Fantastic effort and great video. Not every straight line mission needs to be identical and urban ones are just as fun. Would like to see some more in this series! (Also great editing and storytelling...almost wish it was a longer series)
It's not a straight line mission because he isn't attempting to go in a straight line. You are allowed to deviate from the line a certain amount yes, but what defines a straight line mission is that you keep as close to the line as possible "in spirit". If you are just trying to stay within a certain boundary and not the line, then that's just walking. Still it's an impressive walk in terms of "real miles" covered.
I really liked this video. Ok its maybe not a straight line mission from a purists perspective, but I found it an interesting snapshot of a day in the life of London. Highlights the massive variations between the suburbs of outer London, the urban inner city then back through the suburbs again to the boundary with semi rural Kent. Looks like a massive amount of planning went into it and a good bit of endurance!
When I got into watching straight line missions, the trespassy bits were always the most enjoyable to me, but this is admittedly a more mature and sustainable approach to the genre.
Hello mate! No idea why this was recommended to me, other than being a Londoner, this isn’t anything I’d watch. I watched the entire thing, completely gripped by it. Testament to how engaging you are I think. Subscribed and look forward to watching all your other content. Cheers.
really nice idea and enjoyed most of it, i do prefer the standard straight line missions usually as after a while this did just feel like a stroll with Ally as only taking public footpaths kind of limits and obstacles
Love all the comments from the uber-pedants saying "it's not a proper straight line mission", thereby missing the point entirely by several miles. Ignore the idiots and keep walking.
Really enjoyed watching your mission, mate. Ignore the naysayers, they don't understand straight line missions or the layout of London, it seems. Looking forward to more! :)
To clarify, that’s not a criticism, just a suggestion. As you said in your intro, the rules on these type of missions are open to be set by the person doing the mission. As you are clearly doing something different from the ‘traditional’ SLM, you set different rules to GroWizard- always using public routes/land. I only meant by using a cycle, it would make it easier to do repeat runs to try and score a narrower run- since that’s the point of the mission (it’s not a walking endurance challenge). Good effort on the algorithm, looking forward to hearing more about it. Great editing and narrative.
That's a great question. Cycling might have made it easier, but I was limited by my filming set-up of all things! The camera had to be hand held for the entire walk. I've since bought a GoPro chest mount.
@@andyandy5978 Geowizard makes his rules up as he goes along, wanders well off his line, makes excuses, leaves the line completely and comes back days later. The last one where he was"dribbling" a football was laughable, then someone pointed out he was kicking the ball not dribbling so then he changed the title of his videos but still saying he's dribbling it in the actual video 🤣
Really interesting to watch. Really nice to see a straight line mission done while keeping to public rights of way. Interesting to manage a few rail sections too.
This is awesome, I’m London born and bred and love urban walking so I’ll definitely have to try something like this one time! I think the longest I’ve walked before is Euston to Harrow but that’s not even close to half of what you’ve done!
Yes, I too am still watching though I know not why but it's another YT enjoyable oddity. It seems to me that there's an awful lot of vituperative comments here from what I imagine aren't entirely happy with their lives conmenters. You know the solution. Go for a bloody walk numpties. Thank you fella, good effort.
Not what i was expecting. Geoguesser standard straight line is what we expect when the infamus straight line title is used. Nice adventure none the less.
Loved that mate, I'm doing similar this year. I've done the London Loop, West to East (Ealing Broadway to Woolwich Foot tunnel) now I have North to South (Cockfosters To Coulsdon) and diagonals across London next. Good luck with your next trips. I look forward to seeing what you're up to next!!!
Was hoping the brief popup at 36:48 would be the recipe for said Malteser Cake! Great video mate. Suggest the Isle of Skye for your next great adventure. See if you can make a line that passes by the Old Man of Storr :D
Second time of watching this amazing journey across London! Did you ever publish your final route anywhere online, so that others might follow in your footsteps? Might be something I'd like to try someday (or at least part of it). I'm also sure the delightful @JohnRogersWalks would be interested in this, if he hasn't seen it already :D
10:47 That would be either the Wild West Misogynists Club, or the Wimbledon Wombles Medical Clinic. I am not too sure since alcoholic beverages are served at both of those venues.
Some years ago, I did a similar south-to-north walk in Paris. Not quite a straight line, and a much shorter distance (less than 20 km). A similar challenge was my walk in Sydney from the Harbour Bridge to Manly - but keeping as close to the coast as possible. At least 30 km.
You walked down my road in Lewisham! (Hatcham Park Road). Was a bit worried on your route through the east end of the Old Kent Road as you came very close to a notoriously rough gypsy site!
Omg as a Londoner born and bred, this video was proper fucking epic! The editing was exceptional as well as the concept of having a 500m corridor. The execution was close to faultless and going right through Trafalgar square was so epic! It was also an incredibly cool idea to do it on the Jubilee weekend, such a lovely atmosphere :) I will now watch every other one of your videos and subscribe too! (also congrats to you for finding one of the VERY rare Mongolians in London hahaha!)
Oh also, I forgot, huge huge props for keeping it super super respectful and not encroaching on any private property! We Londoners thank you!! I hope this sets the precedent for more respectful straight line missions!!
@@sylvia9292 yes I did sylvia because I wanted to. If Alistair wanted me not to swear in his comments, then i'd change it, because its his channel, not yours. Weirdo.
If you need a film crew let me know, best prices in london. btw i thought of maybe challanges and maybe you do it against another person and first who reaches and completes challanges wins. if you need help in production and filming let me know
Nice work! Many of houses at the start of your video would have been built by the Metropolitan Railway Company. Unlike other early railway companies, who bought land for railways, built the railways and then sold off the excess, they wrangled a deal to build both railways and houses. Many of their old (pre-London Underground) stations had estate agent offices in them. They would sell Londoners on the idea of "moving to the country" and the people who bought their houses also became their passengers. So they made money at both ends. They pushed the suburbs further and further from London, with this scheme, until the counties around London rebelled and lobbied for house building near London to be banned. Ironically, the Green Belt laws made countryside stations less economically viable than ones surrounded by lots of houses and after the London Transport Passenger Board took over the Metropolitan Railway and was ordered to run London Underground for profit, they closed down the northern extremes of the Metropolitan Railway, rather than electrify lines going to places with low populations. Many of the railways out of London, that stop before exiting London were planned to be longer and got cut back because it was considered to be pointless to build stations on land where houses were banned. Anyhoo the TLDR version is that, if it was not for long dead NIMBYs, you would have been doing a much longer walk, as Metroland massively expanded London at a rapid rate.
Nice video, I know there are degrees of variance and an allowance for strying slightly offline - but how can a straight line mission have so many corners and non straight lines ????
Loved this! At one point you were one street over from my grans house which was lovely to see, especially considering I know the area from going there as a child.
You should have took the half hour to watch the parade and taken it off your time! Respect for the dedication however! I just stumbled upon your channel now
Bravo, and very entertaining video. I live in a very suburban part of north London and I'm always complaining to myself about how dull and tedious it is, yet from this video I can see that the vast majority of Greater London is exactly like this. Thanks for putting things into perspective for me!
Fair play, recently discovered straight line missions and although awesome entertainment, I grew up on a farm and not comfortable with some of the videos I've watched. This was a great adventure! Good job!
"You're meant to ignore private boundaries when doing straight line missions private! You think Britain conquered the World worrying about private bloody access? No Sir, not for a second and now we've succeed all to the Americans because Churchill got us in that bullshit war. Who cares if the Germans want to play Napoleon. Do as the Romans do. Rule Britannia." - Geowizard.
how is this a straight line? the original guy that did this thing actually had to stick to the line even when it meant going on private property, through lakes, rivers, etc. didn't even try bro
I’ve just started watching and having been to London once, I can’t imagine this’ll go very well. However, with those jokes at the start, I’m subscribing either way.
You have my utmost respect. There's a few places on that walk where I'd not have gone alone with tech out on show. Brilliant video though, had me quite absorbed. I think I may also find myself shouting "SQUIRRELS!" whenever I see them from now on, I hold you to blame.
great video pal well done on a terrific line success. your editing and commentary were always entertaining too. any more missions planned for the near future?
I lived in London for a year in my mid 20s but left after the extortionate rent rise after my 6 month tenancy ended. The problem is is that I lived in zone 2, Wandsworth to be exact to be closer to where most things are going on. I would not like to live in places like Harrow, Bromley or Barnet that are further out even though they are cheaper as the are a lot less interesting.
Trains are cheating! Jokes, I was just interested to see if it would be possible just walking in a day and by your times I'd guess not. It was interesting to see the difference between the outskirts and central London. Also jubilee street party's - must just be a London thing. Thanks for the video, enjoyed it.
It is strangely confusing as a Scandinavian to see Ø being used in English, puts my inner pronunciation completely out of whack. Great video, interesting to experience the dynamic of London area.
More people should really be subscribing! The fact that I have more subs that him (though hopefully not for long) is a travesty! This is true TV-quality content!
i came into this video thinking “wouldn’t it be funny if he walked passed a viewers house” and he walked passed my house
timestamp?
@@oddishthoughts no thanks!
29:42 (imagine I coincidentally got it right)
@@NorthamIncYThow??!
@@NorthamIncYTnah i’m kidding. that would’ve been really funny tho
Fantastic effort and great video. Not every straight line mission needs to be identical and urban ones are just as fun. Would like to see some more in this series! (Also great editing and storytelling...almost wish it was a longer series)
Well there are plenty more cities to explore! Paris next?
It's not a straight line mission because he isn't attempting to go in a straight line. You are allowed to deviate from the line a certain amount yes, but what defines a straight line mission is that you keep as close to the line as possible "in spirit". If you are just trying to stay within a certain boundary and not the line, then that's just walking. Still it's an impressive walk in terms of "real miles" covered.
@@engineeringvision9507 he should call it a squiggly line
do you know any identical straight line missions?
@@allys_adventuresplease do more of these!
I really liked this video. Ok its maybe not a straight line mission from a purists perspective, but I found it an interesting snapshot of a day in the life of London. Highlights the massive variations between the suburbs of outer London, the urban inner city then back through the suburbs again to the boundary with semi rural Kent. Looks like a massive amount of planning went into it and a good bit of endurance!
When I got into watching straight line missions, the trespassy bits were always the most enjoyable to me, but this is admittedly a more mature and sustainable approach to the genre.
Hello mate! No idea why this was recommended to me, other than being a Londoner, this isn’t anything I’d watch.
I watched the entire thing, completely gripped by it.
Testament to how engaging you are I think.
Subscribed and look forward to watching all your other content.
Cheers.
Are we going to get more of these adventures? The straight-line mission genre is amazing to see different places.
Absolutely - I have a more traditional mission already planned for October (although my editing turnaround is quite slow atm).
@@allys_adventures No worries, just take your time and the views will come, keep up the good work, this was a great first video.
really nice idea and enjoyed most of it, i do prefer the standard straight line missions usually as after a while this did just feel like a stroll with Ally as only taking public footpaths kind of limits and obstacles
Great video. I'd love to hear the details of the algorithm you came up with to find the path and what you took into account to choose the line.
Love all the comments from the uber-pedants saying "it's not a proper straight line mission", thereby missing the point entirely by several miles. Ignore the idiots and keep walking.
Really enjoyed watching your mission, mate. Ignore the naysayers, they don't understand straight line missions or the layout of London, it seems. Looking forward to more! :)
Mate good effort, but if you are sticking to paths and roads, why didn’t you cycle it??
To clarify, that’s not a criticism, just a suggestion. As you said in your intro, the rules on these type of missions are open to be set by the person doing the mission. As you are clearly doing something different from the ‘traditional’ SLM, you set different rules to GroWizard- always using public routes/land. I only meant by using a cycle, it would make it easier to do repeat runs to try and score a narrower run- since that’s the point of the mission (it’s not a walking endurance challenge). Good effort on the algorithm, looking forward to hearing more about it. Great editing and narrative.
*GeoWizard
That's a great question. Cycling might have made it easier, but I was limited by my filming set-up of all things! The camera had to be hand held for the entire walk.
I've since bought a GoPro chest mount.
That's wot I was thinking
@@andyandy5978 Geowizard makes his rules up as he goes along, wanders well off his line, makes excuses, leaves the line completely and comes back days later. The last one where he was"dribbling" a football was laughable, then someone pointed out he was kicking the ball not dribbling so then he changed the title of his videos but still saying he's dribbling it in the actual video 🤣
Really interesting to watch. Really nice to see a straight line mission done while keeping to public rights of way. Interesting to manage a few rail sections too.
This is awesome, I’m London born and bred and love urban walking so I’ll definitely have to try something like this one time! I think the longest I’ve walked before is Euston to Harrow but that’s not even close to half of what you’ve done!
Yes to obscure Monty Python references!
Glad they didn't go unnoticed!
Yes, I too am still watching though I know not why but it's another YT enjoyable oddity.
It seems to me that there's an awful lot of vituperative comments here from what I imagine aren't entirely happy with their lives conmenters.
You know the solution.
Go for a bloody walk numpties.
Thank you fella, good effort.
Be careful.. this is how forest gump got started
10:50 Wombles with macular conditions.
Not what i was expecting. Geoguesser standard straight line is what we expect when the infamus straight line title is used. Nice adventure none the less.
Train *shaking my head*
Big fan of straight line missions (geowizard), very happy to have found another.
its a zig zag mission, but a this makes me want to try it more. The other stuff looks too stressful
Fascinating. Didn't pass my house but did pass a house like the one I grew up in. Distinctive. Only built in South London.
You walked straight passed my house in Pinner! 😃
Loved that mate, I'm doing similar this year. I've done the London Loop, West to East (Ealing Broadway to Woolwich Foot tunnel) now I have North to South (Cockfosters To Coulsdon) and diagonals across London next. Good luck with your next trips. I look forward to seeing what you're up to next!!!
An interesting comparison of the different parts of London.
It’s Willy Wonkas Medical Centre
Wow, 76,203 llamas (If you include the 14 Guanacos) helping make that malteser cake! That's a lot of Llamas!
Was hoping the brief popup at 36:48 would be the recipe for said Malteser Cake! Great video mate. Suggest the Isle of Skye for your next great adventure. See if you can make a line that passes by the Old Man of Storr :D
Second time of watching this amazing journey across London!
Did you ever publish your final route anywhere online, so that others might follow in your footsteps?
Might be something I'd like to try someday (or at least part of it).
I'm also sure the delightful @JohnRogersWalks would be interested in this, if he hasn't seen it already :D
I heard of the actor Brian Cox first because of _Rushmore_ and later _Zodiac._ And because I'm American.
10:47 That would be either the Wild West Misogynists Club, or the Wimbledon Wombles Medical Clinic. I am not too sure since alcoholic beverages are served at both of those venues.
That's mad. My feet would be in pieces. Good job
Why did I hold my breath the whole time 20:05
Some years ago, I did a similar south-to-north walk in Paris. Not quite a straight line, and a much shorter distance (less than 20 km). A similar challenge was my walk in Sydney from the Harbour Bridge to Manly - but keeping as close to the coast as possible. At least 30 km.
Bing bing!
You walked down my road in Lewisham! (Hatcham Park Road). Was a bit worried on your route through the east end of the Old Kent Road as you came very close to a notoriously rough gypsy site!
Omg as a Londoner born and bred, this video was proper fucking epic! The editing was exceptional as well as the concept of having a 500m corridor. The execution was close to faultless and going right through Trafalgar square was so epic! It was also an incredibly cool idea to do it on the Jubilee weekend, such a lovely atmosphere :) I will now watch every other one of your videos and subscribe too!
(also congrats to you for finding one of the VERY rare Mongolians in London hahaha!)
Oh also, I forgot, huge huge props for keeping it super super respectful and not encroaching on any private property! We Londoners thank you!! I hope this sets the precedent for more respectful straight line missions!!
@@Nooticus did u have to swear and ruin your comment.
@@sylvia9292 yes I did sylvia because I wanted to. If Alistair wanted me not to swear in his comments, then i'd change it, because its his channel, not yours. Weirdo.
@@Nooticus She's a weirdo because she calls you out for swearing? I should say she just has much higher standards than you do.
@@sylvia9292 Yes, he did, because he is clearly a weak and insecure individual who thinks using bad language makes him seem awesome to others.
If you need a film crew let me know, best prices in london. btw i thought of maybe challanges and maybe you do it against another person and first who reaches and completes challanges wins. if you need help in production and filming let me know
Nice work! Many of houses at the start of your video would have been built by the Metropolitan Railway Company. Unlike other early railway companies, who bought land for railways, built the railways and then sold off the excess, they wrangled a deal to build both railways and houses. Many of their old (pre-London Underground) stations had estate agent offices in them. They would sell Londoners on the idea of "moving to the country" and the people who bought their houses also became their passengers. So they made money at both ends.
They pushed the suburbs further and further from London, with this scheme, until the counties around London rebelled and lobbied for house building near London to be banned.
Ironically, the Green Belt laws made countryside stations less economically viable than ones surrounded by lots of houses and after the London Transport Passenger Board took over the Metropolitan Railway and was ordered to run London Underground for profit, they closed down the northern extremes of the Metropolitan Railway, rather than electrify lines going to places with low populations.
Many of the railways out of London, that stop before exiting London were planned to be longer and got cut back because it was considered to be pointless to build stations on land where houses were banned.
Anyhoo the TLDR version is that, if it was not for long dead NIMBYs, you would have been doing a much longer walk, as Metroland massively expanded London at a rapid rate.
Nice video, I know there are degrees of variance and an allowance for strying slightly offline - but how can a straight line mission have so many corners and non straight lines ????
Loved this! At one point you were one street over from my grans house which was lovely to see, especially considering I know the area from going there as a child.
You should have took the half hour to watch the parade and taken it off your time! Respect for the dedication however! I just stumbled upon your channel now
What a crazy idea. Love it!
To the naysayers wanting him to trespass...get a life or better still...go and trespass yourself
music a bit loud at start
It’s a shame you didn’t give any information as to what towns you were walking through 🤷♂️
Bravo, and very entertaining video. I live in a very suburban part of north London and I'm always complaining to myself about how dull and tedious it is, yet from this video I can see that the vast majority of Greater London is exactly like this. Thanks for putting things into perspective for me!
interesting take on a straight line mission - noice!
haha the intro is incredible, keep this up!
What kept me watching was your humour right from the off, you made me chuckle quite a bit :D Really enjoyed the video!
video on the code for the corridor checker?
Ignore me, just watched the python video! Amazing stuff
Someone should do straight line across City of London. I think platinum is possible.
Really nice video! Waiting for more episodes 💃
Fair play, recently discovered straight line missions and although awesome entertainment, I grew up on a farm and not comfortable with some of the videos I've watched. This was a great adventure! Good job!
"You're meant to ignore private boundaries when doing straight line missions private! You think Britain conquered the World worrying about private bloody access? No Sir, not for a second and now we've succeed all to the Americans because Churchill got us in that bullshit war. Who cares if the Germans want to play Napoleon. Do as the Romans do. Rule Britannia." - Geowizard.
how is this a straight line? the original guy that did this thing actually had to stick to the line even when it meant going on private property, through lakes, rivers, etc. didn't even try bro
27:00 wow that brings back memories, I used to live there 20 years ago 😄
Solid effort, and an interesting take on an urban version of the straight line mission. Definitely keen to hear more about the algorithm you used
No it isn't. He took a train.
Awesome mission, a straight line in my book 🙂
I’ve just started watching and having been to London once, I can’t imagine this’ll go very well. However, with those jokes at the start, I’m subscribing either way.
stopped watching as soon as you caught the underground.
How many steps did you get in that 24 hour period?
1:37 You just walked passed my old house.
A great twist on the straight line mission
Wow I wouldn't even want to drive that as I know it would take ages. Great effort.
Just follow the Uxbridge road mate
straight line 'mission' hmmm - relaxing walk across london, nice video though :)
randomly came across this video and i rreakky really enjoyed it. cant wait to see more
I used to have an allotment at @8:41
wow cool man. I want to do this in my own city too😄(The Hague)
As usual, I've no idea how this popped up but it did, thankfully. Good stuff!
underrated! I love the urban setting
You have my utmost respect.
There's a few places on that walk where I'd not have gone alone with tech out on show.
Brilliant video though, had me quite absorbed.
I think I may also find myself shouting "SQUIRRELS!" whenever I see them from now on, I hold you to blame.
the most dangerous straight line mission of them all
great video pal well done on a terrific line success. your editing and commentary were always entertaining too. any more missions planned for the near future?
Congrats on completing the walk, and on the algorithm-interesting!
Wembley Working Mens Club
Not for me, but I watched a part of it. Cool to see London from a different view!
you know your middle class when you dont even know what a workingmans club is.
I lived in London for a year in my mid 20s but left after the extortionate rent rise after my 6 month tenancy ended. The problem is is that I lived in zone 2, Wandsworth to be exact to be closer to where most things are going on. I would not like to live in places like Harrow, Bromley or Barnet that are further out even though they are cheaper as the are a lot less interesting.
Yes but you have relative quick access to central London
Congratulations on your achievement! Nice video as well, thank you!
GeoWizard has entered the chat
Nice little Monty Python references there.
now do it moonwalking
Did you do this whole journey with no Earphones? Crazy man 🤣🤣🤣
Not everyone is conditioned to need music in their ear the whole time
I for one wouldn't walk through a major city deliberately depriving myself of one of my crucial survival senses.
I'm confused. How is this a straight line mission? It's just a walk in London 😂 I feel robbed of my time
new sub here! love the video! very brave to do it in london!
He's just walking along public roads and footpaths, mostly through nice suburbs, what's the danger?
@@Dan200 London can be a bit stabby. I almost got attacked by a group of 4 or 5 young 'gentlemen' on a train in Lewisham, merely for being white.
@@nickbrown5457 puddy hole
So many Llamas
Straight line? Not even a single bit.
Effort put in the mission, filming editing, etc? Yes, a Lot
Enjoyable? Very much so.
👍👍
A loose end 😂
bing bing Squirrels ! Ive subscribed as this was very enjoyable, will watch your Cardiff one next.
Trains are cheating! Jokes, I was just interested to see if it would be possible just walking in a day and by your times I'd guess not.
It was interesting to see the difference between the outskirts and central London. Also jubilee street party's - must just be a London thing. Thanks for the video, enjoyed it.
I enjoyed this different take on a straight line mission. Keep up the good work
It is strangely confusing as a Scandinavian to see Ø being used in English, puts my inner pronunciation completely out of whack. Great video, interesting to experience the dynamic of London area.
More people should really be subscribing! The fact that I have more subs that him (though hopefully not for long) is a travesty! This is true TV-quality content!
Music was too loud on this I couldn't hear your speech
Great effort! I feel like we're twins as I also have the Vivoactive 3 watch and Adrenaline GTS 22 shoes haha.
This is something for me to keep in mind, as a future project. Though I'd have to do it over several days. 🙂
Excellent. A really fun video, and nicely edited. 38 miles of walking - wow! But how did you manage all those llamas?
NGL it's nice that you didnt break the law but it made for a really boring video :D
Thanks for walking past my house!
Music is a little loud during the intro