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My name is John Cranch. I play cricket for Dinton, and live in Wilton.  I spent a large part of my youth living in France, and have worked as a French teacher, as well as managing City Cabs Salisbury Ltd., and driving a taxi in Salisbury for over 20 years. I will be 53 years old in June. I have an old school friend called Hugh who I met on the first day of primary school in September 1959, and who now remains my best friend ever since. He now lives in the North East of England, but every year we try to find time to go cycling or hiking somewhere.

This year we are going to attempt to cycle from the English Channel to the Mediterranean, starting at Roscoff in Brittany on September 2nd, and finishing at Sete in the South of France on September 20th. Just to make the ride a little more challenging, we are going via Le Pas de Peyrol near Puy Mary, which at 1588 metres is the highest altitude of any road in the Massif Centrale. In all we believe it to be 800 miles approx. We will have a milometer on one of the bikes. 

We have decided to use this opportunity to raise some money for two charities; Medecins Sans Frontieres (M.S.F) and the Prostate Cancer Charity. M.S.F provides medical care in crisis situations throughout the world, sending volunteer doctors, nurses, logisticians and field staff to area where people may otherwise have nobody to heal them or to speak out for them. When there is a natural disaster, a war zone or a refugee camp, M.S.F is normally first in and last out. M.S.F was founded in 1971 by a small group of young doctors and journalists who believed that all people have a right to emergency medical care. It has since grown in to one of the world’s leading relief agencies, specialising in being present and active in places on one else can be or wants to be. I make regular donations to this charity and so receive their regular news letters. I am always so impressed with the young people who are able to go to disaster areas as volunteer doctors or nurses because of M.S.F that I am thankful to be able to help this organisation with a small amount of financial support. I hope that you might take this opportunity to do the same.