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A Live Commentary of a Festival

Good evening and welcome to A World of Festivals. I’m Bob Peters and I’m here in Rio de Janeiro at the Sambadrome for the true highlight of the Rio Carnival, the Rio Samba Parade – the climax to this famous celebration. The atmosphere is electric here. I don’t know if I can find the words to describe it, but I’m certainly going to try for all you listeners at home.

Let’s start with a little bit of history. The Rio Samba parade actually began in local neighbourhoods with people singing and dancing on the streets. It soon turned into a competition for samba schools. It got so big that it moved off the streets in the 1980s and into the Sambadrome, a 700-metre-long stadium which can hold over 70,000 spectators. There are other carnival parades all over Rio just as there have been since the Rio Carnival started just under 300 years ago, but this parade is the big one.

Over two nights, from sunset until sunrise, samba schools compete against each other in this packed stadium and to a huge national and international television audience. These are the images of the Rio Carnival that everyone is most familiar with. I’m here on the first night of this parade, and let me tell you, looking at the standard of dancing the judges are going to have a tough time deciding who the best dancers are.

The parade so far has been choreographed to perfection, but then it has to be when there are between 3,000 and 5,000 dancers in each samba school. Each school is made up of dancers from a particular community in Rio and every dancer has a specific role to perform. Right now, for example, there’s the couple who carry a flag belonging to the school dancing at the front of this parade. They’re holding up the school’s flag. And here come the Whirling Ladies. They spin around and around and are usually the dancers with the most experience. It might look easy, but trust me, it’s not. It takes a lot of skill to keep spinning round like that for about an hour and not fall down. It’s making me feel dizzy just watching them. Coming up now is a group of about 300 drummers and in front of them is a young woman wearing an impressive costume and an elaborate headdress decorated with what looks like jewels. She’s the Queen of the Drummers and she leads the dancing to the drummers’ rhythm. It’s her job to inspire all the dancers so she needs plenty of energy and enthusiasm.

I’ve got to say a few words about the floats that we have here in the stadium, some of which are as big as a three-storey building. Some of the smaller ones are being pushed but bigger ones are motorised. These floats are absolutely amazing. I can see one that is decorated as a huge lion’s head. The floats are carrying special guests and dancers, all of them in extravagant costumes. The costumes in the parade are really colourful and incredibly well-decorated. Materials such as feathers, sequins and crystals are used and, unbelievably, they are all handmade.

When each year’s carnival finishes, people immediately start getting ready for the next. The preparations are all-year-round and that’s the case for the floats, the dancers and the bands, too. They have to rehearse for months, working with each other to perfect their timing and to build up their fitness. Everyone’s dancing, singing and for those who are beginning to get a little tired, there are refreshments like hot dogs, ice cream and soft drinks. And let me assure you, even a spectator has to keep their energy up if they want to enjoy this non-stop all-singing, all-dancing festival.

1.  1.    The commentator says that the Rio Samba Parade _____.

A Live Commentary of a Festival

Good evening and welcome to A World of Festivals. I’m Bob Peters and I’m here in Rio de Janeiro at the Sambadrome for the true highlight of the Rio Carnival, the Rio Samba Parade – the climax to this famous celebration. The atmosphere is electric here. I don’t know if I can find the words to describe it, but I’m certainly going to try for all you listeners at home.

Let’s start with a little bit of history. The Rio Samba parade actually began in local neighbourhoods with people singing and dancing on the streets. It soon turned into a competition for samba schools. It got so big that it moved off the streets in the 1980s and into the Sambadrome, a 700-metre-long stadium which can hold over 70,000 spectators. There are other carnival parades all over Rio just as there have been since the Rio Carnival started just under 300 years ago, but this parade is the big one.

Over two nights, from sunset until sunrise, samba schools compete against each other in this packed stadium and to a huge national and international television audience. These are the images of the Rio Carnival that everyone is most familiar with. I’m here on the first night of this parade, and let me tell you, looking at the standard of dancing the judges are going to have a tough time deciding who the best dancers are.

The parade so far has been choreographed to perfection, but then it has to be when there are between 3,000 and 5,000 dancers in each samba school. Each school is made up of dancers from a particular community in Rio and every dancer has a specific role to perform. Right now, for example, there’s the couple who carry a flag belonging to the school dancing at the front of this parade. They’re holding up the school’s flag. And here come the Whirling Ladies. They spin around and around and are usually the dancers with the most experience. It might look easy, but trust me, it’s not. It takes a lot of skill to keep spinning round like that for about an hour and not fall down. It’s making me feel dizzy just watching them. Coming up now is a group of about 300 drummers and in front of them is a young woman wearing an impressive costume and an elaborate headdress decorated with what looks like jewels. She’s the Queen of the Drummers and she leads the dancing to the drummers’ rhythm. It’s her job to inspire all the dancers so she needs plenty of energy and enthusiasm.

I’ve got to say a few words about the floats that we have here in the stadium, some of which are as big as a three-storey building. Some of the smaller ones are being pushed but bigger ones are motorised. These floats are absolutely amazing. I can see one that is decorated as a huge lion’s head. The floats are carrying special guests and dancers, all of them in extravagant costumes. The costumes in the parade are really colourful and incredibly well-decorated. Materials such as feathers, sequins and crystals are used and, unbelievably, they are all handmade.

When each year’s carnival finishes, people immediately start getting ready for the next. The preparations are all-year-round and that’s the case for the floats, the dancers and the bands, too. They have to rehearse for months, working with each other to perfect their timing and to build up their fitness. Everyone’s dancing, singing and for those who are beginning to get a little tired, there are refreshments like hot dogs, ice cream and soft drinks. And let me assure you, even a spectator has to keep their energy up if they want to enjoy this non-stop all-singing, all-dancing festival.

1.2.     The samba schools that take part in the parade ______.

A Live Commentary of a Festival

Good evening and welcome to A World of Festivals. I’m Bob Peters and I’m here in Rio de Janeiro at the Sambadrome for the true highlight of the Rio Carnival, the Rio Samba Parade – the climax to this famous celebration. The atmosphere is electric here. I don’t know if I can find the words to describe it, but I’m certainly going to try for all you listeners at home.

Let’s start with a little bit of history. The Rio Samba parade actually began in local neighbourhoods with people singing and dancing on the streets. It soon turned into a competition for samba schools. It got so big that it moved off the streets in the 1980s and into the Sambadrome, a 700-metre-long stadium which can hold over 70,000 spectators. There are other carnival parades all over Rio just as there have been since the Rio Carnival started just under 300 years ago, but this parade is the big one.

Over two nights, from sunset until sunrise, samba schools compete against each other in this packed stadium and to a huge national and international television audience. These are the images of the Rio Carnival that everyone is most familiar with. I’m here on the first night of this parade, and let me tell you, looking at the standard of dancing the judges are going to have a tough time deciding who the best dancers are.

The parade so far has been choreographed to perfection, but then it has to be when there are between 3,000 and 5,000 dancers in each samba school. Each school is made up of dancers from a particular community in Rio and every dancer has a specific role to perform. Right now, for example, there’s the couple who carry a flag belonging to the school dancing at the front of this parade. They’re holding up the school’s flag. And here come the Whirling Ladies. They spin around and around and are usually the dancers with the most experience. It might look easy, but trust me, it’s not. It takes a lot of skill to keep spinning round like that for about an hour and not fall down. It’s making me feel dizzy just watching them. Coming up now is a group of about 300 drummers and in front of them is a young woman wearing an impressive costume and an elaborate headdress decorated with what looks like jewels. She’s the Queen of the Drummers and she leads the dancing to the drummers’ rhythm. It’s her job to inspire all the dancers so she needs plenty of energy and enthusiasm.

I’ve got to say a few words about the floats that we have here in the stadium, some of which are as big as a three-storey building. Some of the smaller ones are being pushed but bigger ones are motorised. These floats are absolutely amazing. I can see one that is decorated as a huge lion’s head. The floats are carrying special guests and dancers, all of them in extravagant costumes. The costumes in the parade are really colourful and incredibly well-decorated. Materials such as feathers, sequins and crystals are used and, unbelievably, they are all handmade.

When each year’s carnival finishes, people immediately start getting ready for the next. The preparations are all-year-round and that’s the case for the floats, the dancers and the bands, too. They have to rehearse for months, working with each other to perfect their timing and to build up their fitness. Everyone’s dancing, singing and for those who are beginning to get a little tired, there are refreshments like hot dogs, ice cream and soft drinks. And let me assure you, even a spectator has to keep their energy up if they want to enjoy this non-stop all-singing, all-dancing festival.

1.3.      The Whirling Ladies ______.

A Live Commentary of a Festival

Good evening and welcome to A World of Festivals. I’m Bob Peters and I’m here in Rio de Janeiro at the Sambadrome for the true highlight of the Rio Carnival, the Rio Samba Parade – the climax to this famous celebration. The atmosphere is electric here. I don’t know if I can find the words to describe it, but I’m certainly going to try for all you listeners at home.

Let’s start with a little bit of history. The Rio Samba parade actually began in local neighbourhoods with people singing and dancing on the streets. It soon turned into a competition for samba schools. It got so big that it moved off the streets in the 1980s and into the Sambadrome, a 700-metre-long stadium which can hold over 70,000 spectators. There are other carnival parades all over Rio just as there have been since the Rio Carnival started just under 300 years ago, but this parade is the big one.

Over two nights, from sunset until sunrise, samba schools compete against each other in this packed stadium and to a huge national and international television audience. These are the images of the Rio Carnival that everyone is most familiar with. I’m here on the first night of this parade, and let me tell you, looking at the standard of dancing the judges are going to have a tough time deciding who the best dancers are.

The parade so far has been choreographed to perfection, but then it has to be when there are between 3,000 and 5,000 dancers in each samba school. Each school is made up of dancers from a particular community in Rio and every dancer has a specific role to perform. Right now, for example, there’s the couple who carry a flag belonging to the school dancing at the front of this parade. They’re holding up the school’s flag. And here come the Whirling Ladies. They spin around and around and are usually the dancers with the most experience. It might look easy, but trust me, it’s not. It takes a lot of skill to keep spinning round like that for about an hour and not fall down. It’s making me feel dizzy just watching them. Coming up now is a group of about 300 drummers and in front of them is a young woman wearing an impressive costume and an elaborate headdress decorated with what looks like jewels. She’s the Queen of the Drummers and she leads the dancing to the drummers’ rhythm. It’s her job to inspire all the dancers so she needs plenty of energy and enthusiasm.

I’ve got to say a few words about the floats that we have here in the stadium, some of which are as big as a three-storey building. Some of the smaller ones are being pushed but bigger ones are motorised. These floats are absolutely amazing. I can see one that is decorated as a huge lion’s head. The floats are carrying special guests and dancers, all of them in extravagant costumes. The costumes in the parade are really colourful and incredibly well-decorated. Materials such as feathers, sequins and crystals are used and, unbelievably, they are all handmade.

When each year’s carnival finishes, people immediately start getting ready for the next. The preparations are all-year-round and that’s the case for the floats, the dancers and the bands, too. They have to rehearse for months, working with each other to perfect their timing and to build up their fitness. Everyone’s dancing, singing and for those who are beginning to get a little tired, there are refreshments like hot dogs, ice cream and soft drinks. And let me assure you, even a spectator has to keep their energy up if they want to enjoy this non-stop all-singing, all-dancing festival.

1.4.      The floats ______.

A Live Commentary of a Festival

Good evening and welcome to A World of Festivals. I’m Bob Peters and I’m here in Rio de Janeiro at the Sambadrome for the true highlight of the Rio Carnival, the Rio Samba Parade – the climax to this famous celebration. The atmosphere is electric here. I don’t know if I can find the words to describe it, but I’m certainly going to try for all you listeners at home.

Let’s start with a little bit of history. The Rio Samba parade actually began in local neighbourhoods with people singing and dancing on the streets. It soon turned into a competition for samba schools. It got so big that it moved off the streets in the 1980s and into the Sambadrome, a 700-metre-long stadium which can hold over 70,000 spectators. There are other carnival parades all over Rio just as there have been since the Rio Carnival started just under 300 years ago, but this parade is the big one.

Over two nights, from sunset until sunrise, samba schools compete against each other in this packed stadium and to a huge national and international television audience. These are the images of the Rio Carnival that everyone is most familiar with. I’m here on the first night of this parade, and let me tell you, looking at the standard of dancing the judges are going to have a tough time deciding who the best dancers are.

The parade so far has been choreographed to perfection, but then it has to be when there are between 3,000 and 5,000 dancers in each samba school. Each school is made up of dancers from a particular community in Rio and every dancer has a specific role to perform. Right now, for example, there’s the couple who carry a flag belonging to the school dancing at the front of this parade. They’re holding up the school’s flag. And here come the Whirling Ladies. They spin around and around and are usually the dancers with the most experience. It might look easy, but trust me, it’s not. It takes a lot of skill to keep spinning round like that for about an hour and not fall down. It’s making me feel dizzy just watching them. Coming up now is a group of about 300 drummers and in front of them is a young woman wearing an impressive costume and an elaborate headdress decorated with what looks like jewels. She’s the Queen of the Drummers and she leads the dancing to the drummers’ rhythm. It’s her job to inspire all the dancers so she needs plenty of energy and enthusiasm.

I’ve got to say a few words about the floats that we have here in the stadium, some of which are as big as a three-storey building. Some of the smaller ones are being pushed but bigger ones are motorised. These floats are absolutely amazing. I can see one that is decorated as a huge lion’s head. The floats are carrying special guests and dancers, all of them in extravagant costumes. The costumes in the parade are really colourful and incredibly well-decorated. Materials such as feathers, sequins and crystals are used and, unbelievably, they are all handmade.

When each year’s carnival finishes, people immediately start getting ready for the next. The preparations are all-year-round and that’s the case for the floats, the dancers and the bands, too. They have to rehearse for months, working with each other to perfect their timing and to build up their fitness. Everyone’s dancing, singing and for those who are beginning to get a little tired, there are refreshments like hot dogs, ice cream and soft drinks. And let me assure you, even a spectator has to keep their energy up if they want to enjoy this non-stop all-singing, all-dancing festival.

1.5.  Spectators have to ____.

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Roughly 1 in 10 children who play video games are at risk of becoming pathologically addicted to them, found a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.

That means for every classroom of 30 kids, three of them could develop a hardcore digital addiction that boosts the risk of depression, social phobia and poor school performance, the study found.

Over a two-year span, researchers from the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore studied the video game habits of 3,000 Singaporean children from grades 3,4,7 and 8. Kids who averaged 31 or more hours of gameplay a week were classified as pathological or 'obsessive' gamers and were determined more likely to develop serious mental health issues.

Inclined to believe video game addiction is just a passing phase? WebMD reports that 84 percent of students who were considered addicts when the study began were still addicted two years later.

Still, such findings are preliminary. U.S. News reports: Although pathological video gaming appears to share a number of characteristics with other addictive behaviors, such as pathological gambling, the researchers noted that 'pathological gaming' is not yet an established psychological disorder. 

2.1. Which is mentioned as a potential risk of digital addiction?

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Roughly 1 in 10 children who play video games are at risk of becoming pathologically addicted to them, found a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.

That means for every classroom of 30 kids, three of them could develop a hardcore digital addiction that boosts the risk of depression, social phobia and poor school performance, the study found.

Over a two-year span, researchers from the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore studied the video game habits of 3,000 Singaporean children from grades 3,4,7 and 8. Kids who averaged 31 or more hours of gameplay a week were classified as pathological or 'obsessive' gamers and were determined more likely to develop serious mental health issues.

Inclined to believe video game addiction is just a passing phase? WebMD reports that 84 percent of students who were considered addicts when the study began were still addicted two years later.

Still, such findings are preliminary. U.S. News reports: Although pathological video gaming appears to share a number of characteristics with other addictive behaviors, such as pathological gambling, the researchers noted that 'pathological gaming' is not yet an established psychological disorder. 

2.2. 1.         According to the study, children playing more than 30 hours of video games a week are more vulnerable to _______.

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Roughly 1 in 10 children who play video games are at risk of becoming pathologically addicted to them, found a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.

That means for every classroom of 30 kids, three of them could develop a hardcore digital addiction that boosts the risk of depression, social phobia and poor school performance, the study found.

Over a two-year span, researchers from the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore studied the video game habits of 3,000 Singaporean children from grades 3,4,7 and 8. Kids who averaged 31 or more hours of gameplay a week were classified as pathological or 'obsessive' gamers and were determined more likely to develop serious mental health issues.

Inclined to believe video game addiction is just a passing phase? WebMD reports that 84 percent of students who were considered addicts when the study began were still addicted two years later.

Still, such findings are preliminary. U.S. News reports: Although pathological video gaming appears to share a number of characteristics with other addictive behaviors, such as pathological gambling, the researchers noted that 'pathological gaming' is not yet an established psychological disorder. 

2.3. 1.  A 'passing phase' implies ______.

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Roughly 1 in 10 children who play video games are at risk of becoming pathologically addicted to them, found a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.

That means for every classroom of 30 kids, three of them could develop a hardcore digital addiction that boosts the risk of depression, social phobia and poor school performance, the study found.

Over a two-year span, researchers from the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore studied the video game habits of 3,000 Singaporean children from grades 3,4,7 and 8. Kids who averaged 31 or more hours of gameplay a week were classified as pathological or 'obsessive' gamers and were determined more likely to develop serious mental health issues.

Inclined to believe video game addiction is just a passing phase? WebMD reports that 84 percent of students who were considered addicts when the study began were still addicted two years later.

Still, such findings are preliminary. U.S. News reports: Although pathological video gaming appears to share a number of characteristics with other addictive behaviors, such as pathological gambling, the researchers noted that 'pathological gaming' is not yet an established psychological disorder. 

2.4.  According to the article, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT _______.

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A Journey for Charity

A British man, Stuart McCoy, has just returned to Britain after cycling over 3500 km for charity. His journey took him from London to Athens via Paris, Munich, Vienna, and Belgrade. I interviewed him yesterday.

What made Stuart embark on such a long and arduous journey? “Well, I’m a student,” he said. “I had nothing to do in the summer vacation, and badly needed exercise, but I also wanted to do something for others, and that’s really what made me do it.”

He first thought of raising money for an animal charity. Then, after watching a TV program, he decided half of the money would go to a children’s charity. ”But halfway through my journey, there was a terrible earthquake in China, and I immediately decided it would all go to Chinese earthquake victims.”

How much did he raise? “Friends and relatives donated about 1000 pounds in all, and while I was travelling, generous people gave me another 500 pounds. But half of my total amount came from my university, which promised to double what I raised myself.” So, in total, 3000 pounds – not bad for four weeks cycling.

Not bad at all. So, did Stuart cycle back to London too? “Of course, I did,” he laughed. “No, I gave my bicycle to a children’s charity in Greece and came back by train. My dad offered to buy me an air ticket, but I also believe in ‘green’ transport so I decided against flying.”

And Stuart’s next journey? He smiled, “Well, I suppose, it’s possible.”

Would he get a better bike or do it in a cooler season – spring, for example?

“Well, my bike is fantastic, and I’m only free in the summer, but I think I’d rather not go on my own next time.”

3.1. What was Stuart’s main reason for going on a journey?

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A Journey for Charity

A British man, Stuart McCoy, has just returned to Britain after cycling over 3500 km for charity. His journey took him from London to Athens via Paris, Munich, Vienna, and Belgrade. I interviewed him yesterday.

What made Stuart embark on such a long and arduous journey? “Well, I’m a student,” he said. “I had nothing to do in the summer vacation, and badly needed exercise, but I also wanted to do something for others, and that’s really what made me do it.”

He first thought of raising money for an animal charity. Then, after watching a TV program, he decided half of the money would go to a children’s charity. ”But halfway through my journey, there was a terrible earthquake in China, and I immediately decided it would all go to Chinese earthquake victims.”

How much did he raise? “Friends and relatives donated about 1000 pounds in all, and while I was travelling, generous people gave me another 500 pounds. But half of my total amount came from my university, which promised to double what I raised myself.” So, in total, 3000 pounds – not bad for four weeks cycling.

Not bad at all. So, did Stuart cycle back to London too? “Of course, I did,” he laughed. “No, I gave my bicycle to a children’s charity in Greece and came back by train. My dad offered to buy me an air ticket, but I also believe in ‘green’ transport so I decided against flying.”

And Stuart’s next journey? He smiled, “Well, I suppose, it’s possible.”

Would he get a better bike or do it in a cooler season – spring, for example?

“Well, my bike is fantastic, and I’m only free in the summer, but I think I’d rather not go on my own next time.”

3.2.         When did Stuart finally decide which charity to give money to?

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A Journey for Charity

A British man, Stuart McCoy, has just returned to Britain after cycling over 3500 km for charity. His journey took him from London to Athens via Paris, Munich, Vienna, and Belgrade. I interviewed him yesterday.

What made Stuart embark on such a long and arduous journey? “Well, I’m a student,” he said. “I had nothing to do in the summer vacation, and badly needed exercise, but I also wanted to do something for others, and that’s really what made me do it.”

He first thought of raising money for an animal charity. Then, after watching a TV program, he decided half of the money would go to a children’s charity. ”But halfway through my journey, there was a terrible earthquake in China, and I immediately decided it would all go to Chinese earthquake victims.”

How much did he raise? “Friends and relatives donated about 1000 pounds in all, and while I was travelling, generous people gave me another 500 pounds. But half of my total amount came from my university, which promised to double what I raised myself.” So, in total, 3000 pounds – not bad for four weeks cycling.

Not bad at all. So, did Stuart cycle back to London too? “Of course, I did,” he laughed. “No, I gave my bicycle to a children’s charity in Greece and came back by train. My dad offered to buy me an air ticket, but I also believe in ‘green’ transport so I decided against flying.”

And Stuart’s next journey? He smiled, “Well, I suppose, it’s possible.”

Would he get a better bike or do it in a cooler season – spring, for example?

“Well, my bike is fantastic, and I’m only free in the summer, but I think I’d rather not go on my own next time.”

3.3. Who was the most generous with donations?

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A Journey for Charity

A British man, Stuart McCoy, has just returned to Britain after cycling over 3500 km for charity. His journey took him from London to Athens via Paris, Munich, Vienna, and Belgrade. I interviewed him yesterday.

What made Stuart embark on such a long and arduous journey? “Well, I’m a student,” he said. “I had nothing to do in the summer vacation, and badly needed exercise, but I also wanted to do something for others, and that’s really what made me do it.”

He first thought of raising money for an animal charity. Then, after watching a TV program, he decided half of the money would go to a children’s charity. ”But halfway through my journey, there was a terrible earthquake in China, and I immediately decided it would all go to Chinese earthquake victims.”

How much did he raise? “Friends and relatives donated about 1000 pounds in all, and while I was travelling, generous people gave me another 500 pounds. But half of my total amount came from my university, which promised to double what I raised myself.” So, in total, 3000 pounds – not bad for four weeks cycling.

Not bad at all. So, did Stuart cycle back to London too? “Of course, I did,” he laughed. “No, I gave my bicycle to a children’s charity in Greece and came back by train. My dad offered to buy me an air ticket, but I also believe in ‘green’ transport so I decided against flying.”

And Stuart’s next journey? He smiled, “Well, I suppose, it’s possible.”

Would he get a better bike or do it in a cooler season – spring, for example?

“Well, my bike is fantastic, and I’m only free in the summer, but I think I’d rather not go on my own next time.”

3.4.  How did Stuart return home?

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A Journey for Charity

A British man, Stuart McCoy, has just returned to Britain after cycling over 3500 km for charity. His journey took him from London to Athens via Paris, Munich, Vienna, and Belgrade. I interviewed him yesterday.

What made Stuart embark on such a long and arduous journey? “Well, I’m a student,” he said. “I had nothing to do in the summer vacation, and badly needed exercise, but I also wanted to do something for others, and that’s really what made me do it.”

He first thought of raising money for an animal charity. Then, after watching a TV program, he decided half of the money would go to a children’s charity. ”But halfway through my journey, there was a terrible earthquake in China, and I immediately decided it would all go to Chinese earthquake victims.”

How much did he raise? “Friends and relatives donated about 1000 pounds in all, and while I was travelling, generous people gave me another 500 pounds. But half of my total amount came from my university, which promised to double what I raised myself.” So, in total, 3000 pounds – not bad for four weeks cycling.

Not bad at all. So, did Stuart cycle back to London too? “Of course, I did,” he laughed. “No, I gave my bicycle to a children’s charity in Greece and came back by train. My dad offered to buy me an air ticket, but I also believe in ‘green’ transport so I decided against flying.”

And Stuart’s next journey? He smiled, “Well, I suppose, it’s possible.”

Would he get a better bike or do it in a cooler season – spring, for example?

“Well, my bike is fantastic, and I’m only free in the summer, but I think I’d rather not go on my own next time.”

4.5.. What would Stuart do if he did a similar journey in the future?