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Mugz on the road - Hitchhiking from Cambridge to Glasgow

can i say, if you have money in the future for a train, you wont push yourself like you will if your skint!
it will be a hell of an experience and something youll always talk about or remember... things like that cant come for any price!
 
Mugz said:
Really reconsidering even attempting my trip to Scotland now, has all fallen apart, have nowhere to stay in Glasgow when previously that was a definite place to stay, they were going to come to edinburgh for the night too on saturday so I would have been able to come back and stay there until I left.

It would be pretty stupid for me to attempt to hitch all the way to Scotland without any place to stay or any cash in the bank as a fallback plan if things go wrong. I think I will try something like this in the future, but only if I have a fallback plan. Do it a few times with a fallback plan, hopefully never have to use the fallback plan so I get more confidence doing it with less of a fallback plan.

It is just too risky to hitch to scotland, try and go to glasgow, and edinburgh, with only £100 to my name which won't cover my food, drinks and accomodation amongst other costs.

Can't afford to get stuck up there with no way home and no money, would be extremely risky and stupid.

Officially cancelling my trip now :(
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You'll get jacked for that £100 before you get a chance to spend it anyway.

Shiter that Stewart Lee is sold out, I'm watching Comedy Vehicle right now. Although to be fair, god is probably punishing you for wanting to see Phil Jupitus, that is a pretty unforgivable sin.
 
Aye Mugz just bring your tent and sleeping bag, you'll end up somewhere even if you don't make it to Edinburgh, all this other stuff is just excuses not to attempt it.
 
TheSpade said:
Aye Mugz just bring your tent and sleeping bag, you'll end up somewhere even if you don't make it to Edinburgh, all this other stuff is just excuses not to attempt it.
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^^^ i agree! you need to take the plunge! your already thinking about it so you know what potential it has! do it! :D
 
Say you don't make it to Edinburgh you'll have had an adventure trying, no doubt meet some interesting people whilst hitching and it'll prepare you for when you plan to hitch round the states,if you can;t even hitch from one city to another at home you're not gonna be able to do it abroad.
 
I agree with what you are saying spade and mrbuffnstuff, but I'm not going to be doing it in the states for a few years, and want to build up some confidence first by doing it here. I just think that the whole trip is too big for now as a first trip when I have not got enough money to get home if I need to.

I might do this actually, hitch to Birmingham and see if I can see one of my friends who got quite badly injured recently and is home bound, haven't seen him since last year and could probably hitch there without any problems and I have the funds to cover a train back from brum if I fail.

Got to go to Bristol next week for another appointment before they finally offer me the job down there, have booked a single train ticket there, will hitch back from Bristol as my second attempt at hitching in the UK.

I think I just got too carried away with the massive Scotland plan, if I had booked in advance I could have bought a national express bus ticket for £9 just incase I got stuck up there, but that isn't an option anymore. It is too close to the date to do that. If I had a bus ticket back just incase then I would still consider doing the scotland thing. I think it is just too risky when I don't have the money as a fallback right now though.
 
Fair enough then, maybe your shorter hitches make more sense for now. Shame you'll miss the Festival though, it's magic. I'm thorugh the last weekend of August and I'm excited already.
 
I was gonna head through to try & catch some decent comedians at the festival but by the sounds of it all the good ones will be sold out. My mate wants to go see Tom Green but I'm really not interested, might go anyway for the sake of it & hopefully catch some decent free/cheap stuff during the day.
 
Sometimes the free stuff can be brilliant, sometimes shite. It costs so much money for comedians to put on a show, hiring venue, promoting etc, that a lot of ones who are actually really good comedians decide just to play the Free Fringe or the other free festivals going on, saves them a fortune as most shows bar the big boys lose money. For most shows you can pick up returned tickets on the day at the box offices if you time it right. Sometimes if it's not quite full they'll hand the remaining tickets away free. There literally isn't a single place in Edinburgh that doesn't have something going on, shows in shopping centre toilets, a sweet shop, on an island, up arthurs seat, in folks houses, comedy delivered to your door etc. And then there's the dozen or so other festivals also on at the same time.
 
Aye it sounds like it could be good, I'll need ear plugs to block out the teuchters talking though. The only thing is if I go through I'm pretty much committed to seeing Tom Green & I'll end up throwing a pint at him. My mate used to stay in Edinburgh when he was at uni so I'd have somewhere to crash at his old flatmates pad. Is it a crazy expensive day out? Like booze/food wise? I suppose I could just stoat about drinking a bottle of wine, apparently the cops don't skelp you with batons & chuck you in a meat wagon for that sort of behaviour in Edinburgh.
 
It can be done cheap, aside from bus tickets last year I only spent £25 all day Saturday from about 11am to midnight on booze, food and shows. Drinking in the streets of Edinburgh is perfectly legal so I spent all day wandering around in the sun scooping tins of cider, I'd just buy one from a shop when I'd finished the last one. Was wandering into pubs and show venues, which are all packed anyway, drinking my tins and no one noticed / cared. Bought a few pints, had a McDonalds and a curry and might have paid to get into a few cheap comedy shows but imagine most of them were free. There's beer gardens and entertainment set up in Princess St Gardens, the Meadows, Potter Row and a few other palces if you just want to sit about in the sun and drink pints and watrch whatevers happening. Or you can wander the Royal Mile watching all the street performances and mini shows to promote the bigger ones for fuck all.
 
Sounds no bad. I probably will bounce through. I've not been to Edinburgh for years apart from a house party a wee while ago (but that could have been anywhere, could have easily just been a flat in Glasgow if it wasn't for the bus journey) & a Wu-Tang gig (again, that could have been anywhere, just drove to the gig & drove home).

Why is it legal to drink on the street in Edinburgh? Is it just Edinburgh or is it actually legal everywhere other than Glasgow?
 
Re. Drinking on the streets its illegal in Bath , in fact i think it was the 1st place to bring in the law.
I'm surprised that Edinburgh don't have a ban on it.
 
parttime crackhead said:
It's legal everywhere in England & as far as I know it's illegal everywhere in Scotland except Edinburgh.
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No way mate defo not legal In Bath n plenty other places. The law was changed back in the 90s down ere.
If a copper catches you with a open can or bottle they will confiscate n chuck it away Cunts.
One time they came up to a notorious drinking spot n took about 80 cans n bottles i think theirs a link 2 it somewhere i'll have a look.
 
I think it's legal in most places in England although certain boroughs of London have banned it, I know that.
 
Illegal in Manchester, at least in the city centre and a few other locations. They even enforce it too.
 
SamhainGrim said:
Illegal in Manchester, at least in the city centre and a few other locations. They even enforce it too.
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The Hobby Bobbies , Fukin luv tipping stuff away. The proper Jakies need it its brutal not only in the City Centre but in fukin off the way spots where no tourist will ever go.
 
Is it just Edinburgh or is it actually legal everywhere other than Glasgow?
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Just Edinburgh as far as I know, probably because we have the festival every year, the hogmany party and a load of other stuff that involve drinking in the street, makes it easier just to allow it all year round. The only rule is if you're properly drunk & disorderly and being anti social you get get in trouble and there's a couple of small area, like Tron Square where you can't drink.
 
TheSpade said:
Just Edinburgh as far as I know, probably because we have the festival every year, the hogmany party and a load of other stuff that involve drinking in the street, makes it easier just to allow it all year round. The only rule is if you're properly drunk & disorderly and being anti social you get get in trouble and there's a couple of small area, like Tron Square where you can't drink.
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They let you drink on the street at the George Square new year party & certain other events plus you can drink in Kelvingrove Park, not legally but they can't enforce it because there's fucking loads of people drinking there whenever it's a nice day, the cops just drive past every so often looking raging lol.

Glasgow coppers tend to not be too bad when it comes to boozing on the street, as long as you're not being a total drunken bam & not being too blatant about it then they usually don't bother you. I used to always walk from The Gorbals up to Sauchiehall Street for a night out usually drinking a can & smoking a joint, cops drove past all the time & never bothered me.
 
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