Scots adventurer crams year's worth of travelling into two weeks costing just £71 per day
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots adventurer is half-way through a rapid world tour, visiting four of the globe's seven continents in just 16 days. Alex Hempton, from Edinburgh, and four pals planned the trip of a lifetime for £1,150 each - just £71 per day.
They set off from London last month on the jaunt after securing cheap flights while being willing to visit wherever they could.
The £1,150 they shelled out on their holiday includes accommodation.With the group on limited annual leave from their jobs, they decided to condense a typical gap-year's worth of travelling into just 16 days.
The squad is visiting Malta, Serbia, UAE, The Maldives, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Qatar, Egypt, and Greece, before finishing back in the UK.The Mirror reports how Alex used Booking.com to mass-reserve the group's accommodation for the trip, managing to keep it to just £130 per person.Alex, who works in marketing, said: "The main premise is it is with all my friends who are working and studying, and it's hard to get people together for months at a time."I got them free for two and a half weeks and went on SkyScanner and clicked 'London to everywhere' to see what comes up.
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