Imagine walking not from one end of Bermuda to the other, but from one side of England to the other ? a 190-mile trek through the Yorkshire moors and the Lake District.

But just being able to say she walked the walk was not enough for nurse Audrey Crevidge. A former worker in the Emergency Room at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Ms Crevidge gathered sponsors for her walk and managed to raise about $5,000.

Now that money will be used by 19-year old Tmara Fubler to go to school ? and not just any school, but Royal National College for the Blind in England.

Tmara became blind as an infant. Born premature, she weighed just one pound six ounces, and had to be placed in an incubator.

Unfortunately the oxygen in the incubator detached her retinas, and she has been blind ever since.

Ms Crevidge worked in the ER several years ago when Tmara was coming in as a patient. Though she met many others in her work in the ER, and Tmara never even knew her name, "she must've made some impression," Ms Crevidge said.

When the idea to do the Coast-to-Coast was born, Ms Crevidge remembered Tmara, and called her mother to propose her idea. "I suppose the rest was history."

It took Ms Crevidge and five others from Bermuda two weeks to complete the walk. "We averaged 15-20 miles per day," she said.

The walk begins in St. Bees in North Yorkshire, where walkers dip their boots in the North Sea.

Then they walk across three national parks, countless tiny English towns, the Yorkshire moors, and through the mountains of England's famed Lake District to reach a bay know as Robin Hood's Bay, where they then dip their boots in the Irish Sea.

Surprisingly, "we had no blisters," Ms Crevidge said ? a feat they achieved by dint of extensive Internet research and, on the advice of an elderly Bermudian lady, "lots of Vaseline".

"To be honest, we were just very, very fortunate," Ms Crevidge, who has also completed the End-to-End here in Bermuda several times, added. "I was very fit before we left ? and at the end of each day we had a hot tub."

The group, like hundreds of others who have done the Coast-to-Coast, stayed in Bed and Breakfasts along the way.

"You meet so many people along the way. The Lake District was the most amazing part. We were 3,000 feet straight up. It was such perfect weather - we could see for miles," Ms Crevidge said. "You really felt like you were on top of the world."

With the chance to finally achieve her dream of attending college, Tmara is also feeling on top of the world.

The Royal National College for the Blind was the only school her mother could find on the Internet which caters to the blind ? there were none in the US. However: "The school costs more than $50,000," Tmara said. "We didn't know how to get the funds."

Now, thanks to Ms Crevidge's help, she plans to study music, rehabilitation, and possibly learning support. She likes gospel and R&B and, according to Ms Crevidge, has a "fabulous" singing voice.

Her dream is to become a professional singer ? rehab and learning support are her backups.

In her rehabilitation studies, she said: "I want to focus on adults who've lost their vision."

Adults who lose their vision often do not know how to cope with being unable to see, she said. "I want to help teach them how to function."

During high school Tmara spent a year working with a class of children with learning challenges. "I really liked doing that," she said.

At the college she hopes to gain more experience with learning support. Tmara, who has one older brother, graduated as an honours student at CedarBridge. When asked about her experience at the school, she admitted there were a lot of challenges ? more from teachers than students.

Sometimes teachers, unsure how to handle her, would simply ignore her, she said, while often they seemed very nervous. Her gym class presented the biggest struggle, with the teacher passing her directly over to her assistant.

"I got really frustrated," Tmara said, admitting she ended up in tears on several occasions, including once when the class had to play table tennis, and she thought she would fail because she was unable to play.

"But," she added, "I made it."

Having spent her last year of middle school and her first year of high school in a school for the blind in Philadelphia, Tmara knew that a college for the blind was where she wanted to go.

After college, she said, she wants to gain experience abroad before coming home to Bermuda and helping out the community.

Apart from her singing talent, the creative teen is also a budding writer. "I like 'Star Trek'," she explained. "So I'm working on a story that I concocted."

Both she and Ms Crevidge offered their thanks to all that sponsored the walk.

"To know that somebody remembered me," Tmara added, "and wanted to do something for me ... I really appreciate Ms Crevidge doing that for me."