London to Paris, from Victoria coach station to Paris, Eurotunnel 4K 

@@tonymazz9912 XD ....

It's a piece of piss. I have been doing it for years . At one time all over Europe but these days UK only. The actual part of driving a coach is easy it's the rest that is difficult

Yes, he is. We used to be owners of a bus touring company and there are certainly drivers and drivers

@@nancyhobson9710 yes as we say in my part of the world there are drivers and steering wheel attendants. He is most definitely a driver

One of the hardest things I have done is to put a 15 metre plaxton interdecker onto the train in one go no shunts etc . It was definitely a brown trouser moment ha ha

SAURABH DALVI haha 😂

And you could touch handrails

True

you tell me...

Wasn't this filmed Dec 2019? When ppl were starting to cough and there had already been a 'nasty' cough going around SE of England since Sept. I caught it from house mate who brought it back from business meeting in Northern Germany. Could have been precursor to covid19, who knows. The medical scientists are still trying to work the origins out. Anyway, not good to cough for any reason. Travel safe.

Well, left hand drive is the *correct* way to drive.

@@tmseh wrong !!!!!!!!! The British way is always the best way. Sit on the right , drive on the left. The correct we way.

@@littlebigman6957 Please excuse my Americaness. I still miss my '73 TR-6.

@@tmseh nice car . Triumph like the rest of the British car industry no longer exists . Unless you want a motorcycle

@@littlebigman6957 not really tbh if anything it's wrong in the uk

He makes it look effortless, as he does it day in and day out. But I have to say at first I thought he messed it up but no, perfectly positioned in to the train, big thumbs up to the driver 👍

A bus length room in and out !!! You would think that with all the space on earth ... One would have thought to make these entrances and exits longer !!!!!

It's his job

Some years ago, I made a trip Paris-Manchester-Paris in bus. I was impressed how our driver entered the bus into the train, with millimetre precision. Exactly like in the video.

no its not math - its sensitivity (feeling) mixed with experience - when I drove the truck with the trailer is same thing after years of traveling you get to feel where's your wheels all the time - the bus driver can do this even with his eyes closed - so no math here, sorry

If you like his driving then check out Swiss yellow coach drivers: the drive coaches to little villages in the Alps, on winding roads where cars can't pass, a wall of rocks to one side and a sheer drop to the other. It's breathtakingly thrilling.

Yes hahaha

And fernbus simulator

Mod bus

😂😂

@@AV8r_Chamz The bus is the same like in Fernbus simulator😁 I wanna play it again!

Welcome to London.

And having to switch from driving on the left to driving on the right!

The Offended Bucket I’ll agree with that, i was driving trucks on private land at 16 before I got anywhere near a car on public roads, personally I think it’s a lot easier driving bigger vehicles

@@GeldardsHistory me too but I shat myself a few months back. A 15 metre interdecker just got on without a shunt but I had to change my undies though. The coach in front of me went down the train too fast and took 12 windows out. ( It was a double decker) glass everywhere and a severe delay to the train

@@mgsee that's easy no problems

Wtf that was fast...

Aidan Clarke it did take 23minutes lol

@@c3realK1ll4h THATS THE POINT!!!!!!!!

Lol

U mean fro Victoria to Paris takes 8hrs

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I think driving on English roads with the wheel on the left side is not so problematic because you still have your usual landmarks in the car/bus. On the other hand if you try to drive with the wheel on the right, there you are totally disoriented.

It's generally very easy to get around the UK if you don't have a car; mainland Europe is the same too.

​@@MaMu-fv8uo, I'm sort of senior too, and when I visited Berlin, the city was still divided by the Wall and isolated in the middle of menacing (as it felt at the time) Communist East Germany, a.k.a. the "German Democratic Republic" or GDR. After an adventurous train ride through the GDR from Frankfurt on a sealed train with heavily armed SOLDIERS (not mere "guards") on every wagon, our group arrived at Zoo Station (infamous for the Christiane F. book and film, and famous for the U2 song) in West Berlin and we were greeted by the local representative of the youth exchange organization that arranged our trip. She was the wife of a very rich industrialist and didn't need to work, but she did that to feel useful and have fun. They were wealthy enough to have as many Porsches and BMWs as they wanted, but they had NO car, by choice. Not a single one. Both used exclusively public transportation, because it was so good, comprehensive and reliable in Berlin, and they preferred not to have to worry about parking, maintenance, etc. The fact that they were basically stuck in a walled city from where they couldn't drive to another place (actually, it was possible, but it involved a lot of hassle and red tape) also helped in their decision, but anyway, this shows how good public transportation usually is in Europe and how a car is much less necessary there than in many other parts of the world.

was the option available to remain on the bus for passport control?

@@ANTHONYBOOTH -noo you have to get off twice

@@BIGV710 TWICE???????

Well, I know this is kinda a joke but in germany flixbus isnt really that liked. It is a pretty slow form of travel and since its cheap as fuck you can guess how comfortable it is.

flixbus is just a website, with owning no buses/coaches.

@@eLtrois What are you crying about, I travel 140km for 2,50 euro with wifi i had no problems and it took the same time like a car. I dont get it why people always complain about cheap service. Just order a mercedes taxi when you dont sit comfortable. The same people who complain on cheap airlines like ryanair, Dont expect big things, its a fucking flying bus wich bring you in 2hours to the otherside of europe for 20euros.

@Oliver Eales well im happy that services like this excist, when one time i needed a drive (140km) to another city and i could drive with them for 2.50, comfortable and free wifi . with a taxi i would pay 500 euro ;) even if i have enough money i dont gonna throw money away. ( the travel was the same time like with a car ), And if you are so rich, im 99% sure that you are not rich of youre self, beceause with this mentality its not possible ;)

@@kamiun6279 Dangerous is politics of this type company. Flixbus have no bus, its only website and rent private bus in different country. Pay little drivers. At first sight, it looks nice, cheap tickets, but use brain and thinking. Low price at one side and anything wrong at second side.

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಗುರು ನಾನು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಿಂದ ❤️ From Karnataka ✌️

@@odaadu-4463 Interestingly, I am right now listening to this song-- Aalochane. Beautiful Kannada song!.

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YES,I felt as travelling in that coach as well.I really enjoyed the journey,and my respects for the driver.

India and Bangladesh tour bud drivers are crazy! Been on one of them and they drive like the brake pedal is missing

We do it regularly in a right handed car because work is in UK but home is in France !!

French compagny and french bus so yes

@@jasontaylor2929 Well everyone does it, if they would fire every driver for that then there would be no one left. Mind you, Flixbus sub-contractors have shitty pay for drivers. That doesn´t count as an excuse but rather an explanation why some drivers don´t care too much for those things. They know that the company is not going to let them go, otherwise it would be some of the passengers ordered to get behind the wheel.

Ok boomer

@@mtw227 jezus relax kid lol

Sure 8 hours to go and 8 hours to come back. At a weekend you arrive in Pais just to take the coming back coach to London.

COACH DRIVER

Amazing coach driving is easier than a car.

@@SEPK09 yes it is I can park a coach easier than s car. strange but true

Light work could do that with eyes closed

@@clivest-mart8621 buuuulllllssshhhhiiiittttt

Thorfinn986_doesn't_do_average when I did that travel the bus crossed by ferry. Did they change it?

@@irvsonsilveira Eventually they did, now buses go into trains for the crossing.

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Yes but do you really want to travel by coach to Paris. Life is short, take the train.

You can still travel from London to Paris by coach-ship-coach or by train-ship-train, on the Dover-Calais or Newhaven-Dieppe crossings. Takes all day, of course, but it's not an unpleasant trip in nice weather, and fares can be very good value as compared with the plane or high speed train.

I'd say both train and coach would be a nice experience

Train is faster

United Kingdom is a European country

@@SuccessUnleashedd I don’t understand how people get Europe and EU mixed up 😂 one is political the other is geographical

Yes its sad

@@Lee-ii9mk ikr I actually just laugh when mix up the two

@TheRenaissanceman65 That's irrelevant to the delightful irony I pointed out. The rest of the world has a greater laugh at trying to sort out the difference between the UK, Britain, Great Britain, the British Isles, England and I'm sure there's a few more split hairs in there.

Nah... even before covid... people who constantly coughed and never covered their mouth and kept talking still got on my last nerves!

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wow, you are genius.

as in four hundred quid for a taxi? :p ...

How did you travel?

Maybe you look rich to them so they charge more from you

Daymn son, which airport did you go to?

Did he go to Luton by cab...lol

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jesus martinez I think I had a stroke reading that

jesus martinez How? 😅

@@jonathank.8450 Less drugs and guns.

@@jonathank.8450 Greyhound is mainly used by ex convicts

Probably more English people on the Greyhound bus.

Khan.

@@vtecpreludevtec hhhhhhhh u are too funny

Can you travel without documents provided you buy the tickets

Maybe because he is left handed

I'm here wondering why the hell it's 4 lanes...or well, 8 lanes, that's 4 on each side. Must be a hell of a rush hour.

The word is, "there".

Hii

Indeed

Muito legal o vídeo. Sempre quis saber como são as viagens de ônibus na Europa.

Seen your Comments in Indian rail videos

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Everything is of better quality

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If you can't travel the world, then, unless you've already done so, travel your own. When you do, document it and let us know. I'd be interested in knowing what the county is like, from a local's point of view :)

@@misterjei Sure buddy 👍

Keep on dreaming

steven leitao Don’t bother 😏

steven leitao stay where you are

The same trains transport cars and coaches, another type transports lorries and the third type is high-speed Eurostar trains between Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and London all 3 types via the Channel tunnel. It's a vital link between the UK and the continent, transporting millions each year. And by the way, on the cars and coaches "Le Shuttle" there are single deck cars for coaches and large SUVs and double decks cars for regular automobiles, the loading of the double deck is even more impressive.

I forgot a couple things : if you're interested in the Tunnel, there's a very good French and English coproduced series named "Tunnel" (by Canal+, easy to download somewhere) with the first season being about a crime committed exactly on the border line in the service and evacuation tunnel (third tunnel running between the two main ones) and a join task force of multi national detectives investigates while using extensively the tunnel. It was filmed on site and every procedure and location is real. Also, you should watch a documentary or two on RU-vid about the construction of the tunnels (there are 3 in fact), and the way they work, the safety systems, the evacuation doors like fort knox safe doors connecting to the pressurized service tunnel etc. And one that features explanations about the pressure equalizing bypasses every few hundred meters, like evac doors and especially about "the cathedrals" of the tunnels, they are the two (or three, not sure) points deep under the sea where the service tunnel go deeper and the two main tunnels connect with track switches.

I remember when the Chunnel was originally built (early 1990's) and it baffles me that they didn't include a regular four-lane carriageway. You would have your customary waits at the borders, but once you're on....should be a 20-25 minute trip. I don't know how much time would be shaved off that way.....versus driving to a carrier train and waiting until the train was filled up and then leave. Is my thinking off on this? was it a financial decision that caused them not to include it?

@@furnitureconsortium wow. I don't know.

@@furnitureconsortium Because in Europe we're not obsessed with cars. The point was to make a multipurpose tunnel and to replace air travel and a big chunk of ferry travel. There are 3 types of trains (maybe more in the future) going through the 2 main tunnels. Tunnels are built this way: 2 main tunnels, one for each way : North one UK>FR, South FR>UK (in normal operations). Plus a third smaller service and evac tunnel running between the two main ones and bypassing the two "cathedrals" (the 2 deep crossovers) by going under them. The system is divided into 6 main chunks, 3 for each side, separated by the giant underground crossovers (nicknamed "cathedrals"). In case a part of one of the two tunnels has to be closed (like after the big truck fire several years ago that severely damaged a part of one tunnel) the system can still operate round trips using one or two of the deep underground/water crossovers. Search Google for "Channel tunnel" and "plan", "schema", or "diagram", you will easily find images of the sections and schematics. The 3 types of trains: - Two "Le Shuttle" types of trains, one type for passenger vehicles, single or double deck. Single deck for coaches, larger SUVs, utility vehicles, vans etc., double deck for regular cars. One type for freight lorries and trucks. These trains only run between Calais - Coquelles (French side) and Dover / Folkestone - Castle Hill (UK side) and back. The 3rd type of trains running through the tunnel are high-speed Eurostar trains running between London and Paris, Disneyland Paris, French Alps, Brussels, Amsterdam etc. High-speed Eurostar trains do not stop, nor have to wait, nor go through customs before using the tunnels. It's seamless, Eurostar trains exit the high-speed line few kilometers before entering tunnels but never go through customs nor stop before or after the tunnels. The same tunnels are used for either freight trucks ON trains (kind of open "grill" liked train carriages), passenger vehicles like cars and coaches IN closed trains or passenger high-speed Eurostar trains. The crossing always takes between 20 and 25 minutes depending if you're on a Eurostar or Shuttle. Cars, coaches and trucks loading is surprisingly extremely fast and efficient. The Shuttle terminals on each end of the tunnels are only for vehicles (passenger and freight). Eurostar high-speed trains usually have priority over the passenger vehicles "Le Shuttle" trains which have priority over freight trucks Shuttles. Eurostar service doesn't run around the clock, there's no red eye middle of the night service, but Shuttles run 24 hours a day, especially freight trucks ones. Eurostar trains run a little faster in the tunnels than either types of Shuttle. Building a "highway" tunnel system was once studied but the likelyhood of accidents was way too high in such a long and deep tunnel system. Plus, people having panic attacks while driving 100m under the sea is something everyone wants to avoid. For security, comfort, efficiency and practicality reasons they built a dual tunnel railway system. So far it has been very safe and efficient, transporting millions every year. Even during major incidents the security and evacuation systems worked perfectly. Ah, and I forgot: the middle running service tunnel is pressurized and equipped with Fort-Knox bunker like doors so in case of fire smoke cannot enter the service tunnel. There are bunker doors connecting the service tunnel to the main ones every few hundred meters. I can also recommend you to look for documentaries on RU-vid about the Channel Tunnel system. Having a 4 lane highway that deep and long under ground and water would have been a nightmare to operate and secure. Schematics of the Tunnels loop and chunk systems: www.getlinkgroup.com/content/uploads/2019/08/schema-tunnels-uk.jpg And www.getlinkgroup.com/content/uploads/2019/08/coupe-tunnels-uk.jpg Page with the two previous schematics and more explanations: www.getlinkgroup.com/en/our-group/eurotunnel/channel-tunnel/

Me too 1st I'm see this so cool

Exactly the same scenario with me. Expect the family were French. Bloody peasants they were all the way to Paris.

If someone is 15 mins late singletons or families, surely that is not the coach companies problem.... they should have left ontime....

@@ricksantos1580 Totally Agree.

Rick Santos spot on. you're late you're late don't make anyone else late and miss the train slot. I'd have taken them off of the bus and shot them. Bloody degenerate lower-class peasants. Shouldn't be allowed to have a passport or travel on public transport. On the flip side, I suppose yes the drivers should have just driven off. In case anyone is wondering, I don't mind the French - I was only joking, so don't criticize my comment as it was obviously me kidding. The French aren't bad people. Most of the time.

@@RB747domme BLOODY HELL LOL 😂

Which country are you from?

Tony Gareth It’s a great run. Pretty much all the high-speed trains are. They can get pretty pricey, but for those of us limited to Amtrak, the experience is worth it.

Come to Amsterdam bro

Yawha Been there. Came in from Brussels and from Paris via the Thalys train. Amsterdam Centraal is a very cool station.

Tony Gareth these 2 cities are absolutely wonderful. I am French and I have lived many years in both of them. I would recommend to go late spring or even during the summer months. Enjoy a coffee along the various canals in Amsterdam and for London the great English pubs. I lived now in the US but I miss European cities so so much.

London is a great city, I myself live in the UK (West Yorkshire to be exact) and have visited London twice - once with my mum, dad and sister in 2010 and once again in 2019 with my Dad for an England Euro 2020 Qualifier against Bulgaria at Wembley Stadium, the first time we went on the train (from Leeds) and the second time we went on the National Express coach (also from Leeds)

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Paris is one disgusting dirty city

The floor tiling i see on Victoria Coach station....looks the same as 20 years ago when i last visited it...the basic layout of the station, glass partition etc. looks the same as during 1998 ?

It's an out and out shithole like the rest of London

@@glenfrog814 Full of beautiful attraction though!!! (I live in London btw)

Linda Fukuyu You don’t say.

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Duisburg

@@mariusflorindragulin7802 Dusseldorf

Me too, me too!

Calais-Duisburg

Me too😀😀