BREAKING NEWS: The Capital Challenge was completed successfully at 4:38pm GMT, as the team rolled into London St Pancras Station. We started in Budapest, and visited Vienna, Bratislava, Prague, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and, finally, London. That's 8 capitals in 24 hours, a new Guinness World Record. Thanks for your support!

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Together with my son and some friends, we're setting out to break the Guinness World Record for most international capitals visited in a 24-hour period. Along the way I'll be charting our progress on Twitter and Facebook, so follow along with us! @revjohndelia and #‎capitalchallenge

All donations will go to Opportunity International, a Christian organization that provides microfinancing to ambitious people in the developing world. More than 90% of their loans go to women, helping them to support their families and gain financial independence. Your gifts will be used more than once! Opportunity International loans have a payback rate of 98%. You read that right--98% of the money that goes out in loans comes right back to be lent out again.

You can help this great work! You can pledge a total amount, or choose to pledge an amount per capital that we are able to visit. Our journey begins in Rome on Friday the 20th of March.

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