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Walking around the world in six years. That means 25.000 miles (40.000 km) on five continents: Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia and Asia. Two brothers—Ferenc and István Ivanics—walk 15-25 miles a day to reach their goal: to arrive home. T
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Please Donate
During the last four months the reserves of István and Ferenc have been going slowly downslope. There are still no sponsors to help them out this time. We ask you again: please, if you can, help them go on by donating some money through PayPal.Of co...
Walk-a-ton
by FERENC IVANICSIstván “eats” the heel of his shoes in a relatively short time. The black rubber cover has been almost worn off of his pair. We don’t have enough money to buy new shoes, and it’s been too little time for a new pair. We bough...
Economic Diet in Mexico
by FERENC IVANICSWe still have some money, but sometimes it occurs to us that we’ll be broke again... So, we try to find the cheapest way to eat. To eat economically we chose street-food or eat in roadside diners. Usually we have tacos and coated e...
A Quick Step From Houston to Laredo
It was a close call, Ferenc and István had to leave the United States by the 17th of August, but they didn’t want to jump into some suicide mission without resources and a proper gear. They made it, but not without the help of others. Many individ...
Houston Media Update
Since our last media update we’ve received news about various press appearances of the WorldWalk brothers. Though you have a list of these articles on the WorldWalk-Peacetour website, from time to time we give you an update of the media interest.Ca...
The Kindness of Strangers
A fragment from a letter of Ferenc:Ouch! I have to write... I don’t feel like it at all. After our daily twenty-something miles I hardly have the strength to put up the tent. And after that I just hit the tent’s floor like a sack of potatoes. Nig...
The Last Straw
Due to regulations Ferenc and István have to cover the U.S.A stage in 90 days. They need to walk 25-30 miles a day to achieve that goal. Sometimes in thunderstorms, heat, suffocating moisture. This is a lot. A lot, but it’s not impossible. Achieva...
Religious Shelters
Sanctuary has multiple meanings. A sanctuary is the consecrated area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar. An animal sanctuary is a place where animals live and are protected. In modern parlance the term is used to mean a place of saf...
Through the USA in Ninety Days
Currently the WorldWalk team prepare themselves for the USA stage of the tour. It seems that before the boys move on to conquer a new continent they need a few months to get ready. They need to put up the budget of the next stage, to upgrade and rene...
Professor Ivanics
“...the term professor generally is used as a form of address for any lecturer or researcher employed by a college or university...” (Wikipedia)Though the Ivanics brothers have become more and more well-known and well-received, no one expected th...
Funding: More Alternatives
Funding the project has always been a major challenge for the WorldWalk-Peacetour team. Though there have been plenty of ideas, at the end it came to begging—directly or indirectly—or doing odd jobs. That’s about it. The Ivanics brothers cannot...
16 Tons With a View
Job hunting or job seeking is the act of looking for employment, due to unemployment or discontent with a current position. The immediate goal of job seeking is usually to obtain a job interview with an employer which may lead to getting hired. (Wiki...
Shower in the Church
Camping in the wild. PRO: its most obvious advantage is its price: it’s free. CON: one have to suffer all the disadvantages it’s bundled with. For one: you don’t have hygiene facilities, when you camp in the wild you have to come up with someth...
Exclusive Beggars
Due to the global financial and economic crisis the brothers haven’t managed to find a temporary job in Málaga so far. They are not alone, hundreds try to find a job there with even less hope. So their only chance is begging.And Ferenc and István...
Gear: What You Need to Walk Around the Earth
Walking and backpacking around the Earth is an extremely strong load test on your gear. But you have a real chance to prove its quality or its flaws: The brothers walked and put up their tents in France in frost, in the Sahara in 100 °F, they were h...
Sponsors and Support
The WorldWalk-Peacetour project started as a low budget experiment but quickly turned into a no-budget enterprise. However this wasn't the intention of Ferenc and István, the walking brothers. The project gained some media attention in Hungary and S...
Back in Spain: In a Difficult Situation
When István and Ferenc arrived in Dakar and met their goal by walking through the Sahara desert and arriving to the westernmost point of mainland Africa it was obvious that there was a problem. How to cross the Atlantic Ocean, how to follow the peac...
