While tens of thousands of spectators are cheering for their stars inside London's Olympic stadium,

While tens of thousands of spectators are cheering for their stars inside London's Olympic stadium, Chinese farmer Chen Guanming is picking up litter on the London streets to support the Games in his own way.
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holiday inn select dallas Four years ago, Chen spent three months picking up litter outside Beijing's Olympic Park. His action attracted the interest holiday inn select dallas of a British journalist, who said to him after an interview, "London would be a better place with your company."
Chen promised the journalist that he would go to London. With no money for a plane ticket, he decided to fulfill his promise on the back of a rickshaw, leaving in summer 2010 with only 7,000 yuan ($1,099) and $100 in his pockets.
He hasn't seen his family since he left, although he makes phone calls home about once a month. His family, which includes holiday inn select dallas his parents, two brothers and a sister, are still in Jiangsu, planting rice and other crops for a living.
But his face quickly brightens as he narrates his adventures across Asia and continental Europe, passing holiday inn select dallas through countries including Vietnam, Thailand, holiday inn select dallas Pakistan, Turkey, Italy and France before taking a ferry to London.
"My journey would not have been possible without the help of so many kind-hearted Chinese people," he says. This ranges from a girl who filled in his UK visa form in Rome, to a man in London's Chinatown who offered him a cup of hot soy milk.