THIS HAS NOT GONE TO PLAN - Van Life Wales // S06E07
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Our van life road trip in Wales continues but it's all going wrong as we head up the Pembrokeshire coast...we need to get out of here!
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Just wanted you two to know that as someone who follows quite a few youtube vanlife travellers and their exploits you are by a wide margin my very favourite. 🥰 You tell it like it is and don't take yourselves too seriously. Your dry soh just makes my day.
Please keep doing what you are doing though I know that given your latest news things might have to change. Love and peace.
Cheers Paul 😊
I bought my boat in Devizes 14 years ago. I also have a van. I prefer boat life, the pace is very slow, I have travelled extensively in the boat. Presently on the Llangollen Canal. Winter is much warmer on the boat. They are not claustrophobic. The boating community is incredible. You should give it a try, especially after your wonderful explanation of how to move a boat down locks.
That's interesting, would love to give a boat a go!
Alan and Sadge, you make my day! Nothing wrong with crocs and socks! I wear them out in the garden. They are so comfy.
They are aren't they! Very practical!
You could put your soap in one of those mesh garlic bags. Tie the top with a bit of ribbon . Hang it up between uses, you dont have to take it out until it gets too small to use or you can just press the remains onto your new bar .
I like this idea!
Thanks!
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We moved off our 55ft boat 5yrs ago and we are now full time vanners. We sold our house and bought the boat and lived in it for just over 5yrs it’s much like van life there’s over 2000miles of waterways we had a great time, the boats aren’t claustrophobic and they are very warm. The costs are roughly the same as a van, you have to pay a yearly licence fee which allows you to moor for free unless you have a private mooring then you have to pay through the nose usually London etc. or do a overnight at a marina. We only moved off the boat so we could travel into Europe with our van. The way of life is like going back into the 50’s and it’s a slower pace of life but can be hard in winter when the cut freezes over lol.
Ah that's interesting thanks for that
Hi guys, Missing ya but hope all is well.
Back soon! 😍
Gotta love these guys ...... cheers from Cornwall ... happy trails.
😍 thanks
By far the best van life channel on TH-cam reason being “ not shouty “ just normal chit chat as your going about your life easy to watch and no flexing. As far as the soap !!! You can buy travel soap bags on Amazon but probably crap age old problem even in a house get gel and move on !! Crocs and socks?? Looking on the positive it’s better than Birkenstocks and socks but still needs to be debated. Have a good one guys your channel is fabulous
Haha thank you ☺️
So wish I'd known you in Devizes, I'd have offered to take you round the castle and up round way hill and all the other interesting places, lots of interesting history around here.
It's a nice little spot for sure, the town was very nice to.
For Americans: 1.799 GBP per liter = approximately $8.30 per gallon.
Hello you two! We have a plastic soap container bought from a chemists.... but a small tupperware tub or old margarine tub would do..... or even put it in a mesh bag and hang it up to dry.
Nice ideas cheers
I have a sisal bag that my soap lives in - it can be hung to dry out when you're not using it then
Interesting I will give that a look
Great to see you’re enjoying your adventure around Wales. We have a campervan now but used to have a 45 foot narrowboat. We didn’t live on the boat and we don’t live in our campervan. I loved the narrowboat and could probably have lived on the canals in a larger boat, probably 57 foot. I don’t think I could live in the campervan. The boat and the van are about the same width, 6 feet but the boat is obviously a lot longer. Your canal license allows you to moor anywhere on the canal for 14 nights and there’s facilities to empty toilets and fill with water throughout the canal network. There’s also toilets and showers. I loved the boat but my husband hated it! Travelling at two miles an hour and mooring in the middle of nowhere was like a long deep breath for me but my husband found the slow pace of life really frustrating 😂😂. Thankfully we both love our campervan 😁.
Toilets and showers sounds great!
I used to put our soap on the car bonnet to dry. In Northern Spain, it once disappeared and I blamed my husband for leaving it in the shower at the campsite. Later I discovered it in the hedge with little claw marks all over it. The culprit was a rat!
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Thought we'd commented already, but must have forgotten. You need to look at magnetic soap holders; they're the answer to soggy soap issues
Ooo interestingly will do!
Need a soap on a rope, that takes me back. We are off to Pembroke in June and we don’t have a van, booked a house, been lovely to see you travels, looking forward to the Welsh cakes
Ah yes remember those
Hello You Two - greetings from Poland
So pleased you enjoyed Little England Beyond Wales, as Pembrokeshire is known. The trip to Devizes was lovely. I suggest you take a look at Narrowboat Life Unlocked or Robbie Cummings. Their channels will give you everything you've ever wanted to know about canals.
Another wonderful video. I hope you are fit and well and looking fter each other. No comment by the way on crocs and socks!
Thanks Michael 😊
Get a soap dish with a lid (or a tupperware dish) then you just wash it and you can use the soapy water, winner 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Ice-cream pink Crocs are rather fashion forward at mo although I think they have to be platform Crocs...one of great joys of getting older is more and more doing exactly what suits you! You're vlogging on YT , seriously cool✌️Bought Welsh Cakes last week in Booths...delish... possible sponsor? 😄
A Welsh Cake sponsor would be incredible we need to make this happen!
soap box. for travelling and holiday uses. Plastic thing with a lid
Did try but doesn't dry out
When travelling I always used to wrap soap in a flannel.
Fishguard to Rosslare is the ferry route I think. That’s probably how you’ve heard of it.
Ah perhaps
If you use soap nuts you can wash clothes, dishes, people and pets (including make kitchen and bathroom cleaners). No need to dry your soap, then, and cheaper as you can use them multiple times and compost them when they’re spent. 😌
Soap nuts???
@@RunningOffGrid Yes. Sometimes known as soapberries. They've been using them in India for centuries. They're fab and have many uses. They're basically the dried fruit shells from the soapberry tree which grows in India.
@@RunningOffGrid V easy. Boil about 15 nuts in a cotton drawstring bag in 2 litres of water. Bring to a boil then boil for 10 mins. Turn off the heat and leave covered. This creates a gel like substance. (You can use the same nuts at least 3 more times if you keep them in the fridge between uses) Use the gel as it is for shampoo/clothes washing or you can add essential oils if you like. For cleaning products (kitchen, bathroom etc) you mix it with white vinegar and essential oils. Grind the spent nuts in a blender/grinder with 500ml water and use for dish soap/washing veg/handwash/body wash/pet wash. Anti fingal and repels lice and fleas so great for animals. You only use what you need so no waste and no mess. Just the basics but it gives you the idea 😉
Agreed….. no to the crocs n socks. It will be saddles and socks next….. 😳😳😳🤣🤣
All the rage these days I am informed 🤣
Sorry but I don't no if you can still get them . But love watching your vids,
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I love a game of Soap-tyre...
Rightfully complaining about fuel price, but with gas and elec going up as well you're still prob better off in the van 🤷🏻♂️
... I've never seen Fishguard that quiet! Every time I've been (in the summer, admittedly) it's been rammed with tourists.
It was really strange...
Hard no to the crocs-and-socks, but I need to investigate these Welsh cakes that so interest Alan.
😂
Check out the nomadic Veteran, he went from van life to canal boat.
Will have a look cheers
£130 just to fill up wow it’s absolutely ridiculous at the moment
Mad isn't it
No to the crocs n socks. :/ Sandals and white socks are a trend where I live and it's not pretty! Fuel prices are definitely impacting road trips. I plan all my car camping trips for less than one tank of petrol. I just can't afford it. You're going to end up doing more camping than travelling if prices carry on like this but I hear camp site prices are also up. No escaping inflation! :(
Sadly so 😔
🇬🇧🦋Hi both of you and bump
Sadge if you want to wear socks and crocs , just be you and start a new trend , look comfy keep feet warm ..
Beautiful log ... does Fishguard have something to do with vikings . I suppose in a world when everything is open ... it seems strange when town is closed like caught in a time warp, not good if you are hungry . Your lunch 🥙 looked yummy
Lovely scenery . Walking along the lockes was really interesting .
Take care, keep safe , lulu and Paulxx 🦋🇬🇧
Thanks both ☺️
Soap in the fridge....works for me....
Interesting...
How about a soap dish..with a lid?
Went a bit funky...
Embrace the crocs and socks ... 🤷🏼♂️
Absolutely! 🤣
Soap dishes were made for damp soap.
We had one for traveling but it just stayed wet and went a bit funky.
Put yer soap in a soap box lol…….they are an actual thing 🤣
We did try one but it went all funky
Thumbs up on the Crocs and Socks, I like wearing them too. Ouch, your diesel is as high as our gas out here in California. You'll need to do more off grids and free park-ups to balance the cost of fuel. Hope you get that sunshine again, makes me cold just looking at you two out there in the cold, wind and clouds. Glad you're still able to get out despite the weather and give us a tour of your travels. Thanks for sharing with us.
They are super comfortable and so practical 🙂
The price is per litre not per gallon though 😉
Google soap box, a million to choose from and now im getting off mine 🙂
We did try one but it just left you with slimey soap 😔
@@RunningOffGrid ps keep below 60mph makes a big difference to mpg, drive like you have an egg under the accelerator and try to drive smoothly without breaking to much 👍
Your tyre soap dish failed you at 7:12 RIP soap
Forever in our hearts
Crocs nope! Crocs n socks nope n nope! Well you did ask. 😉
😂 but they are so comfortable
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cost me £152 to fill my Citroen relay this morning from empty
Ruddy hell 😔
@@RunningOffGrid Not good as I have a trip planned for Portugal starting the June bank holiday, I reckon it's going to cost me 1k just in fuel 😭😭😭
Get a saop box
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How about liquid soap in a pump bottle, which you can refill, also washing up brush which holds washing up liquid.? Both ways are economical with no waste. Faith in Nature do lovely soaps. Dishmatic washing up brush from supermarket holds Ecover washing up liquid.
Loved the music you choose for this video guys. X
Thanks 👍 🙂
A shame you visited Fishguard on a Monday. The low town has a cracking little cafe near the end of the pier. Also in Goodwick, which is just up the road, has a good cafe on the front and some decent parking, even free in some spots 😁
Yup not a great day to pick it seems sadly although we had a cracking lunch.
use a f,ing soap box😂😂😂😂
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No crocs whatsoever your too young!! I’ve got a pair of Salomon recovery slides and they are brilliant for post run/ride squidgyness and really good to slip on and off for yoga. I lived in mine during lockdown round the house and garden. 👍🏼👫🚐
I used to have the Oofos one's which were great 👍 not tried the Salomon