Comments on: Mark Boyle: Trip to walk from Britain to India fails

By: Nerv03

Nerv03 — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:52:20 +0000

I don’t see how this is a good idea at all. I get the off the grid thing, eating food that you have grown, being vegan, I like the idea of self reliance and even the idea of not using money or feeding it into a system that is truly turning out to be evil. but relying on others defeats the whole point, he still is using money and materials from the society he doesnt like he is just relying on other people’s work and other people’s money. he really is just a really interesting glorified freeloading bum which is not that revolutionary there are lots of interesting bums in the world.

By: Eta

Eta — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:40:42 +0000

I am proud with Him because he did something different to show what the life value for Him and he tried to change this world start from his self.its Great lesson we shold adopt to help Us make a better life.

By: Antonio Martinez

Antonio Martinez — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:23:40 +0000

Hello……

My name is Antonio and i live in mexico city.Sorry about my english.
The motive of this letter is to try to get in contact whit Mark Boyle.I´m interesting in his life whit out money,
´cos i have a dream of this world,and in my dream we don´t have to use money.
The money is the seekness of this world.The economy was maded,be cos we think the world will gave us everiting we need.
But that is a lie,we don´t have enymore watter,we don´t have wood,ore food,and it´s a shame for me see people dyíng for the money.
It´s a shame how we kill this world just for a few coin´s,or power.
So…….i like to know how is he goi´ng whitout money,and ask him if he know´s some people who think or fell
the same way about this
world.
Sincerely.
Thank you.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:43:17 +0000

It is hard to believe that they did not manage to find anybody in France that could speak English.

By: marc

marc — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:57:48 +0000

Iain – try the blog link in the article above – just for the love of it. But now apparently he’ living in a caravan near bristol where he intends to spend the next year without spending a penny. Doen’t sound like he’ll be online much – he says he’ll solar charge his laptop during the year – not too sunny around bristol now with the short days. Reckon he’ll be easiest to track down at the local library or around the supermarket skips.

Check out this article from the Irish Times for more.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2008/1128/1227739082279.html

Maybe finola meredith who wrote the article can help you track him down?

By: Iain Mac E

Iain Mac E — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:55:31 +0000

Anyone know how he can be contacted? Maybe he has a page on this Freeconomy site…?

By: ed

ed — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:55:46 +0000

I expect around August he’ll be announcing he’s given up 20 km into Italy because they can’t understand him. Maybe in December we’ll get to hear how things fare after he stows away in the ferry to Greece and can’t turn around but can’t be understood, either.

Perhaps he should have begged a phrasebook instead.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:22:26 +0000

That or it’s a very bad reflection on the character of the people in northern France!

By: Bill Chapman

Bill Chapman — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:15:22 +0000

This spectacular failure has a linguistic dimension. He really ought to have learned Esperanto. There is a network of Esperanto speakers willing to help travellers. It works. I know because I’ve used it. Further information is available on esperanto.net

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:26:14 +0000

Idiot. The irony is depending on the kindness of strangers and having to give up in France.

The real tragedy is that he is yet another fool who is making idealism synonymous with being naive and ignorant.