Long Way Home (2025) s01e01 Episode Script

1
[theme song playing]
My name is Ewan McGregor.
And in 2004,
my best friend Charley and I rode
around the northern hemisphere
and documented our trip
on a series called The Long Way Round.
We left London
and we rode to New York City.
We did it! New York!
[Ewan] And it was
one of the highlights of my life.
And in 2007, we decided to do it again,
down through the African continent.
And we left London
and we rode to Cape Town.
Unbelievable.
And then, in 2019,
we rode from the tip
of South America, Ushuaia,
to, uh, Los Angeles.
And this time, we decided
to ride on electric motorcycles.
[chuckles, imitates electricity]
Whoo! [cheering]
So, we've decided to do it again.
- Okay, here we go. Into Europe.
- [Charley] Let's do it.
So we're spending
the summer riding a spectacular loop
through 17 of our closest neighbors.
[Ewan] Starting at my house in Scotland,
we'll cross over to the continent,
travel up through the Nordics,
and into the Arctic circle,
down to the Baltics before winding our way
through the Alps and across France,
returning home about two months later.
[Charley] We're gonna throw
caution to the wind
by doing the journey
on temperamental 50-year-old bikes
that have been given a new lease of life.
[Ewan] My bike's making a funny noise.
[bike clangs]
[Russ] Riding alongside them
on a third motorcycle
are cameramen Claudio and Max.
And the guys will also be taking
personal diary cameras.
[chuckling]
[David] Russ and I will be following
with crew and two trucks.
Only meeting up
with the guys when necessary.
[cheering]
[Ewan] So, this summer,
Europe is our playground.
- Wow!
- [blowing]
[Ewan] And we're gonna follow our noses
and see what we find on the open road.
[Ewan] Here it is.
This is the bike
that I wanna do this next trip on.
A 1974 Moto Guzzi Eldorado
Californian police bike.
[engine revving]
[siren wailing]
[engine stops]
[chuckles]
Silly. Okay.
Don't tell Charley.
I'll scare the shit out of him one day.
[laughs]
It does look a bit like it came
out of a river,
and, uh, I love that.
As you can see, you know,
most of my stuff looks like that.
'Cause that's what I love.
I've always enjoyed collecting
and riding old motorbikes.
And I thought,
"I wanna go on one of my bikes."
But who knows if it's gonna perform.
It's an old bike. We'll see.
Hopefully, there will be people that know
how to fix it better than I, if it breaks.
I've always ridden Moto Guzzis.
It was my first big bike.
My mum and dad had
never let me get a motorbike,
and I finished drama school
and I thought, "God, I can" [chuckles]
I can do It was a revelation.
I can do what I want now.
I don't have to [chuckles]
I don't have to have their permission,
you know.
And I fell in love with it
and it changed my life.
I just love them to death.
You know, I just think they're brilliant.
Shouldn't say that.
I just love them.
Knock. Touch wood.
Don't love 'em to death, Ewan,
for Christ's sake.
Motorbikes are dangerous enough as it is,
you know what I mean?
This time, we're leaving in June,
and it will be summertime.
So it'll be pretty nice, I think.
I don't know how [chuckles]
how nice it'll be up here.
We can cut back to me saying that when
we're standing in the icy rain somewhere.
I think it's going to be amazing.
[Ewan] These big trips, they're a luxury.
I-I'm aware of that.
Stepping out of your
everyday responsibilities as a dad
and as a husband.
Hi, baby boy.
There's a sort of freedom to it
that we don't normally have
in our adult lives.
How are you?
You surpri You surprised me.
[child mutters] say, "Ah."
- He wants you to say, "Ah!"
- [Ewan] Ah!
What a surprise! [laughs]
Hello, my love. [kisses]
How's he feeling? He's not well?
He's not very well, no.
- Yeah.
- What, baba?
- Daddy, it was under I go in it.
- [Ewan] Yes.
- You wanna go in it? [gasps]
- [Ewan] Well, you can.
You wanna come in, Laurie?
I gotta shut this door.
Ready? You wanna do it? You pull it.
- One, two three. Go. [strains]
- [metal creaks]
- [Ewan] Boom! You did it.
- [Mary exclaims]
[Laurie] Do it again.
- [Mary chuckles]
- Do it again?
[whispers] One, two, three. [strains]
[metal creaking]
- Boom! You did it.
- [Mary] Ba-boom.
- Let's do it again.
- One more time again?
This is gonna be the one.
[straining] Okay, come on.
This will be the one.
- [groans]
- [Laurie] Do it again.
[Charley] I've been thinking about taking
an Italian bike,
so I'm gonna meet
this dealer who specializes in them.
[speaking Italian]
Look at this.
This is a similar kind of look
as the one that Ewan is gonna take.
I thought it would be really nice to, uh
to get something of sort of a similar age.
Then you're gonna be looking
at something like the 900 GTS.
Really nice bike.
Left-foot gear change, electric start.
[Charley] Electric start sounds amazing.
Just because
of so many accidents recently.
Well, in the last six years,
just destroyed my legs.
I smashed my legs really badly in 2016.
I got clipped by a car
and then hit a wall,
and had 27 operations to
to-to get those right again.
And then, just before doing Long Way Up,
I had a terrible crash.
Much, much worse.
I woke up in intensive care
[stammers] and I'd
had a massive brain injury.
And I broke my pelvis.
My forearm was snapped backwards
and all the bones came out.
And I collapsed this whole left side
of my of my lungs.
The ribs were smashed,
collar bone was broken.
- Good job, thanks.
- Oh, that's it.
[nurse exclaims]
- [Olly] Oh, there you go.
- Breathe.
When I went into intensive care I was, um
I mean, it was awful seeing Charley
in so much pain.
- [breathing heavily]
- [doctor] Nice and deep breaths.
So you can get oxygen in.
[Olly] How was that, Charley?
It's good.
Better than I thought it would be.
- [doctor] Under the circumstances.
- [Olly] Good.
- [Olly] Confidence, isn't it?
- [doctor chuckles]
[Olly] He had to
then be pinned back together,
and I think that
was really hard for Charley.
And very hard for, you know, us all.
[Charley] Now,
finally, I've been able to sort
of start to walk
better and can can do stuff.
[engine revving]
But there were still things like
kick-starting that I'm struggling with.
[Neil exclaims]
[Olly] Of course, you know, you think,
"Oh, gosh. He's off on another trip."
I just hope that we're not going
to face another accident,
and he's done with them.
But then, he rides more carefully now
[stammers] especially at his age. [sighs]
And he's excited about being
on another adventure
with his great friend Ewan,
and they always have
the most incredible time.
- [engine revving]
- [exclaims]
Sounds beautiful.
[engine stops]
[sighs, exclaims]
Well, there you go.
Well, this is a real possibility.
I like it.
Ewan's just coming in a minute.
He's now four minutes late.
We're meeting Russ and Dave
to discuss the new adventure.
And also to celebrate our 20 years
of making Long Way.
I'm gonna share my live location
with you, Ewan.
I think the relationship
Ewan and I have together,
each person gives a gives something
to the relationship.
Oh, there you are.
[Ewan] I don't know that anyone knows me
as well as Charley.
- I thought you were
- Smooth.
I thought you were at this gate here.
- No, I It was the gate over there.
- [laughs]
In the spirit of never ever knowing
where the [bleep] we are.
[Charley] Ewan is a very kind person.
And he's very loyal.
Certainly very loyal to me.
He understands me tremendously well.
Really, that's what makes him
a nice friend.
- [speaks indistinctly]
- [Charley] That's my daughter Doone.
Ewan's known Doone since she
was six months old.
- [Ewan] Should we go up?
- [Charley] Yeah.
I keep saying to Doone, Doone and Kinvara,
"I'm going up to Manchester.
I'm going to do some work." [chuckles]
And they they laugh.
I said, "What are you laughing for?"
They go, "Work."
- [laughs] Work.
- [stammers] Really.
- Aw.
- [Charley mutters]
- Charley, it's not as easy as it looks.
- It's not fair.
It's not as easy
as we make it look. You know?
- Yeah, exact
- That's
That's what I say every time. I say that.
What up, mate? What kept ya?
Got a bit lost.
[all laughing]
He got lost in Manchester.
Happy Long Way to you ♪
Happy Long Way ♪
- It's our 20-year anniversary.
- Is it 20 years' anniversary today?
Yeah.
[Ewan, Charley] Long Way, dear ♪
Long Wayers, and Russ and Dave ♪
- Happy Long Way to you ♪
- Oh, wow.
- Oh, look at that.
- Doone.
- [Ewan] He-Hey!
- [Doone] Happy 20th!
- Miles and miles of smiles.
- Thanks, Doone.
- And then the blow.
- Thank you.
- One, two
- One, two, three.
- three.
- [Doone chuckles]
- [Ewan exclaims]
- Yay!
- Congrats, mate.
- Well done, guys.
- That's brilliant.
- [David] Charles.
- [Charley] Well done. Twenty years.
- [laughs]
- Superb. Wow.
- [Russ] Well done, man.
You don't look a day older.
Ah, thank you, don't feel it.
- [Russ] You ready for the map?
- [Ewan] Yeah.
Well, we gotta go there.
Look how beautiful it's gonna be.
- Yeah.
- God, I can just
- smell the fresh air.
- It's mainly water.
[Ewan] I don't know Scandinavia,
and I love the idea
of the countryside up there.
The Norway coastline looks rugged
and spectacular,
and the sort of fjords that you hear about
in Norway.
Okay, so now we're getting
to the top of, um
- [whispers] The world.
- Norway.
Svalbard.
So it's about as far north as we would go.
Reasons to go
Global warming, that's [stammers]
Svalbard is supposed to be
the litmus paper of the world, you know.
- The ice is melting and
- Yeah.
So if we wanted to go there
and talk to glaciologists
We can also camp on the glacier,
and there's polar bears up there.
- And we got time to go.
- We have a chance to show people that.
- [Ewan] I think we should do it.
- [Charley] Yeah.
You tend to forget about
the places that are on your doorstep.
That adventure that isn't that far away
from home.
[Ewan] I love the planning of it.
I love the dreaming up of the trip,
and then can't stop sort of dreaming about
it until the day you're you set off.
And we're coming back through Finland now?
- So, naked saunas
- Yes?
- Are you in?
- [Charley] I'm done.
Well, I don't know.
I think I might need a little more detail.
Whatever I said Whatever Charley does.
I'm not gonna let him
- I'm going in.
- Talk to me.
I'm not letting him dangle alone.
[chuckles]
[Charley] The camp shop
is just over there.
[Ewan] Tent options.
- Look at that.
- [imitates motorbike]
- [Ewan] Oh, look. Oh
- Oh, yeah. Oh, it's, uh it's magnetic.
[Ewan] Ah, that's quite clever.
So you can
So look, we can Both bikes
- This is my room. Your room.
- Both [chuckling]
[Ewan chuckles]
Or this one.
[Ewan] Yeah, that's what I slept in
after we split up in Long Way Round.
- You slept in that tiny thing.
- You had our two-man tent, didn't you?
- Yeah.
- And I had this little
When we had the divorce.
- pissy little thing, didn't I?
- [chuckles]
[Ewan] But not that I'm bitter
about it in any way or
- [Charley] No. Well
- holding on to that.
It's just give, give for me.
- That's what you often find.
- [Charley chuckles]
I think it saved our relationship,
you know,
having that sort of divorce
on the Russian Steppes.
Uh, what I remember
was just how quickly you fell asleep.
So we'd go in, he'd lie down
and I [stammers] I'd lie down,
and I'd sort of settle myself down
- and you'd be asleep already. Like, out.
- [chuckles]
And then I'd lie there, like,
just listening to Charley being asleep.
And then there was snoring.
[stammers] You'd snore in the night,
- I'd snore in the morning.
- He'd snore in the morning.
- And it was just Yeah.
- It was just Didn't work.
[Ewan] Okay, let's go look
at other trek stuff.
- So I got I-I bought two of these.
- Oh, yeah.
So that I've got two liters
of extra fuel [stammers] for us.
- [chuckles]
- If we need it.
- Sharing, see.
- Share Caring.
- Caring and sharing. I know. I know.
- Aw, you're just just so good at
[Ewan] Are you taking a plastic horse
with you or not?
- Well
- I'm not gonna take mine.
- Are you not gonna take yours?
- No.
I'm gonna leave my plastic horse
because last time it just got damaged and
It's difficult to sort
of squirrel it away, isn't it really?
[Ewan] And what to do with it, really.
What to do with your plastic horse.
[vocalizes]
Go Outdoors.
Get up and get off your sofa.
- It's the name of a shop
- Catchy.
and it's also,
like, a good piece of advice.
[engine starts]
[Ewan] I loved doing Long Way Up so much
with Charley and our team.
I'm really, really excited about it.
You're not meant to ride a motorbike
when you're making a movie.
If you were to fall off and break a wrist
or something, it would stop the machine.
So I miss it.
And when you're on a film
every single thing is decided,
you know, you
We'll pick you up at this time,
gonna do these scenes,
this is what you can have for lunch.
And you don't really have
any decision making,
and then when you're on the road afterward
everything is in your own hands again.
And it's nice, you're sort of taking back,
um, ownership of your own self.
- How are you, mate?
- [Moe] Okay. How you doing?
I'm good.
- See ya. Good to see ya.
- Good to see you, mate.
[Moe] What do we need to do today on it?
[Ewan] I'm just gonna leave it with you.
- [Moe] Okay. All right.
- [Ewan] Yeah.
- [Moe] There you go.
- [assistant] What about a new seat?
- So this would sit
- Right about there.
This would sit up there.
I'd be able to open the boxes.
- Yeah.
- I think a pillion seat.
- [Moe] Okay, here's an old one, we can
- [Ewan] Okay.
- This might match the bike a little more.
- [Ewan] Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
[Moe] Can we open the boxes?
- Yeah.
- [Ewan] Yeah.
So we can just leave it on.
- We can just leave the pillion seat on.
- That's perfect.
- Should put some new tires
- Probably ought to put new tires on it.
- [Ewan] Yeah. Yeah.
- New rubber. [sighs]
- Rear shocks.
- [Moe] Yep.
I would check the forks. Just to see
that you're happy with the forks.
- Yeah.
- I think that's it.
I don't know what you wanna do to to just
have a Service it and put new oil in it
Oh, I'll just do a regular service
and make sure everything's good.
You know what you do need?
A new windshield.
I know. You can't see
through this one very well.
[Moe] We'll get you a new one
'cause that's a safety issue,
so I think it'd be good.
[Ewan] As long as
it doesn't look crazy, like
- [Moe] Well, it'll look new.
- [Ewan] It'll look new, yeah.
I guess we got
everything figured out, huh?
Great.
- Cheers, Moe. Brilliant.
- Cool.
Should we FaceTime Charley?
- [Moe] Oh.
- Why don't we give him a bell?
[ringing]
- Charley Boorman.
- Look at that. What's up, buddy?
[imitates Australian accent] G'day, Mate.
How are you?
[Ewan] I'm all right, mate.
- What we're wondering is
- Yeah.
if you've Have you got a bike
yet to ride on this trip?
I'm just sort of sort of having a little
sniff around and seeing what's around.
It's not easy looking for motorbikes.
- I know, I know.
- [laughing]
- [chuckling]
- [Moe] You're all good.
I was just saying to the boys
that I think I'm gonna
put a little a little games console here.
- [chuckling]
- So I've got something to do
while I wait for you
to get your bike running again.
[Charley] No, fantastic.
Well, at least you know the bike.
I haven't even got a bike.
You'll find something perfect, Charley.
I know you will.
- [Charley] All right.
- See you, Charley. Lots of love, mate.
[Charley] See you guys later.
[Russ] If the boys wanna go on
old bikes that's fine,
but they're gonna be unreliable.
I don't think we can afford
to have unreliable camera cars.
I've calculated that we've got
about seven-and-a-half thousand miles
[coughs] from Ewan's house
on this route to Charley's house.
We've gotta take all the camera equipment,
all the medical equipment,
all the camping equipment
and the two extra camera people.
So we need to be a bit more reliable.
And sustainable. Potentially, right?
- If we can go electric.
- Yeah.
Um
I think Norway, Sweden, Finland
have a real history of a charging network,
and I think we should be fine there.
We took electric vehicles last time,
had a great experience.
So, I prefer that.
We know that area is very strong
with regards to renewable energy.
We don't know so much about this.
[David] But chances are,
if the distances aren't that great
and we've got decent range in
the vehicles, we shouldn't have a problem.
- [Russ] Okay. I'm in.
- Yeah?
Electric. Decision made.
[Charley] Finally, I think I've got
the motorbike to ride on the trip.
BMW R75.
I really like it.
Modern but retro at the same time.
So [clicks tongue] my love.
Finally, the bike should be arriving now.
- [gasps] Is that it? Perfect.
- Oh, look. Here it is. That's it.
[Charley] Look at that timing.
Hello.
Gosh, it's in a lot worse state
than I thought.
Shit.
Oh, it's There's rust everywhere.
Panicking slightly because
there's quite a lot to do on the bike.
[truck lift motor whirs]
[Charley] Time is really against us now.
We literally have weeks to go.
[sighs] Oh, my God. This is a mess.
[groans]
Well, I'm glad it's here.
Anything that's metal is
it's just rusted.
The whole engine needs to be redone.
A whole lot of electrics need to be done.
[sighs]
Nice and Okay.
[inhales sharply] You ready?
Okay.
Here we go. Okay.
[inhales sharply, exclaims]
First ride.
[exclaims]
[sighs] Well, she is pretty.
She really is pretty.
I like it.
[Ewan] Moe is finally finished
working on the bike,
and I can't wait to see
what he's done with it.
It's nice to be
on a bike that I know already,
that I'm not getting to know on a trip,
but I already have history with it.
- [Ewan] Hello. Hello there.
- [Moe] Hello.
Very nice.
Oh, that looks like it's ready
for doing some miles now.
Good work, man.
Oh, it looks great.
[Moe] You've got your extra fuel.
Everything's got fresh oil.
I love it.
be doing a lot of miles
and I wanna make sure nothing happens.
- As I cross my fingers.
- [chuckles]
It looks like it's ready.
[inhales sharply] Look at that.
- Oh, I like this. This is nice.
- It's all
It's quite [stammers] useful
being able to see through it, isn't it?
- [Moe] Fire it up.
- [engine starts]
[revving]
Very nice.
Sounds like it wants to go to Scandinavia.
That's what I think.
All right, let's go.
["Smile" playing]
[giggles]
Oh, yes.
I love it. I just love it.
It's like before but better.
Fantastic.
[coughs] I'm ready to go.
You need some water or what?
No, it's all right. I've just swallowed
a fly or something.
[laughs]
[revving]
[song continues]
[song ends]
[Ewan] Time to pack this baby off
to Scotland.
Let's get the ramp out, I suppose, first.
- Yeah.
- [Ewan] That's it.
- [onlooker speaks indistinctly]
- [David] We're good, Mac.
- Yeah.
- [David] Yeah.
[Ewan] Okay, I'm jumping down.
Okay.
Now pull a little bit. What do you think?
- Is it stuck in that ru
- Yeah, you're bottoming out right here.
Oh, I see.
Oh, shit. Okay.
Ready to pull it? I just want
to make sure we all
Well, I'll lift I'll lift this way.
Ready? One, two, three.
- Yeah.
- [exclaims] The ramp's going.
- The ramp's sliding off.
- Okay.
Can we put it back on?
- Put it up. Put it back on the
- [Ewan] Push this.
A little bit more.
That's okay. Roll it back.
- You ready? Going down.
- Okay, it's going down.
Nice one, Mac.
- [grunts] Okay.
- Okay, slowly now.
[all straining]
[chuckles] That's how we do it. [laughing]
- My God, that's not how it's done.
- [chuckles]
- [onlooker] Lift it up a little bit.
- [chuckles]
God, that did my back the world of good.
Pulling that. Holding the bike up there
- Yeah, man. That was
- in mid-air.
I'll leave it in your hands.
- Thank you very much, gents.
- You're very welcome.
[David] How about that delivery?
[chuckling]
[Charley] Ewan has always been
the organized one.
So once again, I'm playing catch-up
to try and get my bike ready.
[David] Did stuff arrive?
[Charley] Yep. This is our camping gear.
Turned up just in time.
[David chuckles] That's fantastic.
This is the spade for digging our toilet.
- Come on, come on.
- Oh, look at that.
[David] Shut up. [laughs]
- [phone ringing]
- Everyone, hold on. Ewan's calling us.
- How's it going? What're you doing?
- I think very well, just
[Russ] We're having a production meeting.
[David] Somebody on the team,
I'm not sure who,
they made they bought a poo shovel.
- The poo shovel.
- [crew laugh]
- Oh, yeah?
- It's the McGregor brand.
[Ewan laughs]
- I couldn't not when I saw that.
- We're on brand.
- [crew laugh]
- [stammers]
I mean, that's my main worry.
Is that it's such a huge one.
- Like
- [all laugh]
Just need a little trowel.
How are you, Ewan?
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.
Be up in Scotland from the 27th
We arrive.
[sighs] Start packing my bag, you know?
- Is everything sorted from your side?
- Yeah.
Got myself all set up,
and then my dad had organized
A couple of my bikes
in Scotland needed their MOT's,
so he ordered organized a couple
of his mates to come and pick them up.
I got an email the next day saying,
"Ewan, uh, we got the bikes MOT'ed.
Everything went fine,
but, um, both of the boys
and myself have got major concerns
about the motorcycle that you've chosen
to do this trip on."
[crew laugh]
- [David] Come on.
- [Ewan] All right,
lots of love to you all, guys.
[Charley] Kevin has just arrived,
said he's pulled an all-nighter
getting all the electrics done
and everything like that.
Interested to see it.
Okay, that's good, Kev.
Welcome.
What a ride.
Long way.
You were up burning the candle last night.
[Kevin] Uh, what would
normally take us two months
we've had to cram into two days.
Wow.
Well, look at that.
You put the
the new starter motor in and
[Kevin] Yeah, a new starter is in there.
New silencers.
- 'Cause they were just rusty as anything.
- Wow.
That's brilliant.
Geez.
- Wow.
- A thing of beauty.
- That is, um [clicks tongue]
- I know, it's gorgeous.
- Oh, and that's the
- Root beer.
- The root beer. Oh, he's done
- Not black, not brown, not gold.
- Root beer. Have you got it? Sure?
- [Charley] Oh, my God. That is Yeah.
[exclaims]
[chuckling]
- [Charley] It could go further down.
- Ah.
[Kevin]
Doesn't matter. We'll pop him in now.
- You in?
- [Kevin] That's it. [exclaims] Beauty.
[Charley] That's brilliant.
Well, thank you for that.
Laurie.
Are you hiding from me?
Where are you?
Laurie.
Mate, how are ya?
- We're here. Isn't it amazing?
- [Charley] Well done.
- Yeah.
- God, it's so good to see you.
- Oh, my God.
- So good to see you.
[Charley] It's been bloody ages.
- [exclaims]
- [Russ] Here we are.
- Long Way four.
- [Charley] Long Way four.
[Ewan] No shoes on the carpet upstairs.
So, let me just show you quickly
where all your gear is.
[Charley] Oh, yeah.
We can go through it all
and make sure we've got the right stuff.
- [Laurie shrieks]
- Laurie's up!
Wait a second.
Did anyone see Laurie?
Where's Laurie?
- [sniffs, exclaims]
- [shrieks]
[Ewan] Did anyone see that boy Laurie?
That's very good.
I'm gonna show you how
- [David] Now that
- you ride on my bike.
[David] That looks too fast for you.
Are you sure you're old enough
to ride that, Laurie?
[David gasps]
[Ewan] Oh! You know you can steer a bit?
Steer a bit to go round
the corners. [imitates motorbike]
- [David exclaims] There we
- [Ewan] That's it.
That's a good steer.
See ya.
[Charley] Should we have a look
at the bikes?
- Is that what we're gonna do?
- [Ewan] Yeah. Let's do it.
Here we are.
[Charley gasps, blows]
[imitates robot]
Well, now now that they're side by side,
I think they look like
quite a splendid pair.
[Charley] They do.
I'm just gonna put
my heated grips on, Ewan.
[chuckles]
Not that, you know [stammers]
Do you have a pair of heated grips?
Do you know what's funny? [stammers]
I opted not to go for heated grips,
- just for the sake of originality.
- To keep it original.
- Come on, baby.
- [engine starts]
[revving]
He's got
I-I'm very jealous of his brakes.
He's got twin discs.
He's got twin disc brakes.
Good stopping power.
I've got a little old, shitty drum brake.
Hmm.
Well, you'll be you'll probably be
in the lead, so
[chuckles]
So long as I miss you.
[Russ] two, three.
[Russ] Oh.
- So, David put his phone here.
- Okay.
And then Laurie was in playing with Rachel
and he was bouncing, bouncing
- Oh, no. [gasps]
- and David's phone fell down the back.
And it's taken us about an hour
[chuckles]
- And we have to get it out.
- [David] One, two, three.
- [Ewan straining]
- [Charley] Okay, pull it.
- [David] It goes down for ages.
- [Ewan] Let me see.
[David] No way, you're not You can't
even touch the bottom.
[Ewan] Oh, shit.
[straining]
[David] Oh, one more. A little bit.
[Ewan] Wait, wait. How did y'all
do your backs in before the trip started?
[Russ laughs]
[Russ] Tell you what would work.
Tongs from the kitchen.
Something. A pole
with a sticky thing on it.
[onlooker] The lady who did the food
has got a telescopic magnet.
- No.
- [Ewan exclaims]
- Okay, here.
- Yeah.
[Charley] There, there.
[Russ] Is there another thing
that we could use?
- I don't think it's gonna be magnetic.
- It's not gonna be magnetic.
- [Ewan] It's not picking it up.
- Nah.
What's it called
when they stick a camera up your bum?
[Russ] This should work.
[vacuum cleaner sucking]
Okay, you said you saw it move, right?
[David] You got it, right?
- I mean, it's kind of
- [Olly] You can actually see it.
- Okay, hold on.
- Wait, no, it's moving over.
- [Russ] Right, we'll turn it off.
- Turn it off.
So, here we are,
trying to recover Dave's phone.
- Here, here, here.
- [Charley mutters]
Three men trying to rescue
a phone stuck down the back of the seat.
[Ewan] Okay, yeah. Keep going.
Okay, that's coming up.
That's come up an inch.
[laughs]
[David] Turn a little Jesus.
[crew member] Pull softly.
- [Ewan] Nobody say anything.
- [Charley grunts]
- [David] He's got it.
- She's got it.
- No way!
- [all cheering]
Uh, you might want to keep this.
A message from Apple.
The show is canceled.
[Ewan laughs]
- Morning, Rusty.
- Morning.
- Charley.
- D-Day, D-Day.
- Yes, yes, yes.
- The big one.
[Charley] Since the last one, 2019,
the world changed,
and was stuck for a while.
And for the first time in a long time,
I got used to to being at home.
How are you guys feeling
now that we're all leaving now?
- Fantastic. [laughs]
- [stammers] Fantastic?
- No, seriously. It's going to be
- If you could lie and just say,
"You know, I was tossing
and turning all night in bed."
And I think Olly and I got used to it,
and now,
suddenly we're leaving each other.
It's mixed emotions.
Yeah, there you go. [inhales sharply]
As we've been doing our preparations here,
it's also just been getting closer
and closer
to having to say goodbye
to Mary and Laurie.
That's the hardest bit of all.
[engine revving]
[Ewan] Well, that's it, Charley.
If we've forgotten anything,
it's too late.
Really have got a nerve nervy feeling
on myself.
My school pipe band are gonna arrive.
- Morrison's Academy.
- Whoo!
I used to be a side drummer
in this pipe band,
and my dad before me and my uncle and
Come from a [chuckles]
a long line of drummers.
And, uh, my dad,
he's arriving with them shortly.
And then, the idea is [stammers]
they'll play a set
and then we'll get off.
Oh, here they are right now.
Dad, massive band, isn't it?
God, it was like nine of us.
- In my The band I was in.
- That's right. I know.
[Ewan] Oh, my God.
Wait till they crack off.
- Gets the hairs on the back of your neck.
- File right, quick, march!
[drumming]
[blowing]
[bagpipe music plays]
This is all far too emotional,
I have to say. [chuckles]
Anyway, sorry I'm gonna cry.
- Take care.
- It's gonna be all right.
Don't worry. It's gonna be all right.
- [Carol] I know.
- [Ewan] Don't worry about us.
[bagpipe music continues]
It brings tears to my eyes.
I'm sure they'll have a wonderful time.
- [bagpipe music stops]
- Whoo!
- [people cheering]
- [chuckles] Thank you.
- See you soon.
- [Laurie cries]
[Ewan] Oh, I'll see you soon, wee man.
- Mm-hmm, okay.
- Mm-hmm.
- I love you.
- I love you so much.
[Laurie sighs]
[drumming]
[blowing]
- [Charley] Farewell, everybody.
- [bagpipe music plays]
[Russ] Now the adventure starts.
Here we go.
[engines revving]
[Ewan exclaims]
Look at the horses.
They're saying goodbye.
Whoo-hoo, look at them.
[Charley] They're loving it, aren't they?
They're going, "We wanna come,"
is what they're saying.
[bagpipe music stops]
- [Charley] Here we go.
- [Ewan] Let's go.
["In a Big Country" plays]
So great!
[exclaims]
[Charley] It's fantastic to be
on the road again.
Next stop: Newcastle.
[Ewan] Very nice to be riding
along with this man again.
Riding along with Charley Boorman.
[song continues]
[Charley] Wow, what a lovely road.
Look at this.
- This is what it's all about.
- It's great, isn't it?
Off on a great adventure.
[Ewan] Everyone thinks my bike looks like
a piece of old crap, but they'll see.
Don't judge a book by its cover, you know?
That's what I say.
All right, man. How does it feel? Good?
- Excellent.
- It feels good?
- The bike feels nice.
- Nice.
And, uh, that's a bit of a relief.
She runs kind of smoothly.
Yours is sounding very pretty as well.
- It's not
- [Ewan] Yeah.
You know, I was worried they were both
gonna be a bit noisy,
but but they're actually quite quiet.
[upbeat music plays]
[Charley] It's funny, isn't it?
Twenty years this year, of doing this.
That's bizarre, isn't it?
All the shit we've done in between
is quite extraordinary.
The lives we've led.
[Ewan] Absolutely.
Amazing bridge.
[Charley] What a beautiful sight.
[exclaims]
[Ewan] Wow.
Had to run half naked over this bridge in
[stammers] Trainspotting 2.
[laughs]
[thunder rumbles]
[Ewan] And the rain
[Charley] Yeah, the rain.
[upbeat music stops]
[rock music plays]
Wow, that rain, I think, is
not getting any better.
Classic Scottish send-off here.
[Charley] We're gonna have to, uh
Might have to pull over
and put some waterproofs on.
Yeah, find somewhere to stop.
[engine stops]
[rock music stops]
[Charley]
It's not what we signed up for, Ewan.
- [Ewan] Okay.
- [Charley] Okay.
- Here we go.
- [Ewan] Nicely done, everyone.
[blues rock music playing]
[Charley] We're heading
to get the ferry, uh,
which says we're gonna get there at 4:00.
They said, "Get there by no later
than 3:00." [chuckles]
The needles of the open-face helmet
in the rain. [groans]
[Charley] Like any trip or any adventure
or any holiday,
you just got to enjoy the moment.
[Ewan] Glad I put on my boots.
[Charley] There's a bit
of blue sky up there.
Looks like we've made it just on time.
Four o'clock.
[Ewan exclaims]
[Charley] There's the ferry.
[Ewan] Oh, yeah. Look at that.
That's a big one.
That's just beautiful, isn't it?
Here we are, Ewan.
Thank you.
[Ewan] Amsterdam, here we come.
[song ends]
[rock music playing]
[Ewan] This place is amazing.
- Can't have my fingers. No. Those are
- [Ewan laughing]
What he really wants is the gin.
- [exclaims]
- [grunts]
- Yeehaw, let's go.
- [rock music stops]
- [Charley] Oh, oh, shit.
- [motorcycle sputters, thuds]
You okay, Ewan?