Adrian Tierney-Jones cheers on the leading lights of a great adventure – crossing Britain in solar-powered wheelchairs
The SolaRola Adventure is a rally with a difference. There are no souped-up Skodas, no over-revved Renaults with screaming engines and screeching brakes. This rally will pass silently through sun-dappled woods, fields serenaded by larks, quiet leafy bridle paths and country lanes.
‘This event is about showing that we are active and that we are thinking about the planet’
It will head peacefully through small sleepy villages such as St Mary Bourne and West Chisenbury on its route from central London to the West Country. The only sound you’ll hear, apart from the birdsong and the rustle of leaves, is the occasional laughter and quiet conversation of the drivers. Drivers such as Annie Maw, who is quite literally running on sunshine.
‘This event is about showing that we are active and that we are thinking about the planet’