Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder.

It's Thursday the 21st of August and I find myself in Colbytec, Cumbria, with Paul Goldstein.

You might remember a few weeks ago I talked to him on the podcast about his ridiculous plan to walk from Tigerton in northeast Scotland to Tiger Bay in Cardi. And Paul,

you've done 10 marathons so far? Yeah, this is day 10. And I'd like to say that I haven't been

impatient, irascible, irritable, angry, frustrated, shouty, sweary.

But I have been all of the above, not every hour, but it's coincided with the hottest

spells Scotland's ever had and it has been enormously uplifting and tremendously challenging.

But fortunately it's for a cause that I really believe in.

I've had a fantastic team behind me and almost, I'd say, overwhelming support along the way

and in terms of donations as well.

So far, so good, but, you know, one swallow doesn't make a summer, a long way from South Wales.

So two legs for four, that's the charity.

Tell me about it.

Well, it shouldn't, yeah, I have worn this Bengal tiger on my back for 25 running

marathon's over the last 15 years. And I should point out that this is a model of a Bengal

tiger, which looks as though it's actually pretty heavy, 20 kilograms. No, it's not as much

as that. It's just awkward. And particularly when you're walking through paths that haven't been really tended for what appears like many years. So there's plenty

of obstruction. It doesn't like the wind. But it's not just about Bengal tigers, although they

do sit sadly, firmly in the endangered list. For anyone can join can do it for any four-legged

animal. Any four-legged animal they feel strongly about, whether it

is a shy horse, whether it's a indeed a Bengal tiger, a snow leopard, a pangolin, a black rhino,

anything. It's about awareness. It's about being angry about it and it's about raising money too.

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