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Welcome aboard everyone and thank you so much for supporting me. Here's another offering:#3 in a series of throwbacks from "Barcelona to Berlin, summer 2016"  Having reached Nice, train hopped to Monaco and found little to do there of any consequence, I aimed for a service station I remembered seeing on the map, due north. I had little idea of how to get there or how tricky the climb would be, which made for an exciting little adventure.  It ended in dramatic style with me having to climb a series of walls (which I annoyingly didn't get on camera) and popping out right at the service station where I indulged in a life-changingly refreshing bottle of water.To cap it off I was picked up by two lovely, adventurous young French ladies who took me into to Italy. That night we slept on the side of the road in our sleeping bags where I awoke to a lovely view of the Italian coast south of Genoa. 

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Escape from Monaco (never been so thirsty in my life)

#3 in a series of throwbacks from "Barcelona to Berlin, summer 2016" Having reached Nice, train hopped to Monaco and found little to do there of any consequence, I aimed for a service station I remembered seeing on the map, due north. I had little idea of how to get there or how tricky the climb would be, which made for an exciting little adventure. It ended in dramatic style with me having to climb a series of walls (which I annoyingly didn't get on camera) and popping out right at the service station where I indulged in a life-changingly refreshing bottle of water. To cap it off I was picked up by two lovely, adventurous young French ladies who took me into to Italy. That night we slept on the side of the road in our sleeping bags where I awoke to a lovely view of the Italian coast south of Genoa. Be sure to support me on Patreon so that you get to see these videos before anyone else! .. https://www.patreon.com/geowizard

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jeremie

Isn't it beautiful? My lovely region. But why didn't you drink the water? It is potable

geowizard

Yeah looking back I should have probably let it run for longer and it probably would have come cold eventually. Just didn't want to get ill. Beautiful place!

jeremie

Yeah I understand, in France all of these "spots" of water with a tap are always potable, it comes directly from the source. Thank you for the reply and looking forward for the episode 2 of the lockdown mission!

Lewis Collins

I could watch this kind of stuff all day, love it man.

James Shuter

Great stuff Tom. Love watching a fellow Brummie in adventure mode

Limbo

How many countries have you been to? Gonna watch this in a bit!

Conor

random question - did you go to sziget festival in budapest when you got there in 2014? I was there that year and it occurred to me we could have been in budapest at the same time

Blank Face

All this content lately has been keeping me sane

Brett Foster (edited)

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2026-09-19 22:00 Mr. Wizard, I have a new idea - Street View Bingo in real life. After lockdown of course.
2020-04-27 21:03

HDdiamonds

Good idea I think that would be fun

Eilon EJL

It's amazing you seem to have had so much fun in Monaco. I remember visiting Monaco a few years back for my bucket list item of going to the Monaco F1 Grand Prix. Such a blast. And it seems that even though we had completely different experiences in Monaco, we have amazingly fond memories of it. I, enjoying nosebleed seats using binoculars to view multi-million dollar F1 cars blasting by for 0.005 seconds at a time at 150mph, and you, considering drinking water from a random fountain you found in a forest. I remember using my binoculars to view the amazing mountains surrounding Monaco and spotting various hikers way up on the hills. If you were there on an F1 weekend, perhaps I saw you from miles away using my binoculars! I think it may have been 2016 that I was there!

david oldham

Isn't that just called a treasure hunt?

Eilon EJL

Treasure hunts are for kids. Real life Street View Bingo is for GeoWizards!

geowizard

ay it kid! (im more black country than brummie) cheers Jim!

geowizard

hmm, not that many! about 18? mostly european..

geowizard

I didn't Conor! but i remember a fair few people bangin' on about it. I'd love to go one time. We might have been! I saw there around late August. If you saw a pissed up twat singing trouble by coldplay on the Kareoke in Morrisons club then that was me!

geowizard

Shit I'd better keep making it then!

geowizard

This could definitely work. In fact I know it could, the sidemen did it. That's where the guy who suggested (or you could say invented) street view bingo, robbed the idea from!

geowizard

Haha that's mad! I might have been up there mate, staggering about. I'd bloody love to go to a formula one race, especially Monaco. I bet it ain't cheap for a seat though?

Eilon EJL

Yeah honestly the ticket prices aren't bad at all, roughly the same as any race anywhere else, I sat in the stands behind (actually in *front* of) the pits and it was maybe $100 for a race-only ticket (I was working in Nice, so I could only stop by for the day). The most important thing is don't book a hotel in Monaco, that will cost a fortune. Book a hotel in Nice and take the bus or train the Monaco (10-15min ride). Or walk there in a straight line or something! :)

CJ Meyer

Tom would be great for something like Geocaching!