International Mankini Challenge

Since the International Mankini Challenge went global in June 2009, there´s been a relatively slow take up by you guys to add to my efforts with only Phil Ling from the UK contributing any pictures (by Big Ben in London). This is understandable. However Ireland´s very own Bernard Sloan has also now taken up the challenge.

I met Berno in March 2009 where he was working behind the bar in the Loki Hostel in La Paz, Bolivia. I´d just come back from cycling the World´s Most Dangerous Road in the Mankini and unlike others who shook their heads and said I was mad, Berno just smiled and told me it was a great effort.

Well Berno´s now down in, as he calls it, “Ireland´s 33rd County” – the Cock and Bull Bar in Bondi Beach, Australia. A certain drinks company was having a promotion night with Mankini´s being given away. Everyone was wearing theirs on top of their clothes, but Berno decided he´d contribute to the challenge and wear it properly.

Good on you Berno! Hopefully this won´t be his first and last Mankini endeavour and we`ll be seeing him in other locations around the world in his newly acquired Mankini.

Check out the pictures of Berno in the Mankini here!