Simon Alderson

Staples 2 Naples 2012

Fundraising for Alzheimer's Society
£1,887
raised of £1,500 target
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Participants: Rupert Basham
Alzheimer's Society

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We provide help and hope to everyone living with dementia.

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Simon and Rupert are driving 1500 miles across Europe this summer in a clapped out banger worth less than £250 and around 15 years old, to raise money for Alzheimer's Society. Our route takes us through three countries (possibly six if we make some fundamental map-reading errors), one mountain range and several inevitable encounters with a smoking engine.

Armed with our Auto Repair for Dummies (not actually joking, they do make it and we have got it) and starting in Calais on Friday 24 August, we drive through the Swiss Alps where, after 500 odd miles, 100 teams descend upon the small town of Sarnen.

The following morning we leave the scenic lakes and delve deeper into the mountains meandering through to Aprica, Italy - a 250 mile hair-raising drive along cliff-edge drops in a car with questionable brakes and a dodgy gearbox.

From Aprica - assuming we make it - day three sees us traverse through Italy, passing through Verona, Bologna, Florence and finally to Viterbo where we prepare for our final push on to Naples.

Our last day - with just under 200 miles left to endure the horrors of our banger - will take us around Rome, and through to the heart of Southern Italy.

Arriving in Naples on Monday, we shall celebrate like kings before pushing our car to its watery grave off the Amalfi coast, never to be seen again. God bless its rusting, dented soul.

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Alzheimer's Society

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At Alzheimer’s Society we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. We do this by giving help to those living with dementia today, and providing hope for the future by campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be and funding groundbreaking research.

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