'Walking the straight line' content, yes he's back

His Geoguesser YouTube channel is strangely addictive.

Never thought I'd by one to watch videos of people playing onlinegames, but there is something compelling about watching him try and identify the precise location that ab tourist photo was taken, him figure out which street in Indonesia a Google Street view image is from, or which Wetherspoon's a pin has been dropped outside. All with a ticking clock.

LAKES??? There is only 1 in Scotland...I started watching this last night and need to finish it as it looked good. I'm guessing the chipboard site was at Cowie? Would that be right?

Looks to be Cowie from checking Streetview, it's massive! Can't wait to see how they escape.

Not watched Geoguesser.

If you haven't already, you should watch his "How not to travel Europe" series. It's such a fun, light-hearted one, very different to his straight line missions but just as good.

Anyone know what that first abandoned mansion they come to is called ?, look quite a pile.

Dunmore lodge - very close to the Pineapple (near Airth and Dunmore) - that will be about 10 minutes in to the walk from the water's edge - an abandoned building that seems to have a lot of bits open...

Ruin is Dunmore Park House. Absolutely massive pile of bricks.

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/airth/dunmorepark/index.html

Factory is Norboard / Caberboard near Cowie.  Cycled past it many times and the chimneys can be seen for miles, but had no idea what it looks like inside.

Cowie used to be a pit-village for Polmaise Colliery, along with Fallin. The pit was first out in the Miners’ Strike of 1984, and last to return when the strike broke in 1985.  The longest industrial action in British history.

Pisser they misspelt Stirling in the hotel room scene (Sterling, pah!).

But why did they choose that particular line ? They started randomly along the Forth - neither here or there.

But why did they choose that particular line ? They started randomly along the Forth – neither here or there.

Of you watch his previous straight line challenge videos and follow ups there's a lot of though that goes into it, for example avoiding obvious impossible routes like housing estates.

@tetrode I have watched that one and it was hilarious, possibly the best.

Thanks for the link on Dunmore Park and imagine it would have looked fab in its heyday. Sad to see it left to decay. Interesting snippet on the miners strike too.

Guessing it's tomorrow night for part 2?

Camping in the middle of goml central.... Sauchie. Could be interesting.

Wonder if they got pulled up for travelling?

Camping in the middle of goml central…. Sauchie. Could be interesting.

Wonder if they got pulled up for travelling?

From the little snippet at the end of the second episode, it seems that they got in to some bother.

Nice little observation, he absolutely hated fields in Wales, but they're a joy up here! 🤣

#access

Thanks for that. I like looking up old pictures of these places in their hey-day. How it once was and hope might come again.
I watch the abandoned places on you tube but must say it can be rather depressing at times when you see a home left to ruin when its obvious the single occupant has died and has no spouse or relatives to take possession. Lifetime's possessions left to rot away.
Very human pictures and fittings, personal items and the rest.
When I was squatting, I'd come across such places, so many abandoned personal items. In fact I've an old enamel badge I've had since that time, I found in one of the abandoned rows of houses in Folkestone. A matchless motorcycles one, in an old box of stuff up in one of the loft bedrooms of an old house.

I watched one of his early missions a few months back based on its positive reception here. It starts off with him having to break protocol and use a bridge to cross a river. He then does his usual think of clambering over hedges and avoiding cars. Pretty dull IMO and gave up after an hour or so. Really wanted to like it having attempted something similar with a mate years ago when drunk.

Time for another challenge and he's kicking a football across the width of England in one go. He's accompanied by not one but two ultramarathonerists plus others in shifts. His encounters with animals is hilarious but, be warned, it's very very sweary. Sweary part one here:

Part 2:

Camping in the middle of goml central…. Sauchie. Could be interesting.
Wonder if they got pulled up for travelling?

They got reported by a farmer in episode 4 and the police told them to go home (somewhere above Carron Valley IIRC.)

Also got told to take down footage of crossing the rail line just after Cowie.