When seventeen-year-old David Lewis from Birmingham heard about International Travel Challenge, he was excited. The Challenge, for sixteen to twentyyear-old students, was to raise money for cancer research. The students had to complete a 1500 kilometre journey from the north to the south of Italy in less than fourteen days. The journey had to involve six different means of transport, but not car, motorbike, boat or plane.
David started his journey from Milan on 8th July and finished in Reggio di Calabria eleven days later on 19th July. On his first day he travelled by train from Milan to Florence. 'That was the easy part. It only took three and a half hours!' says David. From Florence he cycled to Rome. That took three days. From there he went by coach to Naples. It took six hours. The whole of the next day, he travelled by local bus to Cosenza. After Cosenza he walked 56 kilometres — a total of three days on foot — to Catanzaro, and then finished the whole journey, riding two days on horseback to Reggio di Calabria at the tip of southern Italy.
'It was a great experience,' says David. 'The best part was cycling from Florence to Rome. The worst part was the horse ride. It was only my second time on a horse! I was very glad to see my parents at Reggio and to have a good night's sleep in a comfortable bed!'
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