£2000 WAGER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23157, 1 October 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

£2OOO WAGER

SEQUEL TO PARTY ■ ENGINEER'S LONG WALK MUST "WORK ' HIS PASSAGE" "It all goes back to the night .when we had a private party at the c üb, said a' man who is .walking round the world' for a Avagef of £2OOO. Di-V-' Charles . Nordfort, 39-year-old Danislf engineer, who has completed a quarter'or this' 36,000-imle tour, was recently in London en route for America,' and later China and Japan. f'X don't regret having, made the bet'* 1 ho told an interviewer at the U 1936, Wo M » convivial ev'ening at the club and next morning I found that I had signed a kind of' agreement to walk round Europe, paying iiiy way with nothing but what 1 receive from selling postcards of njvself. "1 said. 'That's easy. I'll take the bet on and walk round the world without touching my bank account or wiring home for money.' » . "So I set out for Berlin and since 1836 I have walked right through tiermany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, France and Belgium. And people havo been good. "If I coninlete the trip—and. I can see nothing to stop me at the moment —I make £2OOO. If 1 give in 1 shall have to pay £250. "I've been penniless at times. And it was very, very hard to get through the countrv areas of Bulgaria. "In Italv most of my belongings, including my camera, were stolen, but there has been nothing serious enough to make me give in."