Every Once in a While, I Need a Day Like This. | S1E86

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The Hebridean countryside, what a delight!
Look at this
Can we go inside?
My journey began at North America's most northern drivable point after riding through Canada and America
I've crossed over to Europe from there. I'll make my way across Asia and down to Australia
New Zealand's southern most drivable point will mark the end of my journey
I'm calling it the big spiral and this is act for a lap of Ireland and the United Kingdom
All right, say goodbye to the black house village
Today's just gonna be a shorter day
I'm just gonna go south down the coast here a little it's just a chill relaxing day, I think
nothing crazy just taking the countryside here and
Yeah, it's a nice weather today, so that's just fine with me
iron inch house
Okay, well the plan was just to come to the beach here, but apparently there's an old village here that got filled in with sand
from the Iron Age and
There's one of the houses is still
still erect here I
Did not see this on any map or anything like that
But yeah, I see a house over there
That's just covered in grass
amazing
Look at this
Can we go inside?
Wow
Okay, I don't know how much you can see here
Actually, my phone's doing a good job
Okay, this is amazing
There's like a ladder here
There's an upstairs
It's quite amazing actually
Okay, so I just read the sign and as it turns out this
Particular house is a reconstruction of the houses that they found in the area
But I do see something up the hill there that looks like it could be one of the originals
So I'm gonna walk up and have a look
Hello
Good
Cold
Is it?
That's not too bad
Are you searching for something? Are you searching for something? Yeah
The wife rang a ring
For that bloody dog. Oh
You lost a ring. Yeah
Time I got she was sick
Yeah
Right
Okay
Was it the dog's fault? Yeah, because the wife was with a ball. She threw the ball. Yeah after the dog
Right around here somewhere
Okay
When she threw the ball she must have rang. Oh, right
Have you found anything else interesting
Yeah, well, I hope you find it
I was just looking at this Iron Age house. I was wondering if this is also an Iron Age house
I'm a I have different accent. I was looking at the house there. Oh, yeah, I was wondering if this is also Iron Age house
Well, I was wondering if this is all it was also an old house, but it looks a bit too new with this cinder blocks
Okay, there's a whole village here
Yeah, and in the in the sand I guess
Right
Okay, well good luck
Well non Iron Age house, but an interesting guy
Well, this is by far the nicest beach I've been on so far my trip
Gorgeous what is that thing?
Now I've just come across this thing and I have no idea what it is
So, what is it? Is it?
measure the tide
Some kind of tide bell
This is a tide bell. It's an art piece by Marcus Vergette. Oh
I've got this Airbnb booked
But I can't check in till 4
so I
I
Spent I don't know a couple hours at the beach
here reading a book a
Book that a friend of mine recommended to me
it's called
inside the belly of an elephant and
The author of the book is kind of local to me
From BC and Alberta
But basically the book is about
How he lost his brother to malaria in Africa
during a motorcycle trip and then
after that he
kind of travels down to Patagonia from Canada to
spread his brother's ashes and
Then from from there he he goes to Africa
With his girlfriend and
I
Have to say it's just quite well quite well written it starts out a little slow because it kind of has to set up the
story
But once it gets into the travel, it's quite good
it's a
Story about an adventure really and I'm quite enjoying it to be honest
So in inside the belly of an elephant is the name of the book
If you want to check it out. Oh
It's it's beautiful here, isn't it? Oh, there's a deer there. Oh lots of deer
All ladies
This is a cool Wow, this is cool
Yes, this is cool
This is cool
I wonder how this for it. This is really odd. Oh, look at that boat
So cool Wow, well, it's nice to have a kind of relaxing day this Hebridee
Countryside I guess
it's really beautiful and there's you know, there's not a lot of people out here, which I really appreciate like
a lot of these roads are just like single lane with these little pull outs and stuff and
Yeah, there's it's just in fact. Yeah, there's not many gas stations out here either. So
It was just nice to nice to relax a little bit and enjoy the weather actually and
And beach they have white sand beaches here, which is kind of cool. So
but I haven't updated the map in the in a while and so I thought maybe I should do that so
Well, why don't you join me over by the bed?
And we'll update the map. Okay
So I'm gonna try to do this fairly quickly
All right, so I had an Airbnb around here and then I just went up like this
This is where these oil tanks were and then I transferred from the Airbnb to like another one over here
it was on a farm and
Then so from that farm, this is when I started to try to ride off-road and I went something like
this maybe and
Hit the dead end and then I went by the the wind farm up here and then
Something like this. I went something like that and
Up and around and to Ula pool and then I took the ferry over
To the Hebrides. So this one I think it's called Lewis and Harris Harrison Lewis something like that
Oh, the bottom part is Harris and Lewis is probably the top part. It looks like
And then from there I went
up here to like the most northern point to that lighthouse and then went back down and
Then right around I think it was here
to that black house village
and then
Today, I just went up into this little
kind of
Peninsula thing
Yeah, the beach was up here somewhere. And then after that I just went back around
To where I am now, but yeah anyways if you enjoyed the video, I'd love for you to hit subscribe and
Also, thanks for watching and hopefully we'll see you in the next video. Okay. Bye
