TWO Brits have undertaken a gruelling problem to hitchhike from Asia to the UK in an effort to lift cash for charity – and with no price range.

Kieran Brown from Sidcup, Kent and Joe Martin, from Derby, Derbyshire solely met 4 months in the past throughout their separate travels round Nepal.

Nonetheless the 2 immediately struck up a friendship due to their love of travelling – with each having visited over 40 nations every.

Kieran, 28, and Joe, 25, have since determined to place their newfound friendship and fondness for country-hopping to the take a look at in an effort to lift cash for homeless charities throughout Europe.

The 2 males are on a 3,000km journey from Istanbul, Turkey to London, in a zero-budget journey that sees them rely solely on the kindness of strangers for transport, lodging and even meals.

The pair are presently 14 days into their problem, and have arrived in Cologne, Germany – with over 500km nonetheless to go.

Regardless of this, the pair have already smashed their minimal fundraising goal objective, with their GoFundMe web page presently sitting at £2,178 on the time of writing.

Kieran has additionally been importing every day’s journey to TikTok the place he paperwork how they’ve progressed – with followers fast to lend their assist and amazement on the duo’s efforts.

One person wrote: “Folks will be so type.”

One other commented: “The additional west you go, the more durable the problem turn out to be.”

One other wrote: “Think about attempting to do that as a girl.”

Talking at present bartender Kieran stated: “Joe Martin and I’ve travelled extensively and needed one thing to problem us and get us out of our consolation zone.

“Joe posted the problem on his Instagram story asking if anybody was inquisitive about doing this and I used to be the one silly individual to comply with it.

“We wish to spotlight human kindness and present that nations which can be generally portrayed as ‘harmful’ are stuffed with type and real individuals who will exit of their means to assist.

“We didn’t plan something for the journey or a particular route, we even didn’t purchase sleeping baggage till the day earlier than the problem began while in Istanbul.

“The one factor we had was the start line which was on the Asian facet of Istanbul – with hitchhiking you possibly can by no means plan any route. So long as it’s within the route of west, we have now been taking it.

“It’s given us the chance to go to cities and cities off the crushed monitor within the nations that we have now handed by that we might not have normally visited.”

Kieran continued, explaining the difficulties confronted the longer the journey goes on: “As for the way it’s going, it’s superb up to now.

“On the primary day we managed to get all the way in which from the Asian facet of Istanbul to the border of Turkey and Bulgaria, we additionally received featured on BBC Information.

“The previous couple of days have been powerful and the nearer to residence we’re getting, the more durable it’s to get folks to choose us up.

“Each day there was highs and lows and generally once we really feel at breaking level one thing or somebody constructive comes our means which simply exhibits that kindness is in every single place.

“Now we have been blown away by how good folks will be.

“Folks that have by no means met us and owe us nothing have gone out of their method to home and feed us though some days we have now needed to spend the night time tough and hungry.

“For sleeping we have now used the app Sofa Browsing a number of instances, they’ll record a room of their home on the app and you may keep without cost and simply trade convos about tradition and varied issues.

“When we have now stayed, they’re conscious of the problem and have normally made us one thing to eat and provides us a bag of stuff akin to cereal and protein bars which we have now rationed.

“Some days we have now gone prolonged durations of time with out meals and have relied on blackberry bushes and plum bushes, a number of of the nights we have now slept tough.

“We haven’t felt like we have now been at risk in any respect. Sleeping tough at all times has its dangers however we attempt to discover secluded areas away from cities.

“Everybody who has picked us up has been beautiful and most have provided us food and drinks.

“[We slept] One night time in an deserted constructing in Haskovo, Bulgaria and below a bridge in Belgrade in Serbia.a

“Folks have reached out through Instagram or TikTok to assist us too, however as a part of the principles, we will solely settle for assist from folks we haven’t beforehand met in actual life.”

Kieran defined: “We’re presently on day 14 and are in Cologne in Germany.

“As for the language barrier, we have now been utilizing Google Translate however after we reached Croatia, everybody has spoken English.

“We’d hope to be again in London ideally earlier than my birthday on 26 August nevertheless it’s been further powerful the previous few days.

“I believe with the ability to hitchhike over the channel, whether or not it’s on the prepare or the boat, goes to be the hardest half.

“We select homeless charities in Europe as a result of it is smart. We’re homeless and hungry if folks aren’t keen to assist us.

“The journey has highlighted how powerful it’s for folks much less lucky and has made us each extra compassionate in direction of homeless folks and will likely be making extra of an effort to assist and feed them.

“We plan to separate the ultimate donation about between the nations we find yourself passing by, it is going to be the ultimate quantity cut up 9 methods, one homeless charity per nation.”

To donate to the pair’s trigger, please go to the GoFundMe web page: https://gofund.me/1144cbc4