£100 and 24 hours, how far could you get?

[soulhalshall]

You have £100 - starting at your front door (in Britain) - and 24 hours to get as far away (in miles) as you can.

How far could you get?

You must leave the house with £100 and no pre-booked journeys. Could you get far abroad?

(I don't know whether the rules could be changed so that you can do a limited amount of pre-booking, or perhaps no planes, or something...I'm thinking aloud. The basic challenge sounds exciting in my head though.)

[bamberamber]

Some radio stations do this as a competition, it sounds like a really fun idea.

Personally I'd phone a mate who works for a travel company and offer him £100 to pull a few strings.

[Russ Greaves]

Personally I'd phone a mate who is willing to drive me a bloody long way without asking for petrol money.

[Tom Shaw's Fist of Rage]

I'd copy this guy,

Story taken from trueLAD.com

8th June, 2010
Rugby initiation at uni! Had ourselves a good old fashion prison break. told to bring only a mobile phone and Id/passport and had to get as far away from London as possible with no money. Most efforts got the the outer reaches of London some into Surrey. My fellow Center and me managed to get to Inverness by jumping trains and barriers! Got a picture of ourselves next to St Andrew's Cathedral with the days news paper and returned (in the same fashion) 24 hours later as fresher heros.... that was until a lonely prop returned 11 days later to tell possibly the most epic journey ever. From uni he: Stole a bike and cycled to the Maidstone sleeping in a bush on route, then train jumped to Dover, he then (reverse immigrant style) persuaded a random couple to let him cross the channel from dover hiding in the boot off there volvo, after arriving in Calais, he effectively hitchhiked 350 miles with 6 different lifts then worked with some delivery firm driving across Eastern Europe and ended up with a photo of the days paper outside the victory monument in... Bangkok! where he used the money he earned and a trip to the uk embassy to book his flight home!... Ultimate LAD!

[Russ Greaves]

Great story, but he didn't do that in 24 hours!

[soulhalshall]

Lads, eh.

Hitchhiking would seem to be the cheapest way to get places, certainly on the continent. I've got it in my head that I want to be able to get to Bari and then get a boat somewhere, but don't think that'd come quite within £100. I can't decide whether the rules should be that no booking in advance is permitted, or you've just got to go and see what happens. The latter option would essentially make it a how-far-can-you-hitch challenge rather than more of a geographical challenge.

[Russ Greaves]

Definitely needs more consideration and rules in place. It's a challenge for blaggers more than one you'd win with a cunning plan. I know a couple of people who could probably talk themselves onto a transatlantic flight without a booking.

[buddha12]

Most uni's do this as part of rag week.
My sister and her friend hitched from Loughborough to east midlands airport and then were smuggled to Bordeux in a DHL truck via Paris.
You always get some well connected rich kid whos daddy pulls a few strings with his airline and gets them a flight to Fiji or Nepal.

[Lurid]

I bet you could get to Gitmo in under 24 hours if you said the wrong/right things.

[Deleted]

I thought this was going to be to do with that more4 programme about disappearing completely, which looks fairly interesting.

I'd be torn between heading to the remotest part of Britain, or trying to make a break onto the continent. It would be an interesting way of travelling, that's for sure.

[corona61]

i'd have to leave this country....gotta be easier to hide in a truck for nowt going the other way!

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Jan 27, 2011 21:32:50 GMT @dozzercufc said:

I thought this was going to be to do with that more4 programme about disappearing completely, which looks fairly interesting.

I'd be torn between heading to the remotest part of Britain, or trying to make a break onto the continent. It would be an interesting way of travelling, that's for sure.

What's that program called Doz?

[Deleted]

I *think* this was it, although I never actually caught the name, only that it was on More4.

www.channel4.com/programmes/erasing-david

[im110onthem11]

To the pub 100 metres down the road.