Re: OT: Language barrier scuppers walker

Jeff Lawrence wrote:
This guy was planning to walk from Bristol to India without any
finances, relying on the kindness of strangers, in support of some
movement that wants to ban money. But he only gets as far as Calais
where he has to abandon the trip because he doesn't speak any French
and so the locals think he is an asylum seeker and refuse to give him
any food or shelter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7270401.stm
Cheers
Jeff

They don't seem to have a problem in the other direction. Perhaps he should have hidden in a lorry bound for India and claimed asylum at the other end.
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