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Evening Standard
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
The Adventure Bike Rider show: ‘Glastonbury for bikers'
The biggest draw was perhaps YouTuber Noraly Schoenmaker - better known as Itchy Boots - fresh from filming her exploits (as she took a break in her journey across Iran) to investigate London on, of course, two wheels, encountering helpful policeman and welcoming Londoners. Warm, funny, modest and courageous, she set the main stage alight with her recollections.... triggering long queues in the burning sun as show-goers awaited their chance to buy signed copies of her new book, Free Ride. Sadly, the book queue closed just as I arrived, giving me a great excuse to book tickets for 2026 in the hope that she appears there, too, the next festival's dates having been revealed as June 26 - 28, 2026.
Wales Online
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
YouTube star visits Swansea and immediately has her motorbike stolen
YouTube star visits Swansea and immediately has her motorbike stolen Dutch YouTuber Noraly Schoenmaker had been in Swansea for a book signing, but found her bike stolen the next day A famous travel vlogger who has toured the world on her motorbike didn't get the best Welsh reception when she found out her motorbike had been stolen from a Swansea hotel car park. Dutch YouTuber and author Noraly Schoenmaker has travelled the world on different motorcycles, chronicling her journeys on her YouTube channel, Itchy Boots,. which has 2.8 million subscribes. She was in Swansea for a book signing event last week but when she woke up next day, she could not find her bike. 'You're not going to believe this, my bike is stolen, again! The bike is gone,' she said in her latest video documenting the ordeal. Noraly had parked her bike at the hotel car park. Fortunately, she had a tracker on the bike that led her to a blue van also parked nearby. Never miss a Swansea story by signing up to our newsletter here She told hotel reception, urging them to call the police while she rushed back to the blue van, convinced that her bike was there. 'It was parked. I had the lock around it, cover over it. It wasn't even – you know the bike's not visible but they must have just ridden the van next to it, and just immediately loaded it in," she claimed. 'I'm 100% sure that the chain lock is still there, for sure. It was right in front of the reception. I'd parked it as close as possible to reception.' Article continues below But then – in a stroke of luck, workers from the hotel found her bike hidden in the bushes. Noraly was quick to apologise to the blue van owners. She said: 'I was convinced it was in the blue van. I'm so sorry people from the blue van to accuse you. 'Cause I already looked in the bushes behind but I didn't see it because they hid it. I'm really curious if we're going to see something on the footage of the hotel.' With the help of the hotel staff, Noraly was able to get the bike back down from the bushes, however, it had been damaged. It's numberplate was broken, seat ripped out, damage to the rear view mirrors, and some scratches along with the bike being covered with bushes. Noraly was able to get a clearer view of what happened when the hotel checked their security footage. She explained: 'It turns out, 10 minutes after I parked here yesterday, a guy came on a motorbike, like a little moped…scouting. He rode a few very strange circles, missing all the cameras, so we can't see the plate of that moped nor his face. 'And the at 3.30am in the morning, two guys came and they pushed the bike but because the lock was on the rear wheel they dragged [it] across the pavement, so they left a whole trail of rubber there and then they pushed it around because on the back of those bushes is another parking lot and half an hour later later a van came there.' Noraly added: 'So, 4.00am in the morning, they came there with a van and then changes their mind for whatever reason, maybe they got spooked or something, and then kind of circled back and hid the bike in the bushes but because of the scaffolding that's in front of the hotel, you cant see the faces of the two guys that pushed the bike.' The thieves did manage to get away with the bike's cover, Noraly still had praise for the people of Wales who helped her. 'See, that's the thing right, one bad thing happens, and then you just meet the loveliest people helping you get back on track,' she said 'Like first in the hotel, they were so nice to me, and giving me water and everything, and then now, I got the new license plate for free. Article continues below 'They were like 'No, you don't have to pay we want you to have a good experience in wales', and the next shop where they drilled the holes in the plate and fitted it, they also didn't want to take any payment. So there you go.'
