A wife took a block of her husband's favourite Lancashire cheese on an epic 24,000km, 10-country journey after being grounded by the Icelandic volcanic eruption.
Olwyn Green decided to buy a 3.6kg roll of white Lancashire Crumbly while visiting relatives in Preston, northern England, and carry it back for her husband Jim's 75th birthday.
But the travel chaos caused by the volcanic ash meant Olwyn had to embark on a massive road and rail journey through Wales, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark to her son's home in Sweden.
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