[dzibead]

Check this out - hilarious!  http://www.reason.co...how/125264.html
So Mr. Cashless plans to learn French while walking around Britain, so he'll be all prepared next time.  
But ... ... oh, dear ... what happens when he hits Hungary, or Croatia, or Turkey, or ... or ... even Germany?
Guess he'll have to come back to Britain and walk around some more.  
What a nincompoop.

[Judi]

BillyDean, on Mar 5 2008, 12:53 AM, said:

I loved this part of his blog ...

"If my refusal to give up when things get really tough can inspire just one other person, it will have been worth it."

    

[WonderWomanUSA]

BillyDean, on Mar 4 2008, 04:53 PM, said:

I loved this part of his blog ...

"If my refusal to give up when things get really tough can inspire just one other person, it will have been worth it."

I loved the part where he thought he might die (of starvation?) if it would take a week to walk to Belgium.

He was already across the Channel (though he had qualms about his friend's mother paying their passage) -- has the youngster never heard of hitchhiking?

Anyone who hopes to do what he'd planned needs to be a lot more quick-witted, flexible, and innovative to succeed. I don't think our boy has the "right stuff."

[BillyDean]

I'd like to know how he thought he was going to walk to India, which way was he going to go?

If you say there was a possibility he could have made Italy, walking over the St Bernard pass presumably, seeing as he wouldn't be allowed in the tunnel, then where? Croatia - Serbia - Kosovo - Bulgaria - Turkey? And he thought not speaking French was a problem?

That just leaves the small matter of Turkey to India .... on foot! The last, and first, time I hitchhiked through those parts, admittedly a few decades ago, there were bandits all the way from Eastern Turkey and well into Iran, now there's just a little war going on.

If he managed to make it to Pakistan alive, I'd love to hear him ask for food in exchange for work.

[Shiver me Timbers]

Actually Billie, you'd be surprised - I and many others have done the Turkey/Iran/Pakista/India trip in recent years - I did it in 2005 with no problems.

Having said that, I didn't walk it - any yes, I wish he had got as far as Eastern Turkey, just to see what would have happened to him.....

[BillyDean]

Yeah, I wasn't very clear there Conor, I've no doubt you can get through, I was referring to walking through the area.

[BillyDean]

Another point here, of course, is where he intended to get the money for visas.

[Shiver me Timbers]

It seems his plan was to simply try and 'persuade' border officials of the nobility of his cause, even if it took him months.

Again, I would have loved to see what the Iranian border guards made of him.....