How far WEST can I get from the Prime Meridian by PUBLIC TRANSPORT in 24 hours?
Last year we went east from the Greenwich Meridian…so the obvious follow up – how far WEST can we get, by surface public transport, in 24 hours?
Join Mrs Turtle and I as we head out into the August murk on an epic adventure to the edge of Europe.
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19:00 Probably already mentioned, but these were Belgian and German coaches
Just amazing. … so unique!! Keep it up please
I love settling in for a relaxing time you tube binge and seeing a new upload, thankyou for a wonderful, relaxing & informative adventure west ❤
I loved this video! I was brought on many a trips to south-west Kerry by my Dad and I think it's (on a day when the sun is shining) one of the most beautiful places in the world! I also spent two weeks in irish College (a program to immerse school students in the Irish Langauge) in BallyFerriter (Baile an Fhéirtéaraigh) when I was 16 which inspired me to keep learning the Irish Langauge today!
Your pronounciations were fab and I hope you don't mind me suggesting some improvements. I mean it fully as an educational endeavour, not as a critical one!
Howth – Pronouned 'Hoe-th' rather than 'How-th'
Gaeltacht – 'Gwale – tockt'
Daingean – 'Dan – gen' – Exactly how you said it but minus the 'g' sound (Irish uses the soft g almost exlcusively).
Neamhóg – 'nav – ohg'.
Dunchaoin – 'Doon – Chween'
On a seperate note, the LocalLink (Nasc Áitiúil) services is such a great service and one of the highlights in recent Irish transport developments. Great to see it being used.
Thank you again for such an enjoyable video!!!
Thank you very much, for another excellently-crafted, well-researched and enjoyable pretext for seeing more lovely countryside (well spotted with the chough) along with nouveau-Betjeman-esque comment on urban architecture (felicitous turn of phrase regarding Crewe station’s monastic fallen arches!).
From your discerning and rightly-appreciative audience you will have learned to accept the sort of query & quibble which (one sees from the Comments column) denote its devoted attention to your every word. 36.20: “Handel concertos “. As you swoop down into that last bastion of Gaelic-speaking Ireland, the music playing is, not a concerto, but part of a Handel anthem written for the coronation of George II in 1727, proclaiming him king of all England and Ireland. Whether that musical celebration of English sovereignty over Ireland was actually what was playing on the bus, or whether for some arcane reason you just fancied it coming at that point, you do not say. Perhaps wisely.
Thank you again: good, clean, thoughtful fun!
my goal for the next week is to casually use "decontextualized" in a sentence.
Thnx for this interesting video.
When you've exhausted your 24 hour challenges, are you going to see how far you can get in a week, and make it to China?
There is a new scenic cycle and footpath along Dublin Port. Bus Eireann lost a lot of express routes when the contracts came up for tender.
Excellent stuff!
What a wonderful surprise to see another of your videos – coincidentally the second I've watched this week featuring a bus journey across Ireland, after Steve Marsh's latest upload. What a marvelous country is Éire. One day I'll make it back there…
Very enjoyable video. Perhaps not as thrilling when there's a definite end, but that's okay.
Another wonderful adventure, was wondering given the lack of area you had how you would fill 45 minutes of video and you've shown us some wonderful views and sights. Certainly more west than I ever assumed.
Wonderful, thanks! 🙂
Lovely addition to the 24 hour challenge series, though I have one quibble surely Iceland is in Europe and further west?
C'mon, how much did this waste of time cost. About 70% would have been spent looking at the back of industrial buidings with stiff legs and a sore bum the only pay-off.
Wonderful, as always. As others have noted before me, it's always such a treat when you upload new travelogues! 🙂
I cannot get enough of these videos. Well done
Not sure those are Dock leaves. Looks more like Nalca; a Patagonian invasive plant with an edible stem (like rhubarb).
The voice over is immaculate, written like some french existentialist novel at times
I absolutely adore these videos, the amount of history and culture packed into each narration is so impressive.
"…roofless and pigeon-haunted, architectural remnants of a former cohesive whole are left in Ozymandian, decontextualised isolation."
I come for the scenery but I stay for these turns of phrase. Thank you, as always, Mr Turtle!
I am so glad you're back 🙂
Also, and this is a good tip for anyone, really – it's the lens you want to look at, not the screen 🙂
40:10 – I bet you were well chuffed….
Always enjoy the commentary on your adventures 😂
At first, I thought that was your back garden
Another incredible Traveling Turtle video. As always. Bang on. Never has any travel video series given me a better sense of place than yours does.
Crossing Ireland and Germany in 24 hours, of course, begs the question – how about France?
Also, this might be a little goofy, but "how many islands can I visit in 24 hours" might be fun.
Beautiful video. I'm going through a hard time at the moment, and this was a beautiful salve to my soul.
Great video as always, thank you.
I got nearly as far west, once – to Cabo da Roca in Portugal (just a short jaunt over the Sintra hills from Lisbon). Even has similarly forbidding cliffs.
Enjoyed it a lot, as always!
Now to complete all the directions, (as train was essentially how far south we could go), we need to see a How far north from London can you get in 24h
So the answer is that the 24 hours run out about the time the land runs out as well, very nice. I like how, despite the video title/idea only differing from a previous video of yours by a single word, the two are nothing alike.
Now that you've gone both west and east this way, and south too if we count your trip to Bova Marina, this only leaves one cardinal direction to cover from London. Well, if only train travel in the UK weren't so expensive…
Incredible video as always. Phenomenal watch! Your dedication is admirable, you are definitely a lot fitter than I am (in my early 20's haha), this was a LOT of walking! The Handel as you got to the end of the last bus created a dramatic scene indeed. One question though; what was the 'Hallelujah' as you finished your walk to the end of the peninsula? Sounded also like Handel but definitely not the end of Messiah. Possibly Israel in Egypt or something?
Oh, and P.S. You went west on the LUAS Red Line of course!! East would been into the sea!
Another well written vlog, loved the reference to the 'beatification of Eileen' (oh Come on Eileen)!!!
One of very few channels where I know I shall be both entertained and culturally enriched. Another treat, thank you for bringing us along!
Erudite, witty, informative, descriptive and poetic, you breathe fresh life into the voiceover, the rhythm and pace of which match enticingly deft and aesthetically pleasing visuals well couched in their cogent editing. A complete joy.
24:53 who else heard "girls" instead of "gulls" and wondered why girls on a night out would be rooting through bin bags. Not me, that's for sure 🫣
So lovely to see Greenwich again, I lived in Lewisham (Park) all through my twenties and Greenwich was a favoured place to go out for drinks. 🙂 Another great vlog, getting to see parts of the country that, for the most part, I have fond memories of either living in or travelling through. Hoping to leave NI soon and return. ❤
I used to work for a few years in a building at the end of Alexandra Road, and I can tell you that walk down the full length of Alexandra Road could be soul destroying. It's the pedestrian equivalent of watching paint dry if the paint itself had a pungent odor. Also, if you plan on any further Dublin videos, please note Luas is pronounced like lewis. Luas is the Irish word for speed. I did chuckle at your Bosphorus observation.
Having watched it all now, I can only say… SUCH a treat, and thank you!