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Bloke Decides To Fly Across The World To Experience New Year's Eve Twice

Bloke Decides To Fly Across The World To Experience New Year's Eve Twice

He flew further than 3,000 miles.

James Dawson

James Dawson

You know what does my head in, people who reckon New Year's Eve is the most 'over-rated night of the year'. It's probably the most overstated, dull, miserablist opinion that gets put out there in December. Personally, my 31st was great and I'm sure it was for plenty of other people, too.

In fact, one guy had such a good New Year's Eve that he decided to do it not once, but twice. Londoner James Ware, 24, celebrated at midnight with fireworks at Sydney Harbour before flying further than 3,000 miles across the International Date Line to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, South Pacific where he welcomed 2017 for a second time.

Watch footage of the crazy ways he rang in 2017 here...

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James, a radio presenter, said of his adventure: "I had wanted to do this for a while after hearing about Leonardo DiCaprio doing the same thing with an anonymous billionaire on a private jet.

"I wanted to see if there was any way for us mere mortals to achieve the same thing."

The flight from London to Sydney was 21 hours long and then from Sydney to the Cook Islands was longer than seven hours with a layover in Auckland, New Zealand.

After bringing in the new year in Sydney, he landed in Rarotonga on the 31st of December at 21:30 local time.

He added: "It left me feeling like the Mo Farah of New Year's such was the stamina required to fly over 3,000 miles between the two via Auckland to reach Rarotonga which is 21 hours behind Sydney so that I could get the ultimate New Year's déjà vu."

To be honest, it's decent he wanted to do it, but comparing himself to an athlete is a bit much.

You sat on a plane for ages and got to experience the beginning of 2017.It's cool, but it's not quite worthy of gold medal, mate...

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