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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Leicester

Two friends ‘making the impossible possible’ on road trip of a lifetime

Merete Buljo (right) and Tonje Thoresen (left), both from Norway, posing during the 5-day Princesses Rally in Chateau de Syam, central France - (AP)

Two friends, one with rheumatoid arthritis and the other blind, are defying limitations by participating in a women-only vintage car race across France.

Merete Buljo, whose painful joints prevent her from driving a stick shift, and Tonje Thoresen, a former photographer who lost her sight to a brain tumor five years ago, are navigating their way from Paris to Saint-Tropez.

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