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diff --git a/bookmarks/tuk-tuk pair end 12,000-mile trek.txt b/bookmarks/tuk-tuk pair end 12,000-mile trek.txt deleted file mode 100755 index a15bb71..0000000 --- a/bookmarks/tuk-tuk pair end 12,000-mile trek.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: BBC NEWS | UK | England -date: 2006-09-06T06:53:37Z -source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/5311650.stm -tags: travel, wacky - ---- - -![Jo Huxster \(left\) and Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent in front of their pink tuk-tuk][1] - -The tuk-tuk pair have a 50,000 fundraising target for Mind - -**Two women have returned to the UK after a 12,000-mile (19,312km) charity drive through 12 countries in a pink tuk-tuk, a motorised three-wheeled rickshaw.** - -Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent, from Norfolk, and Jo Huxster, from Brighton, both 27, travelled from Thailand in the vehicle, nicknamed Ting Tong. - -They drove through pink finishing tape in Brighton having raised 25,000 for the mental health charity Mind. - -They encountered an earthquake and a herd of buffalo during their travels. - -The pair left the British Embassy in Bangkok on 28 May. - -**'Surprisingly comfortable'** - -"I'm really glad to be back, but really sad to be finished," said Ms Bolingbroke-Kent on Sunday. - -"Life after this is going to be an anti-climax," she added. - -She and Ms Huxster also drove through Laos, China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium and France. - -Ting Tong suffered a few mechanical problems on the way, but Ms Huxster "always trusted that she would get us home". - -![][2] - -![][3]**We'll have to sit and concoct another scheme** ![][4] - - -"She's surprisingly comfortable to drive in, much better than a car," she said. - -Ting Tong's occupants encountered an earthquake and landslide in China, as well as close attention from a herd of buffalo when their accelerator cable snapped. - -But they also got to drive along the Great Wall of China, and were given presents by border guards in Kazakhstan. - -They now want to raise even more money for Mind. - -"We'll have to sit and concoct another scheme," said Ms Bolingbroke-Kent. - -"I think long trips in a unique mode of transport is definitely the way forward." - -Ms Huxster added: "Ting Tong will be used to raise more money, [but] there are no plans in the immediate future to drive back to Thailand." - -[1]: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42046000/jpg/_42046028_tuktuk_return_pa.jpg -[2]: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif -[3]: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif -[4]: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif |