Hitchhiking Through Britain

Britain by Thumb is about people. It’s about hitchhiking and it’s about a Britain full of good kind people with fascinating lives and extraordinary stories.

Two years ago, I quit my job to hitchhike through the country. There is so little trust in society these days. I wanted to find out why. I began in a lay-by on a Sunday afternoon with a sign for the next town over. Within three minutes, it was raining. Within five, I’d been flipped off. Within ten, I was in the backseat of a Mercedes. I haven’t stopped since.

So join me as I travel the country and the world in the company of strangers. You’ll find vignettes into lives and places, tales from the road and the wonderful panoply of people who drive along it.

Most of all, you’ll find a reason to believe that people aren’t all that bad.

Still, you never quite know what you’re going to get…