18 HOURS in theory! IN REALITY? Aachen to Glasgow on coaches, train and flights.
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2024
- After travelling with Flixtrain from Berlin to Aachen, I was left with the dilemma of getting back to Glasgow. I would travel via Brussels Midi, Charleroi and Edinburgh using various options including Flixbus and Flibco. On paper the journey 'should' take 18 hours, but how long did it really take?
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:34 Aachen
00:03:38 11pm at Aachen
00:06:29 Flixbus Aachen
00:07:10 Brussels Midi
00:09:53 Ryanair
00:10:06 Edinburgh Airport
00:10:56 Glasgow
Stayed in Aachen for a few days five years ago. It was a lovely little place. My first time in Germany.
Hello from Aachen 😃
Awesome video, really enjoyed that. But surely if you fail, they should send you straight back to the start again? ;)
I'm sure you would find a more difficult way of doing this trip
I don't think you failed because you set your stopwatch at 11pm but you didn't board your first local train until 11:36 so I think you should take off the 36 minutes, then you would have made it!
I was going to say the same thing! I was wondering why he started the stopwatch 36 minutes before the first train was due to depart.
I guess once you're on the platform of a train station at night with nothing else to do you can't pretend you're doing anything else except "travelling", so it kind of starts then, even if he's stuck waiting.
You could also easily walk from the Hauptbahnhof to Aachen West in that time...
I would say that scot never failed, as I think he started the timer too early, it should have started at 23:30 especially since when he started the timer he was not on the correct platform, had he started by the main departure boards he easily could have started the time later.
@@cdog252 Or taken the very regular 73 bus from Driescher Gässchen. However, that would not have made any difference to his arrival in Edinburgh, nor added to the sense of tension at the beginning of his challenge. However, he could have started the clock much later by taking the bus thus delivering his belated arrival within time.
Scott, please don't consider the stop watch challenge a "fail". You did very well. 💙 You deserve a quiet room and a large comfortable bed after this journey.
Doing an amazing job. Keep up the good work.
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Very resilient Scott but looked lots of fun. I admire your sense of adventure and ability to switch transport
Nice video!
PS. poutine is pronounced closer to poo-teen (a lot more emphasis on the o) in Canada - no confusion with Putin here!
I was saying the same. LOL
I’ll not French (Canadian) and in Australia and would have thought its pronunciation would be obvious. That’s exactly how I pronounce it although we don’t often see it here.
Hi Scott would be great if we could get through Sydney airport in that time normally it's around the hour or longer.
I love these videos you do and enjoy the places you take us to
Fun video. I was also born and lived for years in Quebec, more specifically Montreal. Glad you liked poutine. Can’t say I do but I know I’m in the minority. I enjoy your videos. They’re informative and well constructed. It’s also nice to see someone of my vintage on CZcams. Cheers
If the challenge was a fail then the vlog was a good pass. Thanks for attempting and thanks for sharing.
Awesome content! Having fun watching your adventures 😂
That's why many folks don't start the clock until the vehicle starts moving.
A possible fun idea: Kings Landing to Winterfell (the sets used in Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland)
I studied in Maastricht for eight years. Finished up and left about this time last year. Cant say I miss it, yet. Lived in Heerlen too. Think I went to Aachen once buts its very close and a popular place to visit for folk in Maastricht and surrounding areas. The train connections are tough I found. Theres commuter trains that can catch you out (Herzegonrath). Nice to see you were here. Enjoy your videos.
Stations late at night are very inhospitable :-( Great video thank you for posting
Enjoyed this vid, looking forward to the next one 👍👍
Yes, it was cold in Achen. Best to have gloves when travelling in December, January, February and March. 🧤
Another excellent well put together video , well done !
Good video Mr Scott,also I would like to recommend you to see Montenegro during summer months. I believe that can be a lifetime journey. Nemanja from Montenegro
To clarify the issue with the inoperable doors on the regional train at Aachen West: There were two large yellow signs on the windows of the doors telling passengers that the doors are out of order. They're always in English, too.
What a dark and spooky road to get a bus. Stay inside and get a big hot coffee. That was fun. I am sure you will do many more. You look tired.
I managed Basel to Shrewsbury by train in less than that and that was with a 2 hr wait in Paris and also almost an hour to walk St Pancras to Euston between trains. Easy!
Enjoyable video. You seem to enjoy night travel with little sleep - it wouldn't suit me at all. Keep them coming.
I love your videos! Thank you for sharing your adventures Scott! Have you been to Norway? I think you would have a great time there!
Any challenge that depends on Ryanair being on time is doomed to failure, but you came within a half hour of your goal, which ain't bad.
Great video Scott, shame you didn't manage it, but fun to try
I had forgotten about Aachen! Thank you for reminding me--I'll consult the SCNF timetablr.
In the 1980's I took the train from London Victoria, then the Hovercraft to Calis and an express train to Paris, ditto on reverse. I think the Hovercraft took about 45 minutes to cross, depending on the seas.
Nice relaxing journey, I enjoyed fully. Fingers a little cold oh! quick where's my umbrella? I like Glasgow Buchannan bus station, nice place. Many thank Scott really enjoyed that.
Scott, another great challenge with your usual practical and useful information. It is a shame that flix-bus, being a low-cost carrier, cannot have stops in the down town area where the Hauptbahnhof is located.
They do in many cities, its a little random. Some theyll stop right at the central station, others they are outside. Has to do with how far the nearest highway exit is and if its likely to be congested a lot.
Aachen West may be two trainstops away from the main station, but it isn't any farther from the city center, the train just circles around the center. On the other hand Aachen West is much eaiser to reach with a coach from the motorway.
RB stop at every station, so you can be assured it stops in Aachen-West (and every other station it passes). RE might skip some stations, but I believe on this line, that means it skips Aachen-Schanz and Kohlscheid, not Aachen-West and Herzogenrath. But honestly, you could walk to West, it's not that far out of the city, from the city centre, about as far as Hbf, actually (of course depending on where in the city centre). The shortest walking route from Hbf brushes the Aachen Cathedral somewhere in the middle, and is about 2.3 km. There's also a big university campus right next to West.
Funny, I just did a very similar journey, from Maastricht (near Aachen) to Edinburgh, but I chose the easy route and took the train to Eindhoven and then a Ryanair flight. I don't think I'd take a bus over that distance unless I had no other choice.
No visit to the Aachen Cathedral, no word to Charlemagne?
Its a 10 minute bus ride from Aachen to Aachen West Station so no need to wait half a hour on a freezing cold platform in the middle of the night. Also Flixbus stations are often at the edges of city centres to avoid the potential delays by getting caught in traffic. If you need to get off the highway, rush hour traffic in, pick up/drop off passengers and go back to the highway that adds a lot of time to the journey
Many flixbus stations have been in the city centers (e.g. Cologne) but there often was chaos and they now are outside cities (e.g. Cologne Bonn Airport).
Since when does a Paisley Buddy have "french fries"?!?!
I love the idea of a stop watch challenge!
Hi Scott, a very enjoyable video, and the idea of a stop watch challenge is a great one for videos. But curious why you chose that 18 hour time range, as you were in the airport for what looks like 7 or 8 hours. Is the objective to avoid an overnight hotel cost as well, which I can understand in itself. From the video it would seem you were booked on a Ryanair flight from Charleroi which presumably was timetabled for around 14:00 hrs out of Charleroi. So essentially you could have also made it something like a 10 hour challenge and still using buses from Aachen to Charleroi via Brussels, or even a train to Brussels and even on to Charleroi and still arrive in Charleroi before 12 noon. Given the time you spent at the airport, would this video not more accurately be described as a challenge on the reliability of the Ryanair flight schedule and the connecting bus from Edinburgh to Glasgow? Keep up the good work though!
Hi Sean, the Ryanair flight was leaving (from memory) around 10-10:30am, so I had to work backwards from there. The Flixbus I caught from Aachen would have been the only service giving me time to connect Brussels Midi-Charleroi while allowing 3 hours at the airport. I hadn't checked in at that point, and based on previous experiences at CRL, when security had been a nightmare, I wanted to give myself a comfortable amount of time. I also had to catch the last train from Aachen to Aachen West to connect with Flixbus to Brussels. You were right to say it was down to reliability, but if one leg had been cancelled or seriously delayed, the whole challenge would have failed much earlier. I'm glad you enjoyed the adventure, and glad it wasn't obvious in the video how nervous I was. Empty stations, dark streets and remote bus stops. All part of the fun!
You did it in under 18 hours as you started your stopwatch 37 minutes before you started your journey, why?
I've been in all the places except Aachen. And I mean the very train and bus stations and airports. I even rode on the very bus line to Glasgow.
Aachen ''Western Germany' Scott...not heard that in a long time..!
Missed by that much, Chief!
Very enjoyable as always scott
Well done brave effort
2:17 Amen!
Flix Bus are taking over Greyhound in the USA in January but I don't know if they will rename it?
I’ve always heard “poutine” pronounced as “poo-teen” 🤷🏻♂️
You really have to visit Montréal !
Auur…aøuhr…awrur….As a Dane it’s quite complicated to try to pronounce ‘hour’ in Scottish - like you do, Scott. 😅
Great video Scott
10:48 As viaducts go, those are quite nice.
Okay , let's try it again ; let's go back to Aachen and do that trip once more . Maybe Ryanair can get lucky and do you a favour .
Great video, great channel, great presentation, well done sir. You should be on the BBC, your travel program would be a hit. Looking forward to your next video. 👍
Now, malfunctioning door on British train would be regarded as unreliability and incompetence but on a German train, oh, how unusual.
Not too many airports gave observation areas nowadays, remember the Queens Building at Heathrow when I was a lad.
Huh... I live in Aachen and to be honest I don't know of a way to be sure that the train 100% stops in Aachen West,
unless you use an app or see a detailed train services map.
As far as I know all regional trains (ie not ICE) stop in Aachen West, but not all in Aachen Schanz!
A very good Sunday evening buddy from Alan in Lowestoft buddy
Not surprised you liked poutine Scott. If the Canadians hadn't already invented it, the Glaswegians would have!
I believe that you should have not started the stopwatch until you got on the first means of transportation to get back to Glasgow
A famous dish in the Isle of Man is Chips Cheese and Gravy. All the chippies sell it.
Like your video...a lot!
As a Canadian I can advise you that you can avoid confusing "poutine" with "Putin" (a dish best avoided, as you say 😁) by calling it "poo-TEEN," as we Canadians do. Poutine's also commonly called "a heart attack on a plate"
You get about fella fair play
Brave traveller.
Thanks. So many overnight trips! 😴
I would say that was a pass as you started at 11pm train wasn’t until 11:37 I think you said so well under the 18 hours
Why did you even try to open a door when you recorded the sign saying 'door not working' just a little bit earlier? :P
Why didn't you set your watch from the train departure time? Just curious 🙂
Love the challenges Scott, but why start the watch 37 min before you actually start?
What an odd journey.....you spent basically 11 hours getting from Aachen to Charleroi Airport which isn't that far.....and then far fewer hours all the way to Glasgow!
Why did you start your stopwatch over 30 minutes before you started yoiur journey (on the first train)?
Am I right in thinking that you would have passed through the Netherlands on this route???
FUN....FUN...FUN
Why didn't you start the stopwatch at 11:30?
Tip from a Canadian, it’s pronounced poo-TEEN. If you ask for pootin in Quebec they will direct you to Russia!
Do you realize that you could have gotten to Glasgow in 9 hours by taking only the train? You would've had to wait in Aachen until 7:00 am, but you would've been in Glasgow by 3:30 pm.
Hi Scott, have you visited M.C. Hünerbein in Aachen?
In Germany you must wear a mask in trains busses!
Shame abut the spoiler in the thumbnail. Would be nice not to know the outcome before watching the video
what did you mean with your snide aside about Mr Putin.be interested to know your thoughts and reasoning for them.
Poutine, heart attack on a plate.
Good Putin joke!
Honestly why would anyone? 2 hour by plane versus 18 hours in a stiff seat and crpy sleep. That’s sheer stupidity.
He's willing to trade time for saving money, which is why it's entertaining to watch.
@@mikeschumacher sorry. Been there done that. There’s saving money then there’s just misery.
@@xr6lad Oh I agree from my personal perspective. I'll do a long daytime rail/bus trip - but overnight I'm sleeping horizontally (either train or in a hotel room) unless there's really no option. Which is why I enjoy watching Scott go by overnight coach.
Did you not watch the video? He used a plane but as is always the case "2 hour by plane" is not an accurate description of a journey of anything but takeoff to landing, it inevitably takes hours more to get to/from the places you actually need to be at.
@@mikeschumacher 100% bingo. Totally agree. Night time has to be in a bed. Even if flying international to Australia U.K. never do it right through. Break it 1 night in a bed then continue. During the day fine: train/bus/ plane.
Hello Mister, what's your opinion in your FAMILY CHANNEL about the incarceration of your fellow citizen Julian Assange by the British and the USA?
Man with no home life on another bus
you should show more of the train and no view's pathetic😥
Great video. I thought it was going to be FlixBus that would leave you stuck.