World First Supporting Adventurer Who Hopes to Avoid Being Short-Changed

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World First Supporting Adventurer Who Hopes

to Avoid Being Short-Changed

PR Newswire

LONDON, July 5, 2012

LONDON

,

July 5, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

He's already conquered the sea as the youngest ever person to sail around the

world when he was still a schoolboy in 2009. Now adventurer Mike Perham, 20,

is embarking on the road trip to end all road trips, having set off to

circumnavigate the globe from Prime Meridian Walk in

East London

on a soggy,

grey July morning in the capital.

Mike's route will take him from the UK, through

Europe

, to

Russia

,

China

,

Laos

,

Singapore

,

Australia

,

New Zealand

, and across the US before returning home

having negotiated some 23,000 miles of road. He hopes to have raised at least

£1 per mile for the international aid relief charity, Shelterbox, by the journey's

end.

World First, who are sponsoring Mike's trip as well as managing all of his foreign

exchange, were on hand to present him with an honorary World First 'hoody'

and to set him off on a 'currency challenge'.

Mike will start with £100 and exchange it at the local bureau de change at each

border crossing. The question is how many countries will it take before the

£100 is reduced to nil, because of the poor exchange rates and fees you get hit

with when changing up your currency in this way?

Karen Eisen, Marketing Director at World First, said:

"At World First we love to support any

world firsts

and we're delighted to be

supporting mike on his epic journey around the world. It will be really

interesting to see how quickly the £100 disappears as he changes it up from

country to country.

"People don't realise just how short-changed they are by using the local bureau

de change, and hopefully this experiment will help to demonstrate why people

really should be looking for a fairer exchange when it comes to currency

transfers."

Mike will be blogging and posting on World First Facebook

page

throughout his trip. Keep up to date with his journey by

following his tweets

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http://www.worldfirst.com