I attempted to live off the land for an entire day. Let's just say it was highly eventful.
Added 2020-05-06 16:38:52 +0000 UTC#4 in the Barcelona to Berlin 2016 throwback series.
We're up in the far northern reaches of Italy now, and the aim is to cross over into Switzerland and reach the village of Andeer by nightfall, using a mixture of hiking and hitchhiking. To make things slightly trickier though, I could only eat and drink things that flowed, grew or lived in the land.
But the day ended up being so much more than about the crippling hunger. There were petrifying paths, a close shave with a marmot, three of the fastest hitchhikes I've ever gotten, including a near death experience (but surprisingly not with the drunken old man who drove me to Splugen) and a pretty scary night's sleep to cap it off. But would I succeed in my mission? Watch to find out.
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I think the real mr Grylls would have something to say..
tom davies
2020-05-10 09:20:41 +0000 UTCTotally agree mate.
tom davies
2020-05-10 09:20:25 +0000 UTCHaha that sounds fucking class. Can't wait to tackle a mad hill on my bike again.
tom davies
2020-05-10 09:19:26 +0000 UTCHe is the one true Bear. PRAISE HIM.
Jackson M-B
2020-05-10 02:02:09 +0000 UTCThough I've never done a journey quite like this one, when traveling around Europe, I find as much, if not more, entertaining things *outside* of the cities and towns than inside them. The stuff in the towns you've mostly already seen pictures on travel sites, guides, etc. But the real *journey* is in the small little places that are not in the guidebooks and often don't even have names! The towns and cities are great, but the *stories* come from the unique experiences you have, not from postcard-like photos that everyone has seen. Please keep sharing these!
EJL
2020-05-08 20:22:04 +0000 UTCI crossed the Spluga pass on my bike two years ago and I remember flying down the stretch of road visible at 7:18 at speeds I thought of as impossible on a bike before that time.
2020-05-08 16:51:18 +0000 UTCGuys: I am re-uploading this in the hopes that it changes to 1080p this time. It will be back online at about 10am BST
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:59:31 +0000 UTCYeah man! I'd say this was roughly the 16th of august 2016! (give or take 5 days)
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:51:04 +0000 UTChaha I actually went back for that one! I probably did lose it later on in this trip though. I sure as hell don't have it now.
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:48:15 +0000 UTCThanks Kristin! comments like this make me feel all warm inside :)
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:47:29 +0000 UTCI'll give you that one mr smith!
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:46:56 +0000 UTCI mean the Triumph couldn't have been faster. It was the first car that came past whilst I was on that road and it stopped! The other two were insanely quick too.. I'm going to make a compilation of my top 5 fastest hitchhikes ever soon!
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:46:28 +0000 UTCI did mate, although because I wasn't as serious and confident about making a youtube series out of it, and was hungover a lot, there are some flat sections with inconsistent levels of entertainment. But I should be able to get 2 or 3 more stories like this out of it all!
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:45:20 +0000 UTCMate I was so tempted. Took all my will power to not go in and order a Pizza. No way man, what trip were you doing at the time?
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:44:02 +0000 UTCCheers Elliot!
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:42:59 +0000 UTCI'm glad you think so Kelsey :)
tom davies
2020-05-07 07:39:32 +0000 UTCSpluga pass I take it? Depending when in the summer this was I might have missed you by a day when driving through it.
Sam Wiström
2020-05-06 20:58:12 +0000 UTCLet's all have a moment of silence for the brave hats that have surrendered their lives in the line of duty for the sake of entertainment.
Mindez
2020-05-06 20:07:50 +0000 UTCThis stuff is so amazing to watch, loved every second of it! 🙏🏼
Kristin Walter
2020-05-06 20:03:40 +0000 UTCYou dropping your hat seems to be a regular occurrence
2020-05-06 19:14:28 +0000 UTCAll of those hitchhikes are probably records for shortest wait times, yeah?
jabbawabs
2020-05-06 17:39:45 +0000 UTCThis is bril mate! Did you record this entire trip from start to finish? Excited for more from this series.
2020-05-06 17:32:33 +0000 UTCYou missed a banging restaurant on the Italian side of the Splugen pass. If you ever go back, it's €5 for an incredible pizza at the place right on the edge of the lake. I also had to sit and wait for a bus for 4 hours in Andeer, which was probably the most boring experience of my life to date.
2020-05-06 17:30:01 +0000 UTCBrilliant stuff
Elliot Smith
2020-05-06 17:21:25 +0000 UTCThat cliff: this hike actually had the potential to be another 127 hours
Danny Randell
2020-05-06 17:19:37 +0000 UTCHahaha flip me: "You know you're getting hungry when you're considering dropping a boulder on a cow's head--just to eat it's raw flesh."
Danny Randell
2020-05-06 17:18:09 +0000 UTCNot sure this has fully processed - only loading in 720p at the moment. Maybe give it an hour :|
tom davies
2020-05-06 17:13:43 +0000 UTCMate I couldn't catch a word.. That must be some seriously strong Swiss dialect..
tom davies
2020-05-06 17:09:04 +0000 UTCI'm German and I don't even understand what the drunk German guy is saying
2020-05-06 16:48:41 +0000 UTCMaking lockdown more bearable🤣🥳
Kelsey Elizabeth
2020-05-06 16:39:52 +0000 UTC
