John Tennyson is raising money for a cancer charity following the death of his father
A football fan has completed a 160-mile walk to attend Notts County's last away game of the season.on Monday and arrived in Maidstone, Kent, at about 18:30 BST on Friday.
He said the walk, in memory of his father who died from stomach cancer in May last year, was the hardest thing he had ever done.He said there were several moments on the journey where he thought he would not make it."I've never known anything like it," he said. "When you're walking along some of the roads there wasn't paths - I had lorries coming past me, cars coming past me at rocket speed, then I had all the rain.Mr Tennyson said there were times where he did not think he would make it to MaidstoneHe took his dad's ashes with him so they could make the journey together."I named it 'me and my dad's last journey'.
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