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The World's Oldest Traveller
Here's something to aspire to: an 106 year old man has travelled the world on public transport. His secret? Never saying "I'm tired"
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An 106 year old man from Japan has earned the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to have travelled around the world using public transport.
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It took one month for Saburo Shochi, a professor at Fukuoka University of Education, to lecture in six countries and travel almost 60,000 kilometres.
His secret? "In my whole life, I have never said 'I'm tired'."
With his 106th birthday coinciding with his return to Japan and successful record achievement, the centenarian told his supporters, "I will live more".
