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Love and cycling to Australia
By Ciaran Mundy | April 9, 2008
Paul O’Connor sent in this post on the film he has Directed about the couple that successfully pedaled from Oxford to Sydney, Australia.
Audiences for online videos are exploding. By accepting ethical sponsors such as No Flights ltd, we can give a platform for progressive companies to promote their services to genuinely interested viewers. Bike2Oz is a
very inspiring series.
Bike2Oz tells the story of Kevin Doye, a Thames train worker, and Lowanna King, a primary school teacher, who chose to pedal rather than fly to highlight the damage created by aviation to the climate. The couple filmed their entire adventure across the UK, Europe, Pakistan, India, Iran, Singapore and Australia. They married when they reached Sydney after 18 months.
The series has attracted sponsorship from a unique travel agency. NoFlights ltd was born out of a commitment to make greener modes of travel more accessible at a time when flights are accounting for an ever greater proportion of carbon emissions. The company, which launched earlier this year, have scoured the globe to put together the most exciting and unique holidays that don’t involve airports. The first episodes of the Bike2Oz.com video series with the sponsor’s logo were released online this month.
Not content with just cycling the epic journey, the couple even pedaled much of the trip twice. The bicycle duo backtracked down scenic landscapes to set up their video camera and tripod to film themselves cycling through the Swiss Alps, over the Himalayas and past the Taj Mahal in India. The series is produced by award winning
Undercurrents productions.
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