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I promised you an adventure!
What to do after #bus24, #train24? Well, you seemed to like little races round Europe, so just before 00:00 CET, I’m starting #Europe24, a challenge to see how many nations I can visit by public transport in 24hrs. Right now, I’m positioning myself…
What to do after #bus24, #train24? Well, you seemed to like little races round Europe, so just before 00:00 CET, I’m starting #Europe24, a challenge to see how many nations I can visit by public transport in 24hrs. Right now, I’m positioning myself…
First, I need to introduce understudy 🐢, Mrs Turtle, leant to me by my wife. If you followed #GoWest, you know Slow Travel Turtle disappeared somewhere in W Yorks. He’s regenerating, but for now Mrs Turtle is stepping in. The furthest she’s been before is Sainsburys. #Europe24
I also need to set out the #Europe24 rules.
✅ Start wherever I think is most efficient, at whatever time works best
✅ Passing straight through a country doesn’t count. I must arrive and leave on different vehicles (except 1st and last countries)
✅ Yes 🚄🚌🚃🚎🛳 No 🚗 🚕 ✈️
✅ Start wherever I think is most efficient, at whatever time works best
✅ Passing straight through a country doesn’t count. I must arrive and leave on different vehicles (except 1st and last countries)
✅ Yes 🚄🚌🚃🚎🛳 No 🚗 🚕 ✈️
It's 150 years this year since Jules Verne published Around the World in Eighty Days. Today I shall embark on my own voyage of homage, on foot, visiting places related in some way to every country Phileas Fogg went to. But the twist is it's all in central London. #londonfogg 🧵
So at 10am I bring you: Around the World in Eight Hours. I blame @politic_animal for catalysing this misadventure with his #bus24 and #train24 voyages. Please follow this thread or #londonfogg to watch my knees give out over 20+ miles of London walking…
And while I'm plugging my #londonfogg adventure, I shall wave needily at the inspiring @ianvisits @VictorianLondon @Londonist @Al_Humphreys @PaulWhitewick @cornish_jack @SlowWaysUK @fugueur @weirdwalk @jayforeman @DaveGorman @BritUnofficial @Mikeachim @dixewills @museumofwalking
Six months ago, I set out to find out how far I could get in 24 hours by bus from London #bus24. Today - the obvious sequel: #train24. What is the furthest point I can get from St Pancras in 24 hours? I think I know on paper, but there’s some tight connections ahead…
Same ground rules as before: I’m finding the furthest station, as the crow flies, you can get to in 24 hours not necessarily the longest journey. With rail timetables in post-Covid flux, the answer could be different next week. And yes, obviously Turtle is coming along #train24
My favourite St Pancras fact - that the distance between the pillars that hold the trains and platforms 50ft in the air is measured to accommodate barrels of beer from Burton-on-Trent, which used to be delivered here by special train twice daily for insatiable London. #train24
Some professional news:
It has been a brilliant seven years at @EalingCouncil as the first and last Head of the Leader’s Office and the first Head of the Cabinet Office. Brilliant place, brilliant people, interesting times.
And now, all the rules are out of the window. More on what comes next shortly.
And now, all the rules are out of the window. More on what comes next shortly.
Things no-one else is crazy enough to be doing right now: final prep for a trip to answer one of the great unanswered questions: just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24hrs? I *think* I know on paper, but in practice…? Follow along from 3am as I slowly go mad. #bus24
So, it’s just gone 3am, and the odyssey begins. I’m at Charing Cross, the point from which all distances from London are measured, and the aim is to get as far a possible from here in 24 hours. And here’s my first bus, London’s fourth longest route. Start the clock! #bus24
One of the joys of Nightbus travel is the gentle rhythm of stops being announced as the bus swings non-stop past them. This bus is struggling though, announcing random stops wherever it likes, like ‘QPR Stadium’ while in Kensington or ‘Surbiton station’ in Hammersmith. #bus24
