Man Quits Job to Write 'Stop Brexit' With His Europe Trip | Time
Meet the man writing 'Stop Brexit' across Europe with a van and GPS tracker | Latest Brexit news and top stories - The New European
As reported in today's Mail:
Remain supporter gives up his job to spell out 'Stop Brexit' with GPS | Daily Mail Online
And as reported on Devon Live today:
Devon man spells HUGE 'Stop Brexit' GPS message in 22,000-mile European road trip
Andy Pardy, 28, from Exeter made the epic Euro tour to 'make a statement' about the 'privilege' of free movement
Joel Cooper Chief Reporter
21 NOV 2018
A Devon campaigner quit his job to take a 22,000-mile road trip around Europe - spelling out the words STOP BREXIT in GPS.
Andy Pardy, 28, from Exeter made the epic Euro tour to 'make a statement' about the 'privilege' of free movement around the continent. The digital consultant started the monster road trip with his girlfriend Katy in Scotland in July and finished 22,000 miles later near Minsk in Belarus. The route took them through France, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Findland, the Baltics states, Poland, Romania and Croatia, among other countries. They finished in Bilbao, northern Spain, at the end of October after completing the 'B' for Brexit on the Iberian Peninsula.
After quitting his job for the project, he splashed £6,000 on the VW Transporter van in which he completed the journey and the couple have spent around £5,000 during the trip.
But Andy insists it was worth it to make the statement. He told the Daily Mail: "The right to explore as well as live and work abroad, without tiresome red tape, is an immense privilege.
Joel Cooper Chief Reporter
21 NOV 2018
A Devon campaigner quit his job to take a 22,000-mile road trip around Europe - spelling out the words STOP BREXIT in GPS.
Andy Pardy, 28, from Exeter made the epic Euro tour to 'make a statement' about the 'privilege' of free movement around the continent. The digital consultant started the monster road trip with his girlfriend Katy in Scotland in July and finished 22,000 miles later near Minsk in Belarus. The route took them through France, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Findland, the Baltics states, Poland, Romania and Croatia, among other countries. They finished in Bilbao, northern Spain, at the end of October after completing the 'B' for Brexit on the Iberian Peninsula.
After quitting his job for the project, he splashed £6,000 on the VW Transporter van in which he completed the journey and the couple have spent around £5,000 during the trip.
But Andy insists it was worth it to make the statement. He told the Daily Mail: "The right to explore as well as live and work abroad, without tiresome red tape, is an immense privilege.
Andy in Alesund on the west coast of Norway (@therogueconsultant)
"As it stands, the ability to freely access and roam our fellow EU member states makes us incredibly fortunate. For me, this adventure has highlighted what is at stake. "EU authorities have already said that British citizens will be placed on a 'visa-free' list, even in the event of a no-deal Brexit."
It means that Britons will still be able to travel to the EU's 27 other member states, although how long they are allowed to stay could be limited. A Brexit deal further could increase Britons' rights to travel to the continent.
An EU statement says: '[Britons] can come as a tourist, to visit friends or family, to attend cultural or sports events or exchanges, business meetings, for journalistic or media purposes, medical treatment, for short-term studies or training and any similar activities. However, the visa waiver does not apply to persons travelling for the purpose of carrying out a paid activity in the Member States, i.e. for those who come to work in the EU.'
Quick photo at the finish line for the letter T, Snåsa - roughly 1/3 of the way up the Norwegian coastline. The combined distance to get here was circa 3500 km including the journey from London and circling back via Geirangerfjord #StopBrexit
A post shared by The Rogue Consultant (@therogueconsultant) on Jul 31, 2018 at 1:19pm PDT
A post shared by The Rogue Consultant (@therogueconsultant) on Jul 31, 2018 at 1:19pm PDT
Andy is documenting his journey on Instagram. You can follow along with him here.
How Andy spelled out each letter of his message
S: Starting in Loch Lomond, Scotland, Mr Pardy crossed the Irish Sea to Ireland, before crossing back to Wales then down to Cornwall.
T: Starting in Gothenburg, Sweden, he drove north Alesund in Norway, then back to Snasa.
O: He circled around into Sweden after starting in the Namsskogan area of Norway.
P: Starting in Narvik, Norway, he drove north, then down into Finland before returning, through Sweden, to his starting point.
B: This was the last leg of his tour, starting in Bilbao in northern Spain, he drove along the north coast, then down through Portugal, along the south coast of Spain and back to Bilbao through Madrid.
R: This was completed in France, starting in the foothills of the Alps, west to Bordeaux, then a large loop up through Paris and back down to Andorra on the Spanish border.
E: Starting in Austria, he drove west to southern France then north to Luxembourg and east to Nuremburg. The top of the letter was made by a trip from Hamburg, Germany to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
X: This was made by two trips. One from Poland to the Croatian coast, the second from Albania, through the Balkans and the Czech Republic to Berlin.
I: This was made by driving in the circle around Poland, before coming south to Romania, through Slovakia and Hungary.
T: The T was drawn in the Baltic states and Belarus, starting in Estonia, going south through Latvia and Lithuania, before doubling back and south towards Minsk.
Devon man spells HUGE 'Stop Brexit' GPS message in 22,000-mile European road trip - Devon Live
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