The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad,’ wrote Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad, his best-selling account of a six-month excursion to the Holy Land, first published in 1869, 150 years ago.
Jolie King and Mark Firkin are the photogenic, 21st century version of these good-natured, wide-eyed travellers, who set out in July 2017, to travel overland from Australia to the UK, documenting their adventures on Instagram and YouTube, and soliciting funds from their 20,000 followers, as is the fashion.
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