Originally Posted by
LowNSlow
In the interview on the BBC he said that Ireland was the most welcoming country. How did he end up there?
He traveled by aeroplane.
He wanted to tick another continent off his list so he routed Iceland - Benbecula - Donegal - Cork and then went south via Spain and Gibraltar to Marocco. He had to do a couple of extra miles in the USA to get up to the minimum distance needed to claim the round-the-world record, perhaps he came up short and needed these legs to make up for that.
Edit: I see he ended up flying over 24,900 miles so I guess he wanted to not only exceed the distance of the tropic of cancer but that of the equator as well.