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Johnny Ward is one difficult fella to pin down, not least because he can’t stay in one place for very long. After all, this is the man who has made a name not to mention a hugely lucrative travel blogging business for himself as being the only Irishman to have travelled to every country in the world. It takes three attempts to get chatting to him from where he is currently in Antigua but he’s got a good excuse for having to postpone the call. Johnny Ward has been desperately trying to book ...

BBC News Atlantic row ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ Close Johnny Ward is part of a four-man rowing team that has crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a single boat. The travel blogger is originally from Kilkeel in County Down and took on the challenge to raise awareness about mental health. The trip - dubbed The Atlantic Dash - was a 3,200 mile journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua. Johnnys crewmates were Billy Taylor, Martin Heseltine and BBC TV chef Dirty Vegan Matt Pritchard. Th...

A HEREFORDSHIRE man is celebrating reaching dry land after rowing more than 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Martin Heseltine, 62, from Walford, near Ross-on-Wye, has spent the last 50 days all at sea as part of a four-man vegan crew rowing from Lanzarote to Antigua to raise money for mens mental health charity Humen and Chepstow animal sanctuary, the Dean Farm Trust. Not an adventure to be taken lightly, Martin and the crew rowed non-stop in alternating two-hour shifts, using muscle powe...

Atlantic Dash rowers culminate 50-day row in Antigua Visitor numbers may be trending down a slippery slope due to the Covid-19 pandemic but advertising Antigua and Barbuda as an island destination is never ceasing. Even with suppressed fanfare, the island continues to attract celebrities from around the world. Over the weekend, it welcomed the Atlantic Dash – a crew of four men including Dirty Vegan star Matt Pritchard, renowned travel Blogger Johnny Ward, skipper Billy Taylor, and the sea do...

BBC News Atlantic Ocean voyage ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ Close Johnny Ward is part of a four-man rowing team that has crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a single boat. The travel blogger is originally from Kilkeel, County Down, and took on the challenge to raise awareness about mental health. The trip - dubbed The Atlantic Dash - was a 3,200 mile journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua. Johnnys crewmates were Billy Taylor, Martin Heseltine and BBC TV chef Dirty Vegan Matt Pritch...

BBC News By James McCarthy image captionDirty Vegan star Matt Pritchard has been rowing the Atlantic as part of a four-man crew While most of us have spent months locked down, Dirty Vegan Matt Pritchard has completed a row of the Atlantic. The BBC TV chef was in a team of four crossing the ocean to raise awareness about mental health - and they reached the finish line in Antigua on Sunday. Initially setting off on the 3,200 mile trip from Lanzarote on 6 March, they had to restart from Fuerteven...

Shares On March 3, television personality and vegan activist Matt Pritchard will set off on a 3,200 mile rowing journey across the Atlantic Ocean to raise money for animals. Pritchard will be accompanied by three crew members on the un-assisted journey from Lanzarote (an island off the coast of West Africa) to the Caribbean nation of Antigua which is expected to take 35 to 45 days. “I’m really looking forward to hitting the Atlantic Ocean for 3,200 miles of rowing 24/7, with [crewmembers] B...