I don’t envy you that dawning realisation that you had forgotten the passport. Literally the most gut wrenching thing. In my early adulthood, my Father tipped me a nod and with a naughty grin taught me what he called the London Underground creed. Crossing himself, he recited “spectacles, testicles, wallet and pen” touching each in turn! (His, not mine for clarity!)😂. It does require a garment with breast pockets but…. Every time I leave the house on a journey now I remember the exchange with a smile of fond remembrance and in the certain knowledge that I have checked off the absolute vitals.❤
It's why I love this channel. It makes me feel more normal if someone else makes silly mistakes too. I hope your heart rate recovered OK after all that. Lucky Ms Hubnut helped save the day.
I'm amazed you can still string sensible words together after that. The miracle is not that you got there, but that you got there with Ms Hubnut and weren't cut loose at Carmarthen.
Seat comfort - You'd need a time machine to fact check me, but East German trains, back in the day, favoured the very upright church pew style, eschewing any form of padding! They also had a guard, escorted by a conscript with a gun, checking your tickets four time in the one journey! Happy days
Safety and efficiency aside those Hitachi Trains are a shadow of the old Intercity 125 for comfort. They always seem to spec them with terrible seats to cut costs.
Being organised Mr HubNut is key!! I knew you would come a cropper one day. Look at your unit which your missus is kindly trying to sort out! Speaks volumes! None of us is perfect though, so......who cares!😀
The Metro ticket machines at Gare du Nord are an enigma, no matter how many times we've used them, we never seem to get the right tickets and on at least one occasion, my destination station couldn't be found in the list. I have a feeling that the machines software operates the same way French public services operate!
You made it Ian and that's the important thing. We've all made mistakes from time to time but you dealt with yours very well indeed. Hats of to Carly for helping out as well.
Oh Ian! You start a list of things not to forget and add to it as you think of things. Then you cross those things off the list to make sure you have everything. I know, I know... you don't want to hear it right now, but as a terribly forgetful and disorganised person myself, this simple idea has been a life saver!
This reminds me of my interrailing trip a couple of years ago. I recall all strands of chaos that simply couldn't be compiled on a single page! Hope you enjoyed your time in Paris - I've been twice and each time, never had enough time to explore it properly
Can relate regarding calamitous capers of the journeying kind I have to use public transport to see my son, as I currently don't have a car, this weekend involved: Delayed trains Having to change trains mid journey Further delays of trains whilst travelling, due to the timetable being out of sync Missing connecting trains due to said delays Then on the journey on the way back home, having to pay £62 for a taxi because the rail replacement service failed to materialise! I've put refund and compensation requests in, and I'll wait to get some money back, but what a palaver! It gives me even further impetus to get a car again, sod the cost of owning and running one! Public transport is abysmally bad!
Oh god I don't know how you did it. I have been off work since March with severe anxiety, depression and agoraphobia, just watching what you went through almost set my anxiety off, I don't know how you did it but glad you actually got there. I must thank you for your channel, it helps take my mind off things and often gives me a laugh too, thanks again.
Hope you get on top of it. Sometimes I have to tell my brain to shut up. Anxiety can be hard to control but I tried to just focus on doing what I could to keep things (ahem) on track.
@@HubNut thanks Ian. I'm gonna try to get my TH-cam channel going to see if I can make it work, lucky my wife works so we will get by. My time working for HMP are done I think, max security prison is what caused it all, so hopefully I can put it all behind now. Thanks again . Much appreciated.
Well I'm glad you got there in the end. I think congestion on the Underground refers to trains, not people. They are so frequent that they can easily get bunched up which has a knock on effect on a lot of trains behind.
Yes, although congestion of trains can be caused by congestion of passengers, especially if they obstruct the doors and the train is at the platform for longer than expected.
Wow that journey sounds stressful you came through my town ashford Kent you would not see much as it goes through it very fast don’t stop here no more but at least you have got there safely but I must say it’s sound like it’s been proper hub nut style I hope you have a great time
What a mess. I just ordered a fleet t-shirt and a few stickers to help line the till. Hope it helps. My old Hub Nut sticker unfortunately went to the junk yard with my old Passat. The new one will be going on my ‘97 Honda Odyssey (Shuttle). Cheers Ian and Carly and the Hublets!
You're right about those seats. Fabric stretched over stone monoliths I believe. I'm not sure what us train goers are being punished for, but I believe penance has been paid.
I went to the big DS jubilee in 2005 and it worked like this: 1. Put fuel in DS. 2. Drive to Paris. 3. Convert Paris to the worlds most beautiful traffic chaos with about 2000 fellow DS friends. (Ok there was a ferry involved between Sweden and Germany, but it had beer in it.)
That's the trouble with chains of tickets limited to certain trains by different operators - once the first domino falls (no matter by whose fault), it all goes haywire and gets expensive to fix. Whoever never bungled a trip himself may throw the first stone - I surely won't!
Passport, tickets and money. Everything else is optional. Physically check all three regularly on your journey. I suppose a phone is pretty much an essential now too.
Hi Mr hubnut I'm a world traveller and I also as a pensioners use the wonderfull airport wheelchair service it's all down to meticulous preparation and planning 🙏
Crikey! what a conglomeration of barriers. Having got the Eurostar last year we agree the train journey is amazing so fast. We did not appreciate being kettled at Kings Cross waiting for the indifferent French border guards to eventually start processing us by having to wait to scan our passports , weird arrangement with baggage scanning and then having to face the actual guard himself on British soil. Found that aspect the most demeaning. As we were arriving at Amsterdam Centraal we got a text to say that our return train had been cancelled. Rebooking was our nightmare and then realising on the return journey that we had been waiting at the wrong end of what must have been a mile long platform and that train in the far distance was our Thalys train , we had to spend too long sitting opposite two morons who seemed to think sharing stupid music videos with each other and sticking their legs out was the done thing. Train journeys for us are having to cope with the general public with their steaming smelly bowls of meat based product or hour long conversations talking twaddle. At least you didn't I hope, have to cope with that particular cake based topping. Looking forward to viewing the tour.
I had a beautifully planned journey from Lancaster to the very South East Corner of Kent a year or so ago and I made the mistake of planning it carefully all the way. It would have worked well, but for the idiotic design of St Pancras where you have to go downstairs then up again to jump on a South Eastern train. When you can remember St P's before the makeover iit's all the more infuriating
@@HubNut I missed the train out to Kent wrangling with the ticket machine! There was another not long after, but the bus I then picked up from Ashford took a different toute involving a longer walk to get to my final destination! About ten minutes late to an Uncle's Funeral.
French people can be very confusing. We were in Paris on a college trip and being respectful, I went to put some rubbish in a bin, which was just inside a gate of what appeared to be a small public garden, with benches and children playing at one end. As I was depositing my rubbish, a smartly dressed French man berated me quite strongly for doing so. None of us had a clue what the issue was! Would he rather had thrown it o the floor, to join the quite prolific amount of dog deposits on the pavements?
maybe you used the wrong bin. like the one for paper and not for plastic? or maybe it was a private place , like the court yard of a school. and it is a big no-no...you are not supposed to enter a school court yard
I have found it similar, British "Public Transport" there to take your money, badly run business. French Public Transport, a system of trains, trams and busses to move people from A to B and it doesn't really matter about profit. Glad you made it in the end.
Sounds like France is like Italy!! Glad that there are nice Souls out there that see you and take you under their wing for that very short spam of time... (ie that gentlemen at Paris station) In Italy (or at least in Savona/Liguria) you can buy ticket in the bus but sometimes the tickets run out and that's it, it is YOUR fault if you don't have tickets... Where as in Australia it used to be that if the ticket machine was broken on a tram or bus you got a free ride... Not anymore... Damn online payment lol Wow, life is so complicated now days that we ahve to travel more and more connections... Glad you made at least!
The way my mind works, I'd have probably just given up, I don't do well with stresses like that, particularly with going into unknown situations that I've never done before, kind of the reason I tend to not go "adventuring", aside from cost that is... :S
Glad it all worked out; enjoyed the "Top 10 Citroen" countdown...the wrong shoes? At least it wasn't "The Wrong Trousers" (beware of penguins, dressed as chickens)!
If it wasn't this disorganised and chaotic it wouldn't be a hub nut video another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍
we all do silly things. I was in Beijing airport and threw out the boarding passes from Shenzhen. I got about 100 metres further and realised that our return tickets were attached to the boarding passes. i got them back ok.
Sadly this is what happens when you spend too much time in the chaotic world of old classics - you take on the erratic characteristics of the cars you drive and fix. There is only so much random knowledge that the brain can store before the filing system goes haywire. Fortunately we are not alone in this crazy world we live in.
I've lived outside the UK for nearly eight years now. I see public transport is still a complete disaster. Mind you, busses here in Mauritius are a whole other story. Every journey is a little adventure.
IIRC those Hitachi trains have reputation for being uncomfortable - effectively glorified commuter trains - and GWR for poor time keeping - Brunel would be spinning in his grave. Next time fly?
Or drive the Fairmont and park at St Pancras @50 per day, I guess about 110 pounds of petrol plus 23 for the ULEZ tax (despite the Fairmont being as clean as anything)
Go easy Ian as you look and sound really unwell (or is that just the stress from this trip?) At least you survived a MacDonalds as the meals are awful these days.
None of these would have been issues had you not forgotten your passport, Ian. All the others are things that should be anticipated. Perhaps you don't travel on public transport regularly enough to be aware of that. Still, you got there in the end. It's not just Parisien bus drivers, but all the locals who prefer not to deal with humans.
So the alternative is to ensure ever greater contingency time at each stop? No wonder people just drive. The points issue would have affected me even if I was still on my original train.
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@@HubNut Yes, you have to allow for contingencies if you have connections (and live relatively remotely), and you had a series of them. But that's no different from driving to the airport, or taking a ferry across to France. The reason you were so stressed and delayed was because you forgot your passport. But it looks like you had a good time at this Citroen bash. Didn't even know there was a place like that.
Ms Hubnut is obviously shocked and saddened to discover that Ian can be a bit disorganised at times.
It's a shocking revelation...
I get the impression that will be the last time he'll be allowed to pack his own bag for quite a while
I think she was shocked the first time she laid eyes on his unit... I can't believe anything shocks Ms. Hubnut about Mr. Hubnut any more
@@johnmiller4973never heard it called that before….
Nonononono...definitely the gods conspiring.... 🙄
"Hardest seats known to man"
Opel taking notes.
The seats on LNER express trains are even harder than GWR.
Class 700 EMUs are far worse than the Hitachi IEP seats. The wooden benches in some of the Nene Valley Railway's Belgian coaches are more comfortable!
Reminds me of the "seating" in some of the McDonald's; hard, plastic benches, aka: "Hemmorhoid-Helpers"...
Too right.
Pile drivers.
I don’t envy you that dawning realisation that you had forgotten the passport. Literally the most gut wrenching thing.
In my early adulthood, my Father tipped me a nod and with a naughty grin taught me what he called the London Underground creed.
Crossing himself, he recited “spectacles, testicles, wallet and pen” touching each in turn! (His, not mine for clarity!)😂. It does require a garment with breast pockets but….
Every time I leave the house on a journey now I remember the exchange with a smile of fond remembrance and in the certain knowledge that I have checked off the absolute vitals.❤
Mine is "Phone, Fags, Wallet, Keys". No testicle check but to this day i've never forgotten them.
It's why I love this channel. It makes me feel more normal if someone else makes silly mistakes too. I hope your heart rate recovered OK after all that. Lucky Ms Hubnut helped save the day.
I'm amazed you can still string sensible words together after that. The miracle is not that you got there, but that you got there with Ms Hubnut and weren't cut loose at Carmarthen.
Put this towards the cost of the trip 🙂
That's very kind. Thank you.
This is exactly my life whenever I go anywhere near trains 😂
It wouldn't be HubNut if things didn't go a bit HubNut!
SO TRUE.
Ms Hubnut to the rescue! A little lady, with a big heart!
Seat comfort - You'd need a time machine to fact check me, but East German trains, back in the day, favoured the very upright church pew style, eschewing any form of padding! They also had a guard, escorted by a conscript with a gun, checking your tickets four time in the one journey! Happy days
Safety and efficiency aside those Hitachi Trains are a shadow of the old Intercity 125 for comfort. They always seem to spec them with terrible seats to cut costs.
Long live the IC125
They are the most expensive trains ever.
Absolutely brilliant video Ian miss hubnut❤👍 well done for making it to France glad you got were you needed to go brilliant
This is Hubnut Gold! Glad you made it. And the journey. 🙂👍
Sounds like it all went a bit Hubnut!😂
ooof i feel for you! What a nightmare but hopefully it's smooth sailing for the remainder of the trip.
Being organised Mr HubNut is key!! I knew you would come a cropper one day. Look at your unit which your missus is kindly trying to sort out! Speaks volumes! None of us is perfect though, so......who cares!😀
The Metro ticket machines at Gare du Nord are an enigma, no matter how many times we've used them, we never seem to get the right tickets and on at least one occasion, my destination station couldn't be found in the list. I have a feeling that the machines software operates the same way French public services operate!
How very HubNut!! There are obviously more tales of woe to follow....can't wait!
You made it Ian and that's the important thing. We've all made mistakes from time to time but you dealt with yours very well indeed. Hats of to Carly for helping out as well.
Oh Ian! You start a list of things not to forget and add to it as you think of things. Then you cross those things off the list to make sure you have everything. I know, I know... you don't want to hear it right now, but as a terribly forgetful and disorganised person myself, this simple idea has been a life saver!
I'm quite certain Miss Hubnut is, well aware of what she has let herself infor 😁🤣
Yes I can confirm you look suitably stressed and relieved at the same time when boarding the euro star.
The answer is obvious: next time do it by 2CV! 😁
100%!
But he still runs the risk of forgetting something which is even worse when you're on a motor journey
I would be 3 hours into a road trip before realising I left my car at home.
Something goes wrong with that and your cheap ferry crossing or Euro-Shuttle slot is gone.
Driving in Paris...not sure if you want to open that can of worms. But then again, doing it in a 2CV migh provide some credit with the locals.
Ah Paris. City of Indifference... Love the city.
Sorry to hear that Ian, hope you had a great trip though 👍
Oh well Ian these things happen. At least you got to Paris
There were a few times when I thought I wouldn't!
This reminds me of my interrailing trip a couple of years ago. I recall all strands of chaos that simply couldn't be compiled on a single page! Hope you enjoyed your time in Paris - I've been twice and each time, never had enough time to explore it properly
Sorry to hear of these troubles Ian. Keep calm and carry on. Cheers
Glad you made this as I wouldn’t have watched a short. It wouldn’t have been Hubnut without something going wrong 😂.
Can relate regarding calamitous capers of the journeying kind
I have to use public transport to see my son, as I currently don't have a car, this weekend involved:
Delayed trains
Having to change trains mid journey
Further delays of trains whilst travelling, due to the timetable being out of sync
Missing connecting trains due to said delays
Then on the journey on the way back home, having to pay £62 for a taxi because the rail replacement service failed to materialise!
I've put refund and compensation requests in, and I'll wait to get some money back, but what a palaver!
It gives me even further impetus to get a car again, sod the cost of owning and running one! Public transport is abysmally bad!
Well done for carrying on, what a nightmare trip!
A good lady is the best thing I’ve ever had in my life
I would be a quivering mess early into that kind of journey. Well done!
Hubnut would have missed the D Day landings had he been around in WW2. Makes Mr Bean look organised.
Oh god I don't know how you did it.
I have been off work since March with severe anxiety, depression and agoraphobia, just watching what you went through almost set my anxiety off, I don't know how you did it but glad you actually got there.
I must thank you for your channel, it helps take my mind off things and often gives me a laugh too, thanks again.
Hope you get on top of it. Sometimes I have to tell my brain to shut up. Anxiety can be hard to control but I tried to just focus on doing what I could to keep things (ahem) on track.
@@HubNut thanks Ian. I'm gonna try to get my TH-cam channel going to see if I can make it work, lucky my wife works so we will get by. My time working for HMP are done I think, max security prison is what caused it all, so hopefully I can put it all behind now.
Thanks again . Much appreciated.
Well I'm glad you got there in the end. I think congestion on the Underground refers to trains, not people. They are so frequent that they can easily get bunched up which has a knock on effect on a lot of trains behind.
It does - I remember it from my commuting days on the Underground.
And yet the Japanese manage, with far more people and far more frequent trains.
Yes, although congestion of trains can be caused by congestion of passengers, especially if they obstruct the doors and the train is at the platform for longer than expected.
You need to relax, they said.
Travel is very relaxing, they said.
HubNut at its best. Thanks for the pictures of the bus station of Aulnay-sous-Bois. I haven’t been there since 2015…
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Wow that journey sounds stressful you came through my town ashford Kent you would not see much as it goes through it very fast don’t stop here no more but at least you have got there safely but I must say it’s sound like it’s been proper hub nut style I hope you have a great time
Sigh. It's always something.... isn't it? I've been down that road several times in my past 😮😂! Keep calm and carry on 😅!
What a messy trip.
Glad you arrived at the destination
What a mess. I just ordered a fleet t-shirt and a few stickers to help line the till. Hope it helps. My old Hub Nut sticker unfortunately went to the junk yard with my old Passat. The new one will be going on my ‘97 Honda Odyssey (Shuttle). Cheers Ian and Carly and the Hublets!
Thank you!
Mc Donald's! THE ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT!...love it!
You're right about those seats. Fabric stretched over stone monoliths I believe. I'm not sure what us train goers are being punished for, but I believe penance has been paid.
And they wonder why people want to stick with their cars.
I went to the big DS jubilee in 2005 and it worked like this:
1. Put fuel in DS.
2. Drive to Paris.
3. Convert Paris to the worlds most beautiful traffic chaos with about 2000 fellow DS friends.
(Ok there was a ferry involved between Sweden and Germany, but it had beer in it.)
That's the trouble with chains of tickets limited to certain trains by different operators - once the first domino falls (no matter by whose fault), it all goes haywire and gets expensive to fix.
Whoever never bungled a trip himself may throw the first stone - I surely won't!
With me it would be chaos theory. But you made it.
This is what memories are made. You will never forget this trip 😂
Tres bien merci Ian.😀
You still need to make it back home…. fingers crossed!
Oh that was an even bigger disaster... Stay tuned!
You must also own a three legged dog named 'Lucky'. Thanks for the great vids.
6:34 Ah, the Presidential Citroens!
Passport, tickets and money. Everything else is optional. Physically check all three regularly on your journey.
I suppose a phone is pretty much an essential now too.
I didn't take a single Euro with me. I was fine until the card machine at the Conservatoire broke...
Yeah, he wouldn’t have been able to film anything without his phone. Although I suppose at least he’d have noticed that quickly enough.
@@HubNut I always have cash on me.
So on the costs, how much was the Maccies?
About £15. Still felt like a rip off. The burgers are woeful.
@@HubNut they've gone down lots since I was a child.
Hi Mr hubnut I'm a world traveller and I also as a pensioners use the wonderfull airport wheelchair service it's all down to meticulous preparation and planning 🙏
This is why we love the HubNut channel, it goes so very wrong
Crikey! what a conglomeration of barriers. Having got the Eurostar last year we agree the train journey is amazing so fast. We did not appreciate being kettled at Kings Cross waiting for the indifferent French border guards to eventually start processing us by having to wait to scan our passports , weird arrangement with baggage scanning and then having to face the actual guard himself on British soil. Found that aspect the most demeaning. As we were arriving at Amsterdam Centraal we got a text to say that our return train had been cancelled. Rebooking was our nightmare and then realising on the return journey that we had been waiting at the wrong end of what must have been a mile long platform and that train in the far distance was our Thalys train , we had to spend too long sitting opposite two morons who seemed to think sharing stupid music videos with each other and sticking their legs out was the done thing. Train journeys for us are having to cope with the general public with their steaming smelly bowls of meat based product or hour long conversations talking twaddle.
At least you didn't I hope, have to cope with that particular cake based topping.
Looking forward to viewing the tour.
AND I wanted to be a TH-camr! I can hear that going through your head!
Sounds like a memorable day! 😄
Christ this is just like all of my anxiety dreams... 😬
I had a beautifully planned journey from Lancaster to the very South East Corner of Kent a year or so ago and I made the mistake of planning it carefully all the way. It would have worked well, but for the idiotic design of St Pancras where you have to go downstairs then up again to jump on a South Eastern train. When you can remember St P's before the makeover iit's all the more infuriating
Ugh! Certainly a lot of elevation there now.
@@HubNut I missed the train out to Kent wrangling with the ticket machine! There was another not long after, but the bus I then picked up from Ashford took a different toute involving a longer walk to get to my final destination! About ten minutes late to an Uncle's Funeral.
French people can be very confusing. We were in Paris on a college trip and being respectful, I went to put some rubbish in a bin, which was just inside a gate of what appeared to be a small public garden, with benches and children playing at one end. As I was depositing my rubbish, a smartly dressed French man berated me quite strongly for doing so. None of us had a clue what the issue was! Would he rather had thrown it o the floor, to join the quite prolific amount of dog deposits on the pavements?
maybe you used the wrong bin. like the one for paper and not for plastic? or maybe it was a private place , like the court yard of a school. and it is a big no-no...you are not supposed to enter a school court yard
I have found it similar, British "Public Transport" there to take your money, badly run business. French Public Transport, a system of trains, trams and busses to move people from A to B and it doesn't really matter about profit. Glad you made it in the end.
Sounds like France is like Italy!!
Glad that there are nice Souls out there that see you and take you under their wing for that very short spam of time... (ie that gentlemen at Paris station)
In Italy (or at least in Savona/Liguria) you can buy ticket in the bus but sometimes the tickets run out and that's it, it is YOUR fault if you don't have tickets... Where as in Australia it used to be that if the ticket machine was broken on a tram or bus you got a free ride... Not anymore... Damn online payment lol
Wow, life is so complicated now days that we ahve to travel more and more connections... Glad you made at least!
That has become a challenging and tiring journey.
The way my mind works, I'd have probably just given up, I don't do well with stresses like that, particularly with going into unknown situations that I've never done before, kind of the reason I tend to not go "adventuring", aside from cost that is... :S
This turned out to be nothing compared to the journey home. Then I really did nearly give up...
@@HubNut On a brief gander on twitter (I ocasionally look in), I saw mention of a plane, so, that's one way to deal with trains, I guess!!! :P
I'd swap your week for my week anyday as I sit in my holiday flat with what seems to be a slipped disc. Oh joy.....not ! 🥴
Well told, I felt appropriate guilt for laughing
Glad it all worked out; enjoyed the "Top 10 Citroen" countdown...the wrong shoes? At least it wasn't "The Wrong Trousers" (beware of penguins, dressed as chickens)!
If it wasn't this disorganised and chaotic it wouldn't be a hub nut video
another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍
Oh my !!
Surely you mean "Mon Dieu!"
we all do silly things. I was in Beijing airport and threw out the boarding passes from Shenzhen. I got about 100 metres further and realised that our return tickets were attached to the boarding passes. i got them back ok.
Sadly this is what happens when you spend too much time in the chaotic world of old classics - you take on the erratic characteristics of the cars you drive and fix. There is only so much random knowledge that the brain can store before the filing system goes haywire. Fortunately we are not alone in this crazy world we live in.
Oh the joys of travel. Imagine how it would be if you hadn’t planned this trip……..😆
Miss HubNut saves the day!
Super Woman!
Bowl of hot water with some bath salts and dunk your feet sir.
I've lived outside the UK for nearly eight years now. I see public transport is still a complete disaster. Mind you, busses here in Mauritius are a whole other story. Every journey is a little adventure.
To be fair, public transport in the UK is massive and complex. You only hear about it when it goes wrong.
As with so much in the UK, shareholders seem to be the priority rather than customers when it comes to transport.
“Hardest seats known to man” - that’s because the stock is classed as commuter , therefore hard seats .. they should be long lasting
The seats are collapsing
If it helps if you were more than 15 minutes late at Paddington you should be able to get some money back via delay repay compensation scheme.
In progress. Will report back.
IIRC those Hitachi trains have reputation for being uncomfortable - effectively glorified commuter trains - and GWR for poor time keeping - Brunel would be spinning in his grave. Next time fly?
Certainly in no rush to train again, though flying means you've still got to find a way to the airport - where parking charges are utterly ridiculous.
Or drive the Fairmont and park at St Pancras @50 per day, I guess about 110 pounds of petrol plus 23 for the ULEZ tax (despite the Fairmont being as clean as anything)
Happens to the best of us, plenty of days I've had that have gone like this 😅
Very stressful
Great Welsh comedy
'God's conspiring against me'.... Sounds familiar to me!
Think give public transport a miss in future and take elly 😂 things will still go hubnut though 🤣
Oh I really should have done. She was good as gold our out last Continental adventure, and this one would only have been 1600 miles.
Next time avoid stress... take a worn-out 2CV that you,ve just engine-swapped in someone's drive 8 hours previously..
My Dad always warned me about following smartly dressed Frenchmen ANYWHERE Ian
You forgot your passport! How very HubNut.
Go easy Ian as you look and sound really unwell (or is that just the stress from this trip?)
At least you survived a MacDonalds as the meals are awful these days.
Still not 100%. Have forgotten what that feels like...
It all went #hubnut a bit. Looking forward to the return leg!
That was even worse...
In many, if not most european countries, you can't buy tickes on the bus/tram.
What a daft idea. London has tap on/off on the buses. Makes it super simple.
Fly. Always just fly.
That all went very Hubnut
Ian are you familiar with the acronym SNAFU?
Murphy's Law at work here ...🤔
No it's not it's Seabrooks Law.
HubNut law.
@@HubNut 😅
@@HubNut In a word.
It would have been cheaper to fly or drive to Paris!
The way it ended up, it would have been cheaper to take Betty...
Too much stress for me. I'd be well out of my comfort zone.
Wait for the return journey...
not to sure ? wont do that again??
None of these would have been issues had you not forgotten your passport, Ian. All the others are things that should be anticipated. Perhaps you don't travel on public transport regularly enough to be aware of that. Still, you got there in the end. It's not just Parisien bus drivers, but all the locals who prefer not to deal with humans.
So the alternative is to ensure ever greater contingency time at each stop? No wonder people just drive. The points issue would have affected me even if I was still on my original train.
@@HubNut Yes, you have to allow for contingencies if you have connections (and live relatively remotely), and you had a series of them. But that's no different from driving to the airport, or taking a ferry across to France. The reason you were so stressed and delayed was because you forgot your passport. But it looks like you had a good time at this Citroen bash. Didn't even know there was a place like that.