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2004
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Nicholson and Joanne Bowlt |
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With
a mission to raise funds for the British Red Cross, Tim and Joanne
are going to take the longest car journey of their lives. |
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Celebrating
the fiftieth anniversary of the Morris Oxford, Tim Nicholson and
Joanne Bowlt, are driving from Oxford, United Kingdom, to Oxford,
New Zealand, in a 1954 Morris Series II.
Tim
and Joanne are self-funding the trip but are Red Cross volunteers
and hope to raise a substantial sum for the charity in the process.
The pair who are graduates from Brookes and Oxford University have
put all their belongings in storage, and let their flats in order
to undertake the mamoth trip across the world. Their journey will
take them through France and Spain to Morocco then across North
Africa to Egypt. By ship to India, drive around the Southern tip,
and then ship via Singapore to Australia and finally to Oxford,
New Zealand.
Oxford's
Kiwi namesake is a small rural village on the Waimakariri River,
55 km from Christchurch. The pair hope to arrive at their final
destination in February 2005.
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