Tenby adventurer, Rosie Swale Pope, is back on the road continuing her round-the-world trek this week after being involved in an accident with a bus. The 58-year-old grandmother had a minor collision with the vehicle and was knocked over near Irkutsk in Siberia, Russia. She received a cut to her head and a bruised leg, but was otherwise unhurt. "The bus driver was absolutely devastated as Rosie has become a national hero in Russia," her local co-ordinator, Ann Rowell, told the Observer. "The bus driver took her to hospital and there the doctors discovered she had pneumonia, which she had probably had for three weeks," Ann continued. "Rosie was then transferred to the regional hospital in Irkutsk, where she received excellent care and had a complete check over - apparently her heart is like a 20-year-old," she added. Rosie had the stitches out on Friday and the bus driver took her home to stay with him and his family, before taking her back to where the accident happened so she could continue her journey. "She is now back on the road and did six miles on Sunday," said Ann. Rosie has also been reunited with her trolley, which was also damaged in the accident. "The driver and his colleagues at their garage repaired the trolley and Rosie was also going to give a talk - in Russian - to the children at the school where the bus driver's son attends before setting off," added Ann. Rosie's next goal is Magadan, 4,600 miles from her current location, which she hopes to reach by next April, before making her way across the Bering Strait into Alaska and Canada and on to the USA to New York, Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland and then south through Scotland and Ireland.
