Cycles 5000 Miles on Trip to Artic

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 306, 28 December 1936, Page 10

Cycles 5000 Miles on Trip to Artic

I ti.l» M J NGUAM. After cycling through Europe to the Arctic Circle. Mr Charles Ehrenzeller, of Birmingham, has reached home again. He went alone and the 0000-inile journey—loo ( ’ miles of it were by fishing boat—too,% him three, months. Starting his European journey from Calais, he cycled through Belgium, Germany and Denmark to Copenhagen, crossed over the Sweden and travelled up the east coast to Tornio. From Tornio he pedaled on through Finland to Rovaniemio. Then he began his ride along the great. Arctic highway—miles and miles between the occasional, tiny villages. Eventually he reached Hammerfest by travelling part of the way across the Arctic ocean iu a fishing boat. Ou the return journey he cycled down the west coast of Norway. “Your wife boasts she's made a man of you. Now, my wife never says things like that.” “No; but she did tell mine that she'd done her best.”