The Great Contiki Challenge 2014

Our contiki lanyard and completed challenge sheet.

"A street named after a Pharrell song" - HAPPY!

A view of the London Eye on a beautiful blue-skyed day.

Team MAKA with a Mind the Gap sign.



The Banksy Tunnel. Which is essentially a massive tunnel used for graffiti.
In other words, The Graffiti Tunnel.



For those of you that follow me on my other social media sites (Facebook or instagram) you would’ve seen a bunch of photos go up that related to something named The Great Contiki Challege or #TGCC14.  For those of you that didn’t, I’ll fill you in a little bit more.  On Saturday my friends, Amz, Standie, Madz and I headed off to a challenge which is organised every year by our friends at Contiki.  This challenge is essentially a massive scavenger hunt throughout London where each team is given a challenge sheet in which they need to complete (or complete as much as possible) by the end of the day.  Anyway, I don’t want to go into too much detail of how the game works instead I’m going to fill you all in on where the scavenger hunt actually took us…

We roamed the streets of zones 1 and 2 throughout London, snapping pictures of Mind the Gap signs, royal street names, a famous memorial in Postman Park and the place where Sherlock Holmes jumped from the building.  We also travelled from tube station to tube station capturing images of the Banksy Tunnel, the London Eye, the view of Buck Palace from the blue bridge in King James’s park, the Truman brewery, a pop up shop made from a cargo ship, the houses where Jimmy Hendrix and Handel were neighbours 200 years apart and a shop named Choccywoccydoodah in Carnaby St.

Everyone had sore feet and retired to bed after the long day it was.  So all in all, it was quite the eventful day!