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FREE-BOARDER

Money money money. Why haven’t we got any? Well, perhaps we’ve got the right idea and it’s everyone one else that needs to change. That’s the idea behind the Freeconomy website which allows people to sign up and trade skills and labour without any lucre in sight.

To spread the word further (and without paying for any advertising naturally), the site’s founder, a guy called Saoirse, is walking from Bristol to India without using any cash, relying on the generosity of people he meets along the way.

After a tough time crossing the prosperous home counties, things have apparently improved for him since passing though ever-friendly Brighton in the last couple of days. He is due to be in Dover on Saturday before crossing the channel and heading east... To find out more about the freeconomy, read his travel blog, or contact him to meet up on his pilgrimage, see www.justfortheloveofit.org

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