Event of the Year 2020

Bread Party? (Arrived)

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Updates

  • Feb. 28, 2024, 12:22 p.m. - WE MADE IT TO COPENHAGEN BABY !!!!!! trials and tribulations to get here but we are so happy to have made it - major thank u to everyone who drove us, followed along, donated, and sent us messages to entertain/ encourage us. Bread update: I think I ate too much bread, cannot eat any more for a while (give it like 2 days tops). Over and out!! xoxo Team Bread Party !!!!!!!
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 9:40 a.m. - We are in Denmark! Who knew ferry rides could be so smooth (not you English channel). The end is in sight but lowkey we kinda miss the highs and lows of hitchhiking already. Sweden looking tempting 👀 Jk we are ready for the hostel beds and some real food (please god please a vegetable) CPH we coming babyyyy !!!!
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 7:03 a.m. - So our journey ends how it started... on the bus! Honestly cannot believe we made it here, I am still having nightmares about Hamburg and the whole of yesterday feels like a fever dream. We are so hyped to get to Copenhagen and see everyone, see ya later Germany!
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 6:01 a.m. - We are AWAKE and ready to catch our bus 🫡
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 10:16 p.m. - we found some beds and are going to SLEEP. Hyped for our bus out of here tomorrow morning!!!!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 7:08 p.m. - After declining a sketchy offer out we are wandering around the lovely central streets of Lübeck. Hoping someone will take us in for the night. In the meantime we are being treated to some live music and cold coca-cola from CVJM
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 6:08 p.m. - getting a ride in a yellow car to city center to find somewhere to sleep for the night and hopefully a bus tomorrow morning
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 4:56 p.m. - We are far from Hamburg now...it can't hurt us
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 4:21 p.m. - After some odd looks and another burger king we are heading towards Lübeck
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 3:36 p.m. - WE ARE BACK ON THE A1 - feeling so blessed, never ever ever been so happy to escape a city and see a service station!! hamburg see u never, u were worse than cologne. shoutout to an actual godsend angel of a burger king employee and random man who ended up driving us for joining forces and overcoming language barriers to help us get away from that godforsaken city. literally cannot believe we got out 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Onwards!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 3:11 p.m. - .
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 3:11 p.m. - we are escaping Hamburg!!!!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 2:55 p.m. - it is not going well. we are begging so shamelessly for people to take us on the a1. hamburg we are not your biggest fans. you're making us miss Cologne...
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 11:51 a.m. - going into hamburg
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 11:04 a.m. - After an absolute grind of a morning and securing 5 hitches, we have finally arrived in Hamburg! We are rested and ready to battle for another lift out of here, especially as we've just seen another team for the first time since maidstone - it's on. We are noticing that every single service station on the A1 looks the exact same and we are so ready to be out of it, but we know this game backwards by now...
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 9:22 a.m. - We are heading North again and finally getting a longer ride. All feeling pretty awake after a tense last ride but at least we are no longer exhausted. Inching ever closer to Copenhagen!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 8:42 a.m. - Next jump north, with a doggo and some Bulgarian people! Raya is chatting and I don't understand anything.
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 7:59 a.m. - A bit more North, but we're struggling for every ride.
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 7:35 a.m. - Heading to Ösnabruck.
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 6:43 a.m. - We are tired but moving North. No more words. Xoxo bread party
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 6:07 a.m. - Going to Münster. We had some time to reflect outside this service station and we decided we hate Cologne, all our homies hate Cologne. But moving further away from it! We are all so tired and I have nothing more interesting to say
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 5:11 a.m. - The loveliest gentleman we could have met at 5am took us past Dortmund! Spirits rejuvenated, heading north :)
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 4:24 a.m. - We're leaving the rurh region baby! After 6 hours spent in this service station, an angry service station guy and Raya playing solitaire while the others slept, we are finally on our way again!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 2:09 a.m. - Alas, we knew this moment would come… our luck has run out and we are stuck. we are sat inside a service station and the only cars coming through are local license plates, nowhere going anywhere. however we are at least inside and warm, not feeling too awful, and planning on trying to nap a bit intermittently before morning when we can try properly again! bread update: we have run out of bread. RIP.
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 10:15 p.m. - us: we're trying to go to hamburg, can you help? guy in car: we're going to dusseldorf us: oh can you take us to dusseldorf? guy: why? us: to drop us on the way guy: we're not going to hamburg us: no but drop us on the way guy: we're going to dusseldorf and so on and so forth for ab 10 minutes... 100% funniest lift we've gotten, language barrier and sleep deprivation made it even funnier
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 9:58 p.m. - 17 hitching a tiny lift with some very confused people - they dont understand why we want them to take us - to just outside dusseldorf !!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 8:32 p.m. - We've shot past through the Netherlands (15 mins maybe?) and then barreled down the Autobahn at 200km/h with a lovely couple coming back from Paris. Currently trying to get a ride from near Cologne.
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 7:21 p.m. - GOING TO DUSSELDORF!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 6:08 p.m. - We got off our longest lift. Thanks Maciek for spending 10 hours with us! Regrouping in service station near Genk, having to go bush bashing to avoid fee for using the toilet.
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 3:53 p.m. - We're in Belgium, the land of Tintin and waffles. Recovered from the ferry and now are ready to be back in the game!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 3:07 p.m. - bread update: having some baguette to celebrate being in France. But its now very dry and squished, 5.5/10
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 2:38 p.m. - SIGNING ON we made it to France !! After a horrendous voyage in which many plates smashed in the ferry restaurant and Raya may have thrown up bc of how bad the waves were. English Channel:1, Bread Party:0. But we are back in the car and our way to Belgium !
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 12:55 p.m. - After big waves, big delays, big contemplations to swim the channel instead, and watching aquaman with our amazing driver, we are finally on the ferry! Them waves do be looking big, our motion sickness (yeehaw) team members gonna have so much fun ... but hyped to be on the move, SIGNING OFF and see ya later UK !!!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 9:19 a.m. - Waiting on ferry in Dover, the waves are big so we'll have to wait a bit...
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 8:29 a.m. - bread update: we are monching on some lovely cheddar and red leicester hot cross buns and brioches that the surrey uni lads gave us yesterday 8/10 great breakfast
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 8:15 a.m. - After an hour of feeling miserable in Maidstone, we have found a ride with a Polish man (we are thrilled because Adam speaks Polish) over the channel and all the way to Belgium! Spirits are so high - Europe here we comeeeee
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 6:45 a.m. - goooooooood morning race2 !!! after a (not long enough) nights sleep we are all awake and leaving london - raya's dad is kindly giving us a lift to maidstone services. we are all feeling good but sleepy, and slightly dehydrated, but today we learn from yesterday's mistakes and begin the adam harrison rehydration programme. excited for another race day!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 10:51 p.m. - JUST TOUCHED DOWN IN LONDON TOWN - we have reached where we are staying for the night and the warmth, real food and dog cuddles are doing wonders for us. We are heading off to Sleep now, see u tomorrow for another hitchtastic day - europe here we come !!! xoxo team bread party
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 9:27 p.m. - raya’s dad pulled up to save us from m25 service station hell, en route to warm beds and dog :)
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 7:41 p.m. - shoutout to surrey uni frisbee team who were all so lovely and extra major shoutout to the absolute legend who shared his KFC with us and gave us so much of his extra food (including BREAD) !!!! our hearts are so warm from strangers’ kindness today :)
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 6:51 p.m. - we’ve been picked up by a frisbee team from surrey uni who were on their way back from a competition in derby today !! they seem super hype (one asked if she could be our fourth team member) and are getting us onto the m25 !! london (and raya’s dog) are within reach !!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 6:05 p.m. - Sue was an absolute legend, so lovely and was calling up friends who she thought could help us 🥺 we are now outside milton keynes and sniffing out our next lift - hopefully to London !!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 4:53 p.m. - we’re going to milton keynes - famously the most wonderful place in south england. a lovely woman immediately offered us a ride and we are giving her our free m+s flowers
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 4:27 p.m. - At services near Nottingham. Thanks Andy you are a legend! Bread update time: more baguette with brie for Adam and just raw baguette for Raya (still tastes bangin) - 8/10 tastes great bc we hungry. Hunting for another hitch!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 2:08 p.m. - Quick stop at the Angel of the North to stretch our legs. We reckon we could trad climb it.
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 12:42 p.m. - We've made it out of Scotland !!! De ja vu for Kira, this is her third England/Scotland border crossing in the last three days as she was in Sheffield for climbing BUCS! She can now do it in her sleep. Vibes are high, car tunes are banging
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 12:01 p.m. - Got a ride from a service station just outside Edinburgh, bumped into a rival team and said hi, met a guy in a range rover who said he'd swap us for his three kids if he could, but eventually got a lift with a guy called andy and we're headinh to nottingham !!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 11:01 a.m. - We got a lift out of Edi airport from Adam's girlfriend's aunt. Getting dropped off at a service station soon
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 10:16 a.m. - Got to airport - now we have to get out of it (PS not planning to fly)
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 9:27 a.m. - Bread update: First bread of the hitch - baguette with Brie. Decent if a bit dry 7/10.
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 8:59 a.m. - We may have been bamboozled by being dropped off in Dundee, but we quickly regrouped (Adam knows secret buses apparently) and are now on our way to Edinburgh airport on the bus !!! Young Scot we love you forever, going south babyyy !!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 8:11 a.m. - We're setting of from... Dundee?! We made new signs!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 7 a.m. - In quad and hyped to gooo! Raya was a punter and already forgot our signs