project.
18th July 2003
Escorted by ADFC
The ADFC ("Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad Club") is the general bikers club of germany. Christoph Lemm, ADFC Tour-Guide from Wuppertal, give himself the honor to escort the Global-Friends on their first hop in the direction "Ruhrgebiet" on friday 1st August. Nice, isn't it?
18th July 2003
EKORAMA-Friends in Berlin!!!
Now it is official: Chairman of EKORAMA Robert Pirecki with his wife, also the "Zielona-Droga-Activist" Janusz Hawryluk and Janina Lisowska (press spokeswomen of the city of Legnica) will come to Berlin to meet the Global-Friendship-Team at 15th August. We felt honored! Witamy at Berlin!
18th July 2003
Reception at Schwerin
Participants of the european Youth-Meeting in Schwerin will ride a small part towards the Global-Friendship-Team at 8th August. This joyful news come to us by Antje Plotz, organizer of the event at Schwerin. From Holthusen ("in front of the gates" of our twin town from Mecklenburg) the ride goes on escorted by police to the Castle of Schwerin.
18th July 2003
Citizens on Move
It is GREAT! More and more citizens from the locations at the tour and from the hops log on the Global-friendship-Tour-Phone to join us to escort the tour for a while. Actually there are appointments from Bad Oeynhausen and Bünde!
17th July 2003
Prof. Dr. Maser at "Farewell-Evening" in the cultural centre "Färberei"
The chairman of the "Circle of Friends Legnica" Prof. Dr. Siegfried Maser and his wife are going to take part at the Global-Fiendship-Farewell-Party on 31st July. Both suporrted and escorted the "Zielona Droga Tour" of the Club GRÜNER WEG e.V. to Legnica (Poland) in 2000.
17th July 2003
Mueß: Trees for friendship between nations
As reminder for the Global-Friendship-Tour the Global-Friends will plant nine "Life-Trees" (Arborvitae) together with the participants of the European Week of the Youth at the open-air grounds of the country boardingschool Mueß in Schwerin on the 9th August. Representative for the nine participating nations (Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Turkey, Israel, Nicaragua, Germany) a small tree will be planted.
16th July 2003
Arrivals on Tuesday
Lenka and Martin from Kosice/Slovakia will arrive at the Central Station in Wuppertal on the 29th July at 10:41 a.m. - via Praha / Nürnberg. The four polish friends will arrive already between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. thanks Henryk :) at the "Hardt". The seven cylists of the english twin town will been awaited around 2:00 p.m.
16th July 2003
River Elbe falls dry
An extreme low level of the river Elbe impairs the ferries. If nothing changes in the next three weeks and the ferry near Hitzacker isn't operating, the Global-friendship-tour had to ride a small detour over a bridge across the river Elbe at 8th August.
16th July 2003
Balloons for Global-Friendship
With a mass-starting of ballons in front of the town hall in Wuppertal, the Global-Friendship-Tour demonstrate the beginning of the ride. Also at the destination (13. August Berlin Brandenburg-Gate) 99-Balloons will climb the heaven over Berlin to send the message of the Global-Friends to the world.
16th July 2003
Escort desired!
Singles, also groups from all cities and communities nearby the Global-Friendship-Route are hearty invited to escort the tour for a while, e.g. for an half-day-tour or perhaps a whole day-ride. Current news for meeting-points everytime on the
Global-Friendship-Tour-Phone:
0172 - 2172299
16. Juli 2003
Friends from Schwerin come by Intercity
Anja, Annette and Martina from Schwerin arrive on 29th July at 3:11 p.m. at Wuppertal central station.
16th July 2003
Bigge in Melle
Our Global-Friendship-Sponsor Bernd Bigge (HaKo-Mountings) announced his visit at the football match of the Year "TuS Einigkeit Melle" vs. "Global-Friendship-All-Stars" on 3th August, 6:30 p.m. (Melle, Stadium Waldstrasse).
"I will grab the opportunity to see the acting of Roberto Carlos, Moore, Charlton, Hall, Schäfer, Rudenko and all the other Global-Stars", said footbal-fan Bigge expressing his pleasant anticipation.
15th July 2003
Finally: the right names!
Since weeks the wrong names of our three global-friends from Beer Sheva stray through the paper- and e-news. Here and now the correct names of our participants from Israel: Raphael Faibish, Amir Daniel, Ludwig Frid.
Sorry boys!
15th July 2003
Jürgen push the tour to the web
Jürgen Schumann, communication expert, participant of the "Napriek-Tomu"-Expedition to Kosice in 2002 and at that time on-tour web-reporter, will publish the daily news of the tour during the ride on this pages in the web. Thanks Jürgen!
Thanks MiLu for your kind regards. I hope you got a lot of fun during the ride and my best wishes for all global friends! CU in Wuppertal ;)
14th July 2003
Dr. Molitor opens circle of lectures
With a lecture about Cycling in the "Bergisch Land" by Dr. Molitor (REGIONALE-Office) the "Wuppertal-Day" will be opend.
The venue is the ecumenical workshop at the "Hardt" 30th July, 9:00 a.m.
14th July 2003
Editorial Staff of the WAZ climbs on bike
The local editorial staff of the "Westdeutsche-Allgemeine-Zeitung" (WAZ) from Waltrop / Oer-Erkenschwick will escort the Global-Friendship-Team on the first part at 1st August. The WAZ is one of the leading Newspaper in this area.
13th July 2003
Annette for Doreen
Worse luck: Doreen Böttcher has cancelled her participation by job-related reasons. Annette Klinger will take Doreens place in the Global-Fiendship-Tour. Welcome to the team, Annette!
12th July 2003
Farewell-party at UFA-Factory
The final event of the Global-Friendship-Tour ("Global-Friendship-Farewell-Party") take place at the legendary UFA-factory Berlin on the evening of 15th July. Among other things a Variete-Show is on that night. Negotiations for an act by a well-known Rock-Band were running.
12th July 2003
Karin comes along
Karin Diefenthal, pioneer of the "Zielona-Droga" from 2000, will drive the "Global-Friendship-Mobile". The press office will be established in the "GF-Mobile" which will escort the Team till Berlin.
11th July 2003
Tour-Shirts In Production
The "Official Global-Friendship-Tour-T-Shirts" were in production. The top-fashion Shirts with the official emblem of the Tour will be soon desired collector-items.
11th July 2003
Witamy EKORAMA!
The Chairman of EKORAMA Robert Pirecki and three more freinds from Poland will arrive on Friday 15th August at Berlin. They will come (by car) to take part in the programm of the day and for the Global-Friendship-Farewell-Evening.
11th July 2003
Monday evening: welcome Beer Sheva!
The three global-friends Amir, Freed and Rafi from Israel will arrive on the 28th July at 10:10 p.m. on Düsseldorf Airport with flight LH0202
11th July 2003
Welcome Kosice!
Lenka and Martin from Kosice will arrive Wuppertal by train on Tuesday forenoon (29th August). We whish a nice trip (24h-sigh) and hearty welcome L & K !
10th July 2003
Global-Friendship-Suppot-Teams completed!
Anne Stone, Christian Mohrhenn and Klaus-Dieter Blank will escort the tour as service-team. Helma Ewich, Annelie Brücher-Mohrhenn und Lulu Mohrhenn were building the press- customer-care- and information-team. Also at the escort-team:
Antja Zeis-Loi as tour-photographer
10th July 2003
Rinteln - here we come!
The pretty town Rinteln advertises on her web-pages (www.rinteln.de) the Global-Friendship-Tour. At the historic market in Rinteln, the tour had a rest till 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. The Mayor of Rinteln Karl-Heinz Buchholz will give the global-friends an official reception. We look forward to Rinteln and for many many visitors from Rinteln. BTW: twin towns from Rinteln are Kendal (GB) and Slawno (PL).
10th July 2003
Town Hall will be flagged
The flags of the nations, wich will participate in the Global-Friendship-Tour, will decorate the frontside of the town hall in Wuppertal. Many thanks to Peter Keller from the municipal company for sports and baths, Mr Müller from the hall of the university and Harald Uhr from the town hall service!
10th July 2003
With Martina into Münster
Martina Güttler from the planning agency of the town Münster will receipe the Global-Friendship-Expedition on the city border at 2nd August. She will give us an open-air-presentation about the "bikers paradise" Münster and thereafter lead the tour into the center of the city.
10th July 2003
Russian friends will be the first
On Monday, 28th July, Larissa, Viktor, Anton and Konstantin - the global-friends from Jekatarinburg - will arrive Wuppertal. According to schedule flight Moscow - Düsseldorf: 12:40 a.m.
10th July 2003
THE FIVE GLOBAL-FRIENDSHIP-DREAM-TEAMS
The Groups of the 49 cyclists from Matagalpa (MAT), Jekaterinburg (JEK), Beer Sheva (BS), Legnica (LEG), Kosice (KOS), South Tyneside (ST), Schwerin (SCHW) and Wuppertal (W) were fixed. See the right column.
9th July 2003
GLOBAL-FRIENDSHIP-DRAGONS vs. EUROPEAN SHARKS
At the 8th August adversaries to the "GLOBAL-FRIENDSHIP-DRAGONS" in the dragon-boat-race will be an international top-class composite crew from the CLUB EUROPA SCHWERIN e.V. with crewmen from Schwerin, Izmir (Turkey), Leeds (GB) and Tallin (Estonia). The start-shot will be given at 7:00 p.m. - The crew of each dragon-boat counts 20 persons - The distance were 250, 500 and 1000 meters.
9th July 2003
What does it mean, day off?
Mr Brenz, cycle-commisary from the town Schwerin offers at the 9th August from 2:00 p.m. a small pretty cosy cycling round-trip around Schwerin (ca 20 km). The organisation team works on further activities for the afternoon, e.g. a Neptune-party at (and in) the lake Schwerin.
9th July 2003
Klaus Dieter on tour
Klaus Dieter Blank goes on the road, escorted by the global-fiendship-dog "Peggy", to hang out posters in all hops on the route. So he advertises the project and animate people to take part on the activities along the route. Super Klau-Di!
9th July 2003
Help from the Circles of Friends
Ms Maser (Circle of Friends Legnica), Ms Sparrer (Circle of Friends Matagalpa), Mr Fischer von Mollard (Circle of Friends Jekaterinburg) und Mr Prof. Dr. Werschinin (chairman of the society Russia-Germany / Jekaterinburg) ensured their support at the local preparation meeting of the participants of the project yesterday. Therefore: Much obliged!
8th Juli 2003
Matagalpa - Miami - Madrid - Barmen
Yara, Guillermo Santiago, Roberto Carlos, Jaime Perez and Miguel Angel will arrive on Düsseldorf Airport - via Miami and Madrid - at the 29th July.
8th Juli 2003
Münster: Mayor give welcome!
The Global-Friendship-Team will get an official welcome by the Mayor of Münster at the new town hall place at 2nd August 5:00 p.m.
8th Juli 2003
Ewa, Olga, Lukas and Piotr will come by bus
(Update to 7th July)
To prevent complications, on reason of the walkout by the polish railroad worker, the delegation from Legnica will travel with an hired bus. Have a nice trip!
8th Juli 2003
Mr. Aschbrenner welcomes
- Mr. Lang-Deichman says good bye
At the town hall in Dannenberg the head of the administration of the county Lüchow-Dannenberg Dieter Aschbrenner will receive the global freinds at 7th August 5:30 p.m.
Next day, the mayor of Hitzacker, Jochen Lang-Deichmann, will say good bye to the group.
7th July 2003
Freinds from Poland travel by train
Ewa, Olga, Lukasz and Piotr, the polish participants of the global-fiendship-tour will arrive at 29th July 6:24 p.m. by train via Hamm at Wuppertal central station.
7th July 2003
All lissomely - Thank FASI!
The Company FASI security products supports the global-friendship-tour with helmets, caps and plenteous lubricants. Thanks FASI for supporting!
7th July 2003
Love at the first sight?
The participants of the global-freinship-meeting will take the first sight (often mostly decisive) on their twin town Wuppertal from the top of the Bismarck-tower. The tower will be opend exclusive for our twin town guests by the tower guards Karl Heinz Glöckner and Harald Müller at 29th July from 8:00 p.m.
6th July 2003
Posters were ready
Fresh from the printing press 1.000 posters of the global-friendship-tour have arrived now. All over the republik (particularly in the twin towns) the posters will be distributed on the route. They should advertise the project and invite to take part at the local sections of the route.
6th July 2003
Schimmi invited
Horst Szymaniak, born in Erkenschwick, nowadays living in Melle, Wuppertals first and (till today) only national kicker, participant of the world championship 1958 and 1962, professional for Inter Mailand - winner of the europe champions cup, is invited by the organisation team to be a guest of honor at the game of the year "TuS Einigkeit Melle vs. Global-Freindship-All-Star-Team". (3rd August at the stadium Waldstrasse in Melle).
Possibly (and so we hope!!!) the unforgettable "Schimmi" will give the teams the honor for the kick off by himself.
5th July 2003
Lina in top form
A two day single ride over 220 km was completed successfully by Lina Donath to her birthplace Goldhausen nearby Korbach/Hessen. Her ride traversed the ridges of Nordhelle, Ebbe-Mountains and the Highlands of south-westfalia. On this way, she trained for the great tour to Berlin. Respect, Lina!
4th July 2003
Magical: Don Martino at the old dye-house
The global-fiendship-party at 31st July at the "Wuppertaler Färberei" (an old dye-house, nowadays culture centre) will be moderated by Martin Bang ("Don Martino"). Martin works as collaborator at the "NRW-Energie-Agentur", an agency for consulting. He is an Agenda-21-activist and since many years he sympathizes with the GRÜNEN WEG - by the way he is also a most gifted entertainer, juggler and magician(!).
4th July 2003
International Meeting in Schwerin
During the stay at Schwerin (8th - 10th August) the global-friendship-team will meet the Youth-Delegations from Tallin (Estonia) and Leeds (Great Britain). Together with a dance-group from Turkey, which stayed at the same time in Schwerin, there will be arranged a common evening at the 9th August.
4th July 2003
Wuppertal: Don't forget!
Next tuesday (8th July) at 6:00 p.m. in the town hall Barmen (room 260) is the fixed preparation meeting for Wuppertaler participants.
Also welcome are the representatives and activists of the circles of friends and partnership associations.
4th July 2003
Great support by Anne and Christian!!
Anne Stone and Christian Morhenn have agreed to squire the cyclists as escort-crew on the ca 900 km global-friendship-tour and to support the project in many respects.
Thanks-Thanks-Thanks!!!
4th July 2003
EKORAMA goes to Berlin
Under the leadership of Henry Zelek (will come with a friend by bike!!!) and Zofia Kondratiuk (will come with other friends by car) a delegation of the biking club EKORAMA will arrive at 13th August from Legnica in Berlin, recieve the global-friendship-Team and will take part at the programm in Berlin till 16th August.
3rd July 2003
Inowroclaw-Meeting in Bad Oeynhausen
On 4th August at 1:00 p.m. there will be a meeting of the global-friendship-equipe and The "Städtepartnerschaftsverein Inowroclaw" (the twin town friends). President of the association is Mr Sunderbrink. Inowroclaw (Kujawien / Poland) is also twin town of Bad Oeynhausen like Fismes (France) and Wear Valley District (England).
3rd July 2003
Lord Mayor of Waltrop visit the route
Willi Scheffers, Lord Mayor of Waltrop will give honor to the global-friendship-team, too. He will welcome the 50 Cyclist on 1st August at 6:00 p.m. at the famous Henrichenburg lift-lock. By the way, one of the twin towns of Waltrop is San Miguelito in Nicaragua.
3rd July 2003
Global-friendship-tour-leaflet has arrived!
The 16 pages counting GLOBAL-FRIENDSHIP-LEAFLET with the greeting messages of the minister of environment Jürgen Trittin and lord mayor Dr. Hans Kremendahl, the official tour-program including a detailed timetable and plan of the route, informations of all twin towns of Wuppertal and many other facts around the global-friendship-event was published today!
All participants, the circle of friends and partner associations as well as all partners in the towns on the route will get the Leaflet in the next days. Interests can get the leaflet from the GRÜNEN WEG e.V. or the AGENDA-Bureau (Phone or E-Mail see Register or Forum/Guestbook).
Alas, the leaflet is published in german only :(
3rd July 2003
Klaus care of aches
Klaus Dieter Blank, will escort the global-fiendship-tour as qualified ambulance men with his van. We hope, Klaus will reach his home town relaxed and without being "medical-active" ;)
2nd July 2003
Jumping on the global-friendship-train
Last-minute, Heidi and Edgar Hahn have subscribed for the tour. Some of the special experience of the two cyclists from Schwelm is a trip "Vancouver - San Francisco".
Welcome to the club.
2nd July 2003
Best wishes by Zöllmer
With a polite letter the member of the Bundestag, Manfred Zöllmer, wishes the global-friendship-mission good success!
Thanks MdB Zöllmer!
2nd July 2003
Lord Mayor give Starting Shot
Dr. Hans Kremendahl, Lord Mayor of Wuppertal, has invited the participants of the tour to an official reception in the town hall. The Lord Mayor himself will give the start shot for the global-friensdship-tour on the town hall place at 1st August.
28 days left til start!
2nd July 2003
German-British Friends come to Bövinghausen
Fabulous! The German-British-Club from Holzwickede meet in Dortmund-Bövinghausen the global-friendship-team and will escort for a while the 50 cyclists on the green route. At the 1st August (visiting the "Zeche Zollern II") also the Lord Mayor of Dortmund will meet the Team.
We are happy!
2nd July 2003
Great Honor - Lord Mayors will greet the global-friendship-team
Also in Münster (at the historic "Prinzipalmarkt") the global-friendship-biker will get an official reception by the Lord Mayor of the town. Also confirmed are the official receptions in:
Bad Iburg (BM Heiner Tyssen at the castle place Iburg),
Bad Oeynhausen (BM Gerhard Paul at Inowraclaw-Place),
Rinteln (BM Karl-Heinz Buchholz at the market place),
Hameln (OB Klaus Arnecke at the town hall),
Springe (BM Jörg-Roger Hische at the town hall),
Hannover (OB Herbert Schmalstieg at the town hall),
Celle (OB Martin Biermann at the town hall)
and Schwerin (OB Norbert Claussen at the town hall)
1st July 2003
Politic notables at start
Ursula Lietz, member of the Bundestag for Wuppertal, will be at the start of the Global-Friendship-Tour at the townhall place in Wuppertal-Barmen. She will give the 54 cyclists from Wuppertal and the 8 twin towns from 7 countries a good farewell.
1st July 2003
Soccer-Fever in Melle
- Stadium "Waldstrasse" most convenient
The stadium will be the stage of the soccer-match "TuS Einigkeit Melle vs. Global Friendship Team" in the evening of the 3rd August. The match is also known as the "Game of the Year".
The stadium on the Waldstrasse in Melle fulfills all official guidelines of the FIFA and the UEFA. This is the result of an inspection of the stadium and the top-level discussion between the managers of the teams (Gerd Hodermann and Günter Eser from TuS Einigkeit Melle plus Wolfgang Mohrhenn and Michael Lutz from Global-Friendship-Team).
After the bankrupt of "Kirch-Media" there would be no TV-Live-Reporting on EUROSPORT/DSF/SAT/RTL, so the organizers count on a full house. The preparations for the following banquet meal and the "players-night" have started already.
1st July 2003
Hope for St.Etienne
There is hope for participants from the twin town St.Etienne. In the town hall of the city at the Loire, there were made efforts to win interests for the global-friendship-tour.
1st July 2003
Tour-leaflet ready on Thursday!
Thursday, 3rd July, the 16 page official Global-Friendship-Tour-Leaflet will be there:
fresh from the printing press. All partcipants and towns, associations, partners on the route will get a copy soon.
1st July 2003
Police Escort
On different town arrivals and departures, the global-friendship-team will be escorted by the police. E.g. in Wuppertal, Oer-Erkenschwick, Münster, Hannover, Schwerin and Berlin.
An cordial Thanks for our police!
30th June 2003
English friends travel by ferry
Only 3 of 7 bikes would be carried from Newcastle to Düsseldorf by plane. So our english participants have decieded to travel with an own van and the ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam.
30th June 2003
Uncle O. meets global-friends
Oliver Warncke ("Uncle O."), honorary member of the "Grünen Weg e.V." from Schwerin, will coming up to meet the global-friendship-tour on the border of the city of Schwerin at 8th August.
29th June 2003
Last research for the route
Once again, the course of the 2nd hop (Oer-Erkenschwick to Münster) was inspected and optimized:
65 beautiful kilometers along the old waterway, the Dortmund-Ems-Canal, and through the pretty landscape of the southern "Münsterland" - lunchbreak under a 1000 year old lime-tree in Lüdinghausen.
28th June 2003
Lenka comes from Kosice
The 19 years old student Lenka Hroncekova from our slovakian twin town Kosice take part at the global-friendship-tour. Cordial welcome Martin and Lenka!
28th June 2003
Biker #19 from Wuppertal: Hermann Biewald
Hermann Biewald has subscribed as our 19th participant from Wuppertal. Thereto Cyclists from Schwerin (3), Kosice (2), Beer Sheva (3), South Tyneside (7), Legnica (5), Jekaterinburg (4) and Matagalpa (5) will constitute the global-friendship-team.
27th June 2003
English freinds will arrive already monday
Deborah, Danielle, Jade, Ian, Steven, Andrew and Allen, our seven friends from South-Tyneside will arrive as the first participants of the global-friendship-tour already on monday 28th July at 8:30 a.m. at Düsseldorf Airport.
You are welcome!
27th June 2003
Antje takes pictures
We're highly pleased! On official mission Antje Zeis-Loi, photographer at the media center Wuppertal, will accompanie and document photographic the global-friendship-tour. An exhibition is planned in 2004.
26th June 2003
Worse luck for Herbert
Herbert Specht, hero from Haselrain, green-route-pioneer in 1999, had an bad injury at his shoulder from a training for the global-friendship-tour. We hope, that the injury will be cured until the start at 1st August. Get well soon!
26th June 2003
Welcome Kosice!
Martin Zdila (23) is the representative of the slovakian twin town Kosice. Welcome at the global-friendship-team!!
26th June 2003
The "Steely Wilhelm" goes with us
After the subscription of Wilhelm Stahl, there are only two positions left for the last participants from Wuppertal. Veryfinalylastultimate deadline for the subscription is Monday, 30th June.
26th June 2003
global-friendship-birthday-parties
Jade Ridley (South Tyneside) and Anton Neretin (Jekaterinburg) will celebrate their Birthday during the global-friendship-tour. All of us are glad to be with them.
26th June 2003
Thank`s Nick!
Nick Faulkner himself will act as interpreter of the global-friendship-meeting from 29th to 31st July in Wuppertal (german/english, english/german).
Tricky Nicky, who had just finished the ride from Hull to South Tyneside in May with his form ("The-8a-Mystery-Tour"), will start again on the green-route through the North Yorkshire Moors. He would be the first, who ride the green-route to South Tyneside twice in one summer.
25th June 2003
Horst from Hannover
Horst Birka, GREEN-ROUTE-veteran and participant of the pioneer-tours to Legnica (2000), St.Etienne (2001) and Schwerin (2001) will join the global-friendship-team at Hannover (5th August) and will bike with us until Berlin.
25th June 2003
guides for the groups
"Routefinder" and "Rear-Lights" for the 5 global-friendship-tour-groups are:
group 1 - green team - Bettina Brücher / Luzia Kandolf
group 2 - blue team - Gerhard Schäfer / Eveline Hoja
group 3 - yellow team - Klaus Schneider-Ott / Anne Wichartz
group 4 - orange team - Wolfgang Mohrhenn / Brigitte Willms
group 5 - gourmand-team - Angelika Schlemmer / Michael Lutz
24th June 2003
Lina Donath in the "hall of fame"
Lina Donath writes a chapter of bicycle- and twin-town-history. She will be the first women from Wuppertal, who has visited all twin towns in europe by bike. Lina has take part at the green-route-expeditions in 1999 (South Tyneside), 2000 (Legnica), 2001 (St.Etienne) and 2002 (Kosice). At the 1st August she will be one of 60 participants which will start the journey via Schwerin to Berlin.
24th June 2003
GEPA takes care for food and drink!
The society for the funding of partnership with the third world (GEPA) supports the global-friendship-tour with marching rations! Coffee, tea, juices, candy- and fruit-bars from fair trading will speed up the cyclists on their long way to Berlin!
Thanks GEPA!!!
24th June 2003
Circle of friends chairman at g-f-meeting
Arno Gerlach, chairman of the "Circle of Freinds Beer Sheva", takes part at the global-freindship-meeting from 29th til 31st June.
23th June 2003
welcome muchacos!!
Five participants from Matagalpa (our twin town in Nicaragua) have subscribed. They are:
Yara Indira Bucardo, Guillermo Santiago Zelaya, Roberto Carlos Gutierrez, Jaime Perez Perez and Miguel Angel Rodriguez.
22th June 2003
Seven brave "Geordies"
From South Tyneside will be "at start":
Ian Charlton, Deborah Ford, Steven Hall, Danielle Law, Allan Moore, Jade Ridley und Andrew Thomson.
22th June 2003
Official reception in Berlin by foreign office confirmed
The "global-freinds" will be received at the foreign ministers office in Berlin at 14th August. Then we will ceremoniously deliver the greeting messages for peace and understanding among nations, which we collect during our ride.
21th June 2003
4 biking friends from Jekaterinburg will join the global-friendship-tour
From our twin town Jekaterinburg/Sverdlovsk (Russia):
Larissa Sokolova, Konstantin Kisselev, Anton Neretin und Viktor Rudenko take part of the "global-friendship-tour"!
Welcome at 29th July!!
20th June 2003
Leo takes part!!
Another pioneer of the "green-route-junior-tour" will be partcipant of this year's global-friendship-tour to Berlin:
Leo Geppert (19) from Wuppertal
20th June 2003
Welcome EKORAMA!
Olga Pirecka from Legnica is the youngest participant of the global-friendship-tour. From our twin town in Poland there will also bike with us:
Ewa Trzmielewska, Lukas Hawryluk, Mateusz Jarosz and Piotr Palacz.
More friends from our partner-club EKORAMA in Poland were expected at Berlin.
20th June 2003
Helmets for all
The company ABUS from Wetter/Ruhr will fit out all participants of the global-friendship-tour with ultra-modern cycling-helmets.
Thanks ABUS!!
19th June 2003
Schwerin "at start"
Martina Böttcher from Schwerin, pioneer of the first "green-route-junior-tour" Wuppertal - South Tyneside (2001) is going to take part of the global-friendship-tour. She will be accompanied by her sister Doreen Böttcher and her companion Anja Flau. We are pleased for the three twin town activists from Mecklenburg!
18th June 2003
Three Biking Freinds from Beer Sheva
Raphael Faibish, Amir Daniel and Ludwig Frid have joined the crew. They come from our twin town in Israel.
We are glad to welcome them!!
18th June 2003
Good news from South Tyneside
Tom Fennelly, press spokesman of the english twin town, enthusiastic cyclist and one of the parents of the "green route" will visit the global-friendship-meeting at Wuppertal.
Fabulous! We hope, that some more "old fellows" will join the show!
15th May
Registration for international participants has been opened.
Please register until 31st May (deadline)!
Applications from Legnica, South Tyneside, Jekatarinburg, Matagalpa have come in.
Status of registration (15th May):
- South Tyneside (GB) - 7
- Jekatarinburg (RUS) - 6
- Legnica (PL) - 5
- Matagalpa (NIC) - 5
- Schwerin (D) - 4
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