Event of the Year 2020

Elope-enhagen (Arrived)

Racers

Updates

  • Feb. 27, 2024, 2:42 p.m. - Team 14 here
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 1:21 p.m. - Odense! this will likely be our final check in before we arrive at the hostel! tysm to the safety team for actioning every single message we've sent thus far <3
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 11:59 a.m. - our final border!! the elopement has successfully reached denmark 🇩🇰
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 9:47 a.m. - on the train to copenhagen! we will be there at 3:30pm and my god do we need new shoes...
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 8:42 a.m. - ! we are coming in to Hamburg train station with our connection to copenhagen leaving in less than an hour... also shout out to chocolate cream ring donuts at cologne train station such a surprise to have filling in a ring donut really made my morning
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 5:08 a.m. - AWAKE and ready for the day!! on the train from Cologne to Hamburg gifted to us yesterday by Scott - onwards to Copenhagen later today!!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 1:29 a.m. - köln dom looking stunning, we've found an uninhabited part of the train station. going to sleep til 6ish. SLEEP
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 12:41 a.m. - at Cologne Airport! heading for the train station via public transport blagging
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 9:39 p.m. - still on the bus to Cologne!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 6:47 p.m. - We are flix bussing our way to Cologne and have been gifted a train to copenhagen by our very first driver Scott who got us from Edinburgh airport to south of glasgow! maybe the 9 separate hitches from dundee to london weren't so bad after all 😉. we are still without any more sleep than a couple of hours in a welcome break - the grind never stops 🫡🫡🫡
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 4:44 p.m. - after a rather traumatic journey we have accepted defeat with finding someone travelling to denmark. so we are going to try and blag our way on the flixbus for as long as possible!!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 2:18 p.m. - on ferry! been told weather is very very bad. pray for our stomachs. UK SIGNOFF
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 1:52 p.m. - waiting to board the ferry!!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 10:09 a.m. - on flixbus to lille paid for by some of the generous drivers we have had!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 8:13 a.m. - we have blagged our way onto the underground and heading towards Victoria station and (hopefully) a free journey towards maidstone!! 🚂🚂🚂
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 7:26 a.m. - finally a lift to greenford london here we come!!!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 4:55 a.m. - we are awake! power nap complete ✅
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 1 a.m. - waiting on a lift to maidstone from the top of the M25 !
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 11:37 p.m. - we have turned down the regency mansion for a trip to the M25 with a radio aficionado! call us crazy, we continue the race.
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 10:35 p.m. - while the other teams seek refuge indoors the eloping continues. the elopement is nonstop.
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 9:10 p.m. - here we GOOOOOO!! 7th hitch one day beat that? boshhh
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 8:20 p.m. - got another lift heading south!! he lied to me first but came clean to help us out!!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 6:45 p.m. - finally made it past manchester hoping for a hitch south east!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 4:35 p.m. - SUCCESS!! mariam <333 picked us up and is taking us to manchester and saving us from the piss of god
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 3:28 p.m. - hurrah a lift to the edge of the border!!! hopefully england soon
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 2:32 p.m. - new car heading north slightly for a better place!!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 1:34 p.m. - made it to the services!! having a massively overpriced burger king #kurgerbing
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 1 p.m. - new car! heading to abington services - waited only two minutes!!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 12:22 p.m. - got a ride to Kirkintilloch!! first ride of the race!! thumbs up and v happy.
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 10:57 a.m. - have u ever had TOO many krispy kreme doughnuts? sadly this is a struggle we are currently facing as we balance a dozen gifted to us from a lovely man
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 10:14 a.m. - having had no luck getting a lift we are on the fly dundee to edinburgh! hoping to find a lift there 🤞🏻
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 8:09 a.m. - let the eloping begin