The Road to Marrakech - Update

Patrick Sells, newly qualified from Liverpool Vet School, has started his 3,100 mile motorbike ride last week.

Before he left Leahurs, he handed over a cheque for an impressive £4,540 to our Chairman Prof Derek Knottenbelt. The grand total raised exceeds £9,500 if the value of a scanner from BCF Technologies and some £3,000 worth of equine dentistry equipment from VesVetVision are included. LUVS generously contributed £1,000.

Patrick is doing well so far, in spite of poor weather; snow in Herefordshire, torrential rain in the south of England and fog in France. Wet weather caused the engine to fail near Limoges and it took him an entire day to fix it.

Last night he was in the south of France, camping in sub-zero temperatures and will head for the Pyrenees today. With a fair wind he should reach Morocco hopefully around the end of the month.

Fingers crossed the weather gods take it easy on him for the rest of his journey and good luck from all of us here at SPANA!