A North Somerset man's not taking things easy in his retirement - as he cycles 70 miles a day across half of Europe for about a month with a 40 kilo bag.

68 year old Alan Blythe and friend Martin are going from Gibraltar - at the southern tip of Spain - back to his home town of Wedmore.

Alan spoke to Nova News this afternoon from just outside Bordeaux in south-west France, about two-thirds of the way through his bid to raise money for Cancer Research UK, having lost his first wife to the disease:

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