Event of the Year 2020

Copen Hanging (Arrived)

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Updates

  • Feb. 28, 2024, 8:45 a.m. - Awake and arriving in Copenhagen on the bus!
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 1:31 a.m. - A partial night of sleep on the bus right now?
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 9:08 p.m. - Flixbus is moving ahead and we're along for the ride!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 6:05 p.m. - On the flixbus, which has just stopped in Rotterdam
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 2:06 p.m. - Emmanuel is our saviour! Our philosophical conversation carried us into Ghent, where we will be fundraising for a bus to Hamburg
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 12:44 p.m. - Our wildest dreams have been answered in the form of Emmanuel! We're on the road!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 12:16 p.m. - Avery, a lovely French ex-hitchhiker herself, aided our repositioning to better target the Ghent motorway entrance. Next update we'll hopefully be in a car headed towards Ghent!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 9:29 a.m. - Struck out again, couldn't get hitches from the first road we tried so now we've ended up in a lorry lot with drivers that don't speak English. Will be making our way to a Carrefour and hopefully Kortrjik from there
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 6:53 a.m. - Making our way down town, walking fast, shell gas station in the distance, do do do do do doooo
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 4:31 a.m. - On the train to Lille, hopefully will have luck hitching from there
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 3:34 a.m. - Team 33 A very successful walk to the train station, with only one police patrol stopping us!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 2:23 a.m. - Spending the night (can you call this the night?) in the lovely building beside the shuttle drop off. We're all on a quest to find the train station before the early bird gets the worm, because we want that worm this morning (inspirational?)
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 10:27 p.m. - Just getting off of the ferry on the shuttle. May try to catch some zzz's in Calais
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 7:32 p.m. - On the ferry now! Time to haunt every single passenger on here (we're so sorry in advance) SIGNOFF
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 6:15 p.m. - Just shelled out for our ticket to the final passenger ferry for the day. Very little luck with cars at the port so this will hopefully be a worthy sacrifice! Excited to cross the channel
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 4:42 p.m. - We can see the sea (English Channel)! Time to hitch a ride across it
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 1:16 p.m. - Further escapades have led us to a lorry station, a steep muddy hill, and the X80 to cross the bridge into Dartford where we can hopefully hitch a ride
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 10:43 a.m. - After striking out at the southeast train line, we're making our way east using the tube
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 8:29 a.m. - awake and going to leave soon in search of a sweet chariot to take us to Dover
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 12:28 a.m. - It's goodnight from us after a nice wait for some really good food. Off to sleep and will be ready for an adventure to Dover!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 10:21 p.m. - Made it to our refuge for the night, staying over at Hooch's friends' place. A rollercoaster day one but we're ready for a trip to Dover tomorrow!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 9:44 p.m. - Riding high into the night after scoring the train straight from Edinburgh to London. Just arrived at King's cross!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 6:36 p.m. - God (LNER) continues to shine brightly on us as we watch the sun set on His Majesty's rail service. We've entered the land of the king and have been granted continued passage on his royal vessel (the 17:00 Edinburgh-King's Cross train). See you soon, King Charles!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 5:10 p.m. - Our thoughts and prayers were answered in the form of Joanna. We took a physical and spiritual reset, with the return to Edinburgh Waverley we're now on an LNER service down to Newcastle. Our mental fortitude has never been stronger
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 4:15 p.m. - Trying out luck heading back up to Edinburgh Waverley in a car. Send more thoughts and prayers
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 2:40 p.m. - Out of the previous car and waiting at another service station send thoughts and prayers please
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 2:11 p.m. - Traveling in a car headed to the A1
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 1:41 p.m. - Hanging out near a petrol station
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 10:47 a.m. - In Waverley station!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 10:01 a.m. - On the train to Edinburgh Waverley!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 8:10 a.m. - Starting off in Dundee!
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 7:01 a.m. - In sallies quad and alive awake alert enthusiastic!