This is brilliant. I just heard on the radio that a British peace campaigner decided to walk to India with no money and relying purely on the charity of those me met along the way. He said that he was warmed by the generosity of strangers in the UK, but when he hit the French coast of Calais he had trouble getting people to understand his concept. Well in fact, to understand anything at all .. wait for it .. he doesn’t speak French. Cold and hungry he was forced to return to the UK, where he now plans to walk around the coast of Britain instead.
However, he is turning that to his advantage by learning French along the way so that he can try again next year.
I wonder what happens when he leaves France? He’ll have to do a lap of France so that he can learn Italian, Swiss or German :)
