Introducing Our Big Adventure

The time has finally come to reveal this year's big adventure to you. We've dropped a few hints over recent months that something big was in the offing - for example, us practising our Spanish in Menorca - but we haven't given too much away so far.

We can't leave you in suspense any longer as departure day is only some 10 days away. So where are we going and who's going?

Bears Unlimited is proud to be sponsoring me (George), Yorkie and Gio to walk the Camino de Santiago from Le Puy in France to Santiago in Spain. As we have generously been given 12 weeks off work, us 3 lucky bears, along with 2 minders, get to walk 736km of the Le Puy route to the Pyrenees before crossing into Spain and walking the 778 km of the traditional route, the Camino Frances, between St Jean Pied de Port and Santiago.

What an adventure! We can hardly contain our excitement. Yorkie and I are naturally going as we are the travelling bears, and Gio, being a Franciscan, is coming as our pilgrimage leader. If you recall, he came to us from Hillfield Friary.

Training for this marathon walk has been going on for quite a few months.


Here you see Personal Trainer Chelmer and his brother Curly, putting Gio through his paces. Yorkie and I should have been there too but we'd overslept that morning and missed the session.

When we saw the pictures, we thought it looked as if they'd had a lot of fun as Chelmer had designed a great assault course and he had a lot of really unusual tree shapes to work with. See what we mean?


Believe us, we might have missed this session, but Chelmer ensured we made up for it later.

Lots of love George, Yorkie & Gio xxx