Seven-year trans-global 'honeymoon' for newlyweds
A newlywed couple are setting off on a seven-year journey to walk from one side of the globe to the other.
Covering around 40,000 miles, through more than 30 countries and encountering vast extremes of temperature, James Tremayne and his wife Louise Hoole will tread an ancient route first walked by early mankind.
Married just two months ago, Mr Tremayne, 28, said the adventure, called Footsteps of Man, will be like a honeymoon for him and his 30-year-old bride.
Speaking shortly before jetting off to the start of the route in South Africa, he said he could not wait to get going.
"I don't think it's that mad. It's going to be such an exciting journey. It's been so long in the planning I just can't wait to go," he said.
Mr Tremayne, from Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxfordshire, has given up his job as a marine biologist to take on the challenge.
Together with tourism officer David Thompson, 26, whom he met at Nottingham Trent university as a student, he will walk the whole route while his wife will join them for a month at a time.
The route starts at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa on May 1 and heads northwards across the Red Sea into Asia.
It continues through Asia and through the Americas, ending at Cape Horn, the tip of South America.
