Suffering

When starting this blog, I did not intend to glorify in the pain we are feeling along the way, but today you will have to indulge me. Thursday 19 July was a 20 mile trip from Falkirk to Dunfermline. On top of 61 miles in the three days before it was by far our hardest trip.

One of the heroes of the last two days has been Rosalia from El Salvador. Rosalia works with communities in El Salvador who are battling against the effects of increased flooding over recent years due to more frequent and intense storms. But she was one of many who carried on through blisters determined to keep knocking the miles off. As we were covering the final few miles up to Dunfermline this evening, the two of us sang the words of an old song from apartheid South Africa:

"We shall not give up the fight we have only started.

"Together we'll have victories hand holding hand."

Elsewhere in the march Mahesh was speaking to Chira from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mahesh said: "I wonder why we are suffering like this. We are doing it on behalf of others. We cannot give up."

Distance covered so far: 81 miles
Estimated banana consumption: 120