Quirky World...Frequent flyer lands gold card in five days

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Adam Rowland, a 30-year-old online marketing manager from Epping, Essex, decided to take on the challenge and document his experience through an online blog, in which he explained that as well as getting a British Airways gold card in less than a week, he also hoped to use the trip as a way of overcoming personal challenges, including a “white-knuckle fear of turbulence” and “seeking pleasure in the company of strangers”.

Writing on his blog, he said: “I’d convinced myself that I would never get to gold the long way round and then I found a way that I could. I’d broken out of the boundary that I’d set myself and the challenge was afoot.”