I attempted to live off the land for an entire day. Let's just say it was highly eventful.
#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.
I attempted to live off the land for an entire day. The land was not kind. (YouTube)
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Though 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!
Totally agree mate.
Guys: I am re-uploading this in the hopes that it changes to 1080p this time. It will be back online at about 10am BST
Spluga pass I take it? Depending when in the summer this was I might have missed you by a day when driving through it.
Yeah man! I'd say this was roughly the 16th of august 2016! (give or take 5 days)
Let'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.
haha 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.
This stuff is so amazing to watch, loved every second of it! 🙏🏼
Thanks Kristin! comments like this make me feel all warm inside :)
You dropping your hat seems to be a regular occurrence
I'll give you that one mr smith!
All of those hitchhikes are probably records for shortest wait times, yeah?
I 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!
This is bril mate! Did you record this entire trip from start to finish? Excited for more from this series.
I 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!
You 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.
Mate 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?
Brilliant stuff
Cheers Elliot!
Not sure this has fully processed - only loading in 720p at the moment. Maybe give it an hour :|
I'm German and I don't even understand what the drunk German guy is saying
Mate I couldn't catch a word.. That must be some seriously strong Swiss dialect..
Making lockdown more bearable🤣🥳
I'm glad you think so Kelsey :)