Man completes odyssey through every European capital - without spending a penny

A traveller has completed a tour of 26 European capitals without as much as a penny in his pocket - and in the process raised £1,600 for cancer patients.

Kris Mole relied on nothing but the milk of human kindness in his quest to visit the cities without paying. The 24-year-old spent 165 days being thrown off trains for having no ticket, begging lifts from passing motorists, hiking alongside motorways and living rough.



He set out on his 9,763-mile odyssey to raise money for Cancer Research UK after his aunt, Susan Proto, 56, was admitted to hospital with the illness.

She died a week into his travels, making Mr Mole, of Southwick, West Sussex, all the more determined to achieve his goal.