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34 The virtual Link Magazine now online @ www.swindonlink.com
Building on
DAN’S CYCLES Readers will recall Link articles in has set up a Swindon branch of
DAN’S CYCLES
2006 featuring the McGiffin family in Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline and
116 Manchester Road North Swindon who hosted two chil- here she describes her trip to Belarus
dren from Belarus affected by the in November to visit Kristina in her
Tel: 01793 423380 radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl village of Ozarichi, only 20 miles
disaster in 1986. Virginia McGiffin from the radiation exclusion zone.
Bikes from £39 upwards
I arrived near midnight, suitcase four consecutive days, the presi-
• Stockists of many top brands heavy with gifts for children from dent had not allowed them to be
• Two floors • In-house workshop their sponsors in Swindon. turned on for the winter.
• Wheel building • Fast turnaround on repairs The temperature was minus ten My visit took me to special needs
and very frosty, many homes have schools, orphanages, a hospital,
• Mountain bikes • Kids bikes • BMX • Hybrids • Comfort
no heating. Those that have are schools, kindergarden, but most
• Road bikes • Jump bikes • Tagalongs • Trailers heated by pipes running from cen- of all the houses of children I have
Open: Monday to Saturday 9am - 5.30pm tral village boilers. But as the tem- hosted in my own home.
perature had not been below -4 on It was very emotional to see the
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