AN INTREPID Ammanford duo has set out on a mammoth walk to Bristol to take part in the International Fair Trade Towns conference.

Phil Broadhurst and Clare Pilborough from Ammanford Fair Trade warmed up ahead of their trek by making Fairtrade banana smoothies with iSmooth's bicycle-powered smoothie maker, helped by pupils from Ysgol Gymraeg Rhydaman and Ysgol Bro Banw.

Their journey will include a visit to the Newport Wetlands Centre, a walk over the Severn Bridge, and a meeting with a Nicaraguan Fair Trade coffee producer before arriving at the conference on July 4.

The walkers will also stop at various Co-Operative Food stores, who will be supplying energy boosting Fairtrade bananas and refreshing bottles of water for the walkers.