जनवरी 17, 2020 Live from the road

Heraklion

Reported by Devashishu Torpy 1.0 km

The island of Crete in the winter months.

A blue and peaceful sky

Preparing the torch for Pangritio School in Heraklion.

We have a large Peace Run team representing more than 25 countries.

These two girls are from the Netherlands!

Victoria is from Colombia.

The children create a relay, passing the torch from runner to runner.

Irini is our coordinator. her name means 'Peace' in Greek!

The Director Ms Maria Astrinaki offers us some biscuits. Greek tradition has it that the last person to get a biscuit will be the next person to get married!

Our friendly bus driver Mr Manolas.

It is a windy day along the craggy shore.

Our next visit is to The European school. Here there are children who were born in many different countries.

Their English is very good and they are very quick to guess the nationality of our runners.

Jonina is from the land of volcanos - Iceland.

To of our Czech runners demonstrate what the world looks like when Peace is absent.

Peace means kindness, concern and self-giving!

Each student has the opportunity to hold the torch of Peace.

Papaha from California offers some very high fives!

Mt Stergios Xatzakis, the Director, holds the torch with one of our Guatemalan runners, Gabriel.

In the Basilico in Heraklion the Peace Run is officially welcomed to Crete by the Municipality.

Torch carried by
Abhijit Emery (Canada), Amalendu Edelsten (Australia), Apaguha Vesely (Czech Republic), Brahmata Michael (Canada), Eduardo Suzuki (Brazil), Frédéric GAT (France), Gabriel Quentana (Guatemala), Gesiane Nascimento (Brazil), Goga Petrovcic (Croatia), Jónina Gísladóttir (Iceland), Josef Sverma (Czech Republic), Kazem Abhary (Iran), Leila van der Hut (Netherlands), Maria-Luiza Hariton (France), Mrittyunjoy Bader (Switzerland), Nidhruvi Zimmermann (Austria), Nirbhasa Magee (Ireland), Papaha Gosline (United States), Pushkala Tramošlica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Salil Wilson (Australia), Shumbhani Juarez (Guatemala), Smarana Puntigam (Austria), Vasanti Niemz (Germany), Victoria Aguila (Colombia), Vihan Hernandez (Guatemala), Zuzana Rybková (Czech Republic).  
Photographers
Apaguha Vesely
The torch has travelled 1.0 km in Heraklion.

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