Friends Who Took Double-Dcker Bus Around World Reunite 50 Years Later

(Left to right) David McLaughlin, Mike Conway, Bernice Poole, John Winter and Sally Mears. The friends set off in a bus called the Sir George White Special from Bristol to Canada, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru in 1970. THE SIR GEORGE WHITE SPECIAL GROUP/SWNS

A group of friends who took a London double-decker bus 40,000 miles around the world have reunited – 50 years later.

The eleven men and women were just strangers when they answered an advert to travel across the globe in the iconic red vehicle.