Setting off on the 1st July 2006 I will cycle through fourteen countries. Challenge A2Z will take me from Alton England to Russia and return.

To add an additional challenge I am planning this route alphabetically according to the names of towns along the way, literally from A to Z. This will take three months covering a distance of 3,000 to 4,000 miles.

This is to raise £30,000 for EDSA (averaging £10 a mile). EDSA is an Oxfordshire based charity dedicated to supporting the education of young black people living in the poverty of the townships and informal settlements of the Western Cape.