Westheads lads are now heading out across Europe

* The lads riding off into the sunset as they headed across the Netherlands.

After a week of hard pedalling and camping three lads from the Llangollen aiming to ride 10,000 across the world to Thailand in aid of heart research are now on mainland Europe.

Friends Dyfan Hughes, 17, from Llangollen, Louis Dennis, 18, from Garth, and James Thomas,18, from Wrexham aim to cycle the 10,000 miles to Thailand in memory of Tony Edge, the father of a friend who died following a heart attack six months ago.

The intrepid trio, calling themselves the Westheads, pedalled away from Lllangollen Football Club's HQ the Saturday before last at the very start of a mammoth ride which they reckon will take them at least 18 months to complete. 

And they have been posting regular updates on their progress on social media.

* Getting ready to hot the North Sea ferry. 

Their bulletins began on day three of three of their journey with a short video which described how they had run into heavy rain just outside Leicester, Theyy also filled in details of their route, which should take them from their North Sea ferry landing point in the Hook of Holland and out through Germany, along the course of the Danube river, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey and into Georgia.

Later film updates saw them doing sometimes over 50 kms a day as they headed east towards the ferry in Harwich, stopping to buy food and even play a game of footy with some local lads they spotted along the road.

On day seven they recorded how they came ashore in the Netherlands, to buy breakfast, shop for food supplies and admit they were "buzzing with excitement".

They then found themselves some free showers for cyclists and spent their first night ashore sharing a flat with some other Brits.

* llanblogger will bring you further updates on the Westheads as they come in. You can see them yourselves here: https://linktr.ee/westheads