Today we started into a chilli morning. We met with the Mayor Jozef Dvonc again in front of the City hall. He lit the torch and bid us farewell on our today`s journey to Komarno.

In Branc we had great meeting at the primary school. The kids from Branc are really great. We played games, we ran together, we sung, made a lot of noise - it was really superb, but then we had to take off, direction Komjatice. We hope you are reading this as you promised.

The school soccer team joined us all the way throughout the village. On the way we have been stopped by the Mayor who wished us all the best.

In Komjatice we also visited primary school and kindergarten in a nice renovated building. We have been greeted by the school director. They have a new cool playground there. Kids prepared some great program for us - thank you Komjatice, you were awesome!

Next stop: Surany. First we went to town hall where we met the Mayor Imrich Varady and sport team kids from two different schools with their coaches. From there they later took us to a local school.

In Surany we met local TV "TV Central" who interwieved Slovak team captain Marek Ulicny. and Czech 3100 mile runner Peter Spacil.

Then we visited one school where they have some of the best teachers ever. After the introduction all the kids made a big circle in the middle and all the teachers ran one lap around them and then the kids ran for a while.

In Nove Zamky we got lost for 12 sec. full of anxiety, but then ran onto the main square. We have been greeted by the Mayor Ing. Gejza Pischinger - great man and got to taste (literally, some really great pagace) his hospitality. Happily we presented him with the "Torch bearer award". Some school kids came to greet us. After a short introduction they started to ask us questions about the run. Boy, they asked us some really funny questions. After convincing them that we really do run in rain too and that we do take food while runnig, we emabarked on our journey again.

In Hurbanovo Mrs. Mayor Zemkova, lots of people and kids were waiting for us at the town hall. Here again school girls had prepaired some marching performance. Mrs. Mayor gave a very nice speech about the meaning of harmony. Then we presented her with the "Torch bearer award" for all the good work she is doing. We signed the city chronicle, passed the torch among all the people present nad ran off supported by the local school soccer team.

Our last city of today - Komarno. We have finished on the Gen. Klapka square, greeted by the city officials.

After the presentation of WHR we had a tour in Europe square that is a must see for every visitor of Komarno. Imagine some 20 buildings one next to another each build in a style that represents one European country. Resembles some sort of beautiful fairy land.

The very opposite was a guided tour in the Komarno fortress which is the largest defense fortification in Middle Europe. A good reminder of what fear on one side and aggresion on other side can make people do. And that is what WHR is also about - to help that instead of building concrete fortifications we try to tear down the mental ones in us.

– Jana Chochlikova

Distance: 71 km

Team Members:
Roos de Waart (Holland), Anita Borics (Hungary), Balavan Thomas (UK), Vladimir Sulnicov (Moldova), Klaus Schulz (Germany), Petr Hlava (Czech Republik), Sumahat Strohn (Austria), Alladin Teherani (Iran), Israel Cordeiro (Brazil), Mark Collinson (UK)

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