This charity event is seriously the bee’s knees.
An annual fundraiser for Amnesty International and St Vincent de Paul, Jailbreak initiates teams — over 100 pairs this year — to get as far away from Dublin, Ireland in 36 hours, without spending a single cent of their own money.
To win, you basically have to get people to fund your travels or ‘hitchhike’, to describe it loosely, so that when the time is up, you’ve distanced yourself as much as possible from the starting point.
Coming in fourth this year are Finn and Lulu from Trinity College — which single-handedly raised €17,000 in 2013’s challenge — who at the end of the challenge were at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
That’s 11,216 km from their starting point in nine hours 46 minutes.
Winning team Kyryll and Salim made it to Sydney in nine hours 14 minutes.
According to their Facebook page, Finn and Lulu got by on their journey with sponsorship by The Jelly Bean Factory, but other teams have used more dramatic measures to pay for their flights out and back home.
Last year, the winning Trinity College team made it to Miramar, Argentina and convinced singer Chris de Burgh to pay for their return trip.
