Where would you get to if you started from Greenwich’s Prime Meridian and went east by ground-level public transport for 24 hours? In theory: almost to Ukraine. Join Mrs Turtle and myself as we test out the practice.
Want to know how much this adventure cost? There’s a breakdown at 40:00!
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28:05 What are the 80s songs that he is playing here? They sound so familiar! On the other hand, I guess a lot of 80s songs do sound familiar.
Great video, btw.
I love the Mercator joke. Some real gems of turns of phrases on this channel!
Thank you Jo for another brilliant journey and video documentary about it. I couldn't find much connection with it until the end, as I recently visited Warsaw and travelled on a Flixbus 🙂
The phrase “counterintuitive occidental travel” is a great example of why I love these videos. 3:12
Once again an amazing treat your trip this time to the furthest Eastern point from Greenwich.
As a Berliner I can't avoid correcting you on what you said about Kennedy and the so called myth of turning himself into a laughing stock for identifying himself as a jelly donut. This is completely wrong. Even though Berliner is a common name for a jelly donut, Berliners would never ever identify themselves as jelly donuts. Consequently, it's not called a Berliner in Berlin but a Pfannkuchen which translates to pancake. Not a single Berliner was associating his famous sentence with saying "I'm a jelly donut". The Berliners were excited and heart-warmed by Kenndy identifying himself as one of "us" in extremely hard times after the recent construction of the Berlin wall. The story just doesn't make sense. It's annoying that it is believed by many people.
ah, zero degrees Longitude…
Great video except for lying about visiting Bielefeld. Did you get off the train? No? Then you have no right to question the conspiracy.
so much history
Did you know that airplanes are public transport?
Only 20 minutes for getting your train in Cologne? I caught myself shouting "bist du bescheuert?" at the screen.
I like your style very much btw
Hey! I know that pub in Cologne!
That was an amazing journey to follow! As a public transport nerd living in Warsaw this was a blast!
Do you think it would be possible to get to Belarus in a day (if only Westerners could legally travel there)?
wouldve loved to have seen the hungarian schoolbus adventure
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼better than anything on TV. Quality entertainment 🙏🏼
I don't understand why you are blaming the Deutsche Bahn, after all you werer already late in Brussels. If the ICE to Cologne had already left there, you would have had to change 3 times to arrive in Cologne at 22:28. Then you would have had to run for the connection to Budapest.
Or you would have had to take the ES 453 (19:22) from Brussels, which would have taken you to Berlin at 6:48.
Alternatively, you could have travelled from Brüssel to Berlin at 19:32 with a NightJet to Aachen and a regional train to Düsseldorf. The ICE would have had arrived in Berlin at 4:20. The only problem is that you have to reserve a seat on the NightJet, wich is not possible at such short notice.
That means you were much luckier that the ICE was waiting in Brussels.
Finally, £20 refund for a ticket that cost £140 is pretty low for arriving 4 hours late (because of the Eurostar).
me: goes 1 degree west to get to 359 east
The Crobag at 24:45 is not very patronised, a Berliner is called "Pfannkuchen" in Berlin 😉
By the way, the city marketing of Bielefeld made a contest: you can win 1 million euros if you can prove Bielefeld does not exist. The Bielefeld conspiricy dates from the first days of internet. Wordst biggest universities where the first institutions to use it: Cambridge, Oxford, MIT. And a university from a German called Bielefeld, that no one ever heard of.
The various behaviours of passengers through the Chunnel all feel familiar. 🙂 On the long unbroken run coming down from Derbyshire to St. Pancras in the early 10s, I chose to eschew connectivity. Instead, I took a little netbook and played a clone of Transport Tycoon. It made it one of the best journeys I've ever had. I don't think that was the time they made me wait in St. Pancras for hours because I had an off-peak ticket….
Could you not have gotten a few minutes extra by starting at a different point on the meridian, for instance le mans is very close to the meridian, or even just the A2 junction with Charlton Way
I know you said you did not like to include Sundays in your challenges but I think it would be quite interesting if you did how far you can get by but from 00.01 to 23.59 on a Sunday and how different it is to the previous UK bus challenges.
Fantastic. A lovely combination of adventure, history and current conditions. I hadn't realised DB had deteriorated so much. Great info. You managed quite far east, nearly as east as Johannesburg😊 Paul, Johannesburg
The "Anhalter Bahnhof" in Berlin would be at the place where the now "Berlin Hauptbahnhof" is located so Wannsee is the better choice 😁
Now go South.
Without a doubt my favorite youtuber right now. I've binged your content and only hope you'll continue. Maybe a possible challenge is starting from Portugal and seeing how far east you can on the continent? Or crossing France in a day by local bus.
I went to the opera in Bielefelt. Halevy's La Juive
I have to admin, when I started watching your journey "Tram station somewhere in Warsaw" wouldn't be my first answer. And I really loved that you just didn't say "enough" on Central Station but carried on further as far as you could, reaching something I used to call "Asian part of Warsaw" (so the other side of Vistula river). 🙂
Cracking film Jo (got exciting towards the end as to how you where going to play this adventure)
Fab 🙏🏼🤠🇬🇧🇵🇱
ATB Simon
as a resident of berlin wansee, i say welcome 😀
Wow, you are so relaxing to watch. The classical music in the background, your calm voiceovers, which feature your practically poetic way of speaking, especially upon arrival in Berlin-Wannsee.
YouTube usually gives me chaotic travel videos, which drain me (the only exception is Jetlag, the Game), but I can watch this after a bad day to calm down, or to wind down. You have a new loyal subscriber!! 🙂
I love how your videos aren't just about travel; they also include interesting facts, information about historic places, and amusing bits such as the town even Merkel joked about not existing! Definitely new information, at least to an American.
Never never I would take night ICE trains. It’s a shame…slow, many unnecessary stops and you can’t sleep due to bright lights all the night.
These trains are only for emergency travels.
5:02 crossrail 0
Thank you for your moving description of alighting at Berlin – Wannsee station. A poetic description of the geographical location and its appalling place in history.
"The only time DB runs on time is when you want the train to be late," has got to be a quote of the year for me. On my trip last month the only trains that were more or less on time in Germany were a Czech EC, a Hungarian EC, and most of the DBRegio services. I even got caught up in the DB train driver strike that canceled a night train and required an emergent two-day reroute through Vienna and Prague….
Brilliant as always!
Really enjoyed this and happy to discover your channel 👍
Your question – my guess would have been Lowestoft for about the same cost!
Literaly you end up around 1 mile from my home 😑
Great stuff Sir, Cheers!
And how far east by public transport without going west… not very much… in East Anglia which should be well it is totally pants!