Use the brown arrows
to scroll up and down
to scroll up and down
| TALK ONE BIKE RIDE FRON ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA Tom Fremantle’s first major trip was a bicycle ride between England and Australia. The two wheeled odyssey, which took 17 months, piled through 24 countries and over 12,500 miles. Tom was inspired to embark on the adventure by his ancestor, Captain Charles Fremantle. The captain sailed to Australia back in 1829 and the port of Fremantle, near to Perth, was subsequently named after him. During the trip Tom pedalled through a carnival in Marseilles, into a sand storm in Syria and down to the lowest point on the earth – the Dead Sea. He cycled up to Lhasa in Tibet, the highest city in the world and finished the trip off in the beauty and desolation of the Australian outback. He was stung by a jellyfish in Lebanon, roughed up by the Iranian religious police and struck down by dysentery in Afghanistan. He also danced a jig at a Vietnamese wedding, shot pool in Cambodia and ate goat with desert bedouin. The trip raised a total of £43,000 for the Stoke Mandeville Hospital Spinal Unit in Aylesbury. All the money has been used to buy specialised wheelchairs. Back to top |
 |
|||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
