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Wow going in Time Tara, John and little Crusoe you keep showing in my page with your past travels today in the Hebrides. Was lovely to see your niece Summer. Too bad you could not stay longer. Did you know FYI the Callanish Stones on the west coast of the island of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland were used by the Starz TV series, Outlander (2014), as a model for a fictional stone circle near Culloden called Craigh na Dun. The stones are depicted in the show as having time-travel abilities when touched. Funny time-travel all fantasy we know but folklore vividly speaking through what these islands have shown in time. Great to see you all again. Many blessings as you continue your projects in Portugal. Next time with Sawyer revisiting Scotland Lord willing. Many blessings 🙏💖🥰👶👱🏴🇵🇹
Oh wow this video brought back beautiful memories for me. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. If I had the opportunity to relocate, it would definitely be to the Hibrides or somewhere on the highlands to live in a croft in a tiny village. Scotland is the country my heart belongs to ❤
So lovely to watch this video from Egypt. Sometimes I miss Scotland... thank you for gifting us this amazing adventure! And so adorable to see Crusoe so little again xx
A few years ago I spent Christmas on the Isle of Harris, on the Christmas morning I was parked on Luskentyre Beech sat outside my van in shorts and crocs eating toast and
Hi Mark! Great to hear from you and thanks for sharing, wow - amazing to hear that you could don a pair of shorts on Christmas Day in Harris! Wonderful. Thanks for tuning in, great to have you with us. 😎
New subscriber Mikel. Having fun watching you craft your very sweet new build with Tara and (Robinson) Caruso. Thank you for sharing your terrific adventures with us. Please Stay Well
Welcome Mikel! So great to have you with us, we really appreciate your support and we’re excited to share our adventures with you! Have a happy weekend and we will see you on Sunday 😊 ☀️
I’m showing my hubby all your videos to try and get him in the adventure mood! He’s now agreed to try it for a short trip 😃 He has put in a floor, a slide out sideways bed and side shelves in my small electric van. I’ve been on several day trips in the Cotswolds, a 10 day trip with a friend and last week I went on my own first ever solo trip (to Devon & Cornwall). Your videos are really uplifting and inspiring, thank you 😊
Thank you!! That’s such a lovely comment and we’re so pleased that we’re getting your hubby in the travel mood too! And, well done for your first solo adventure, we hope it was a massive success? We can’t wait for Portugal and some nice hot sunshine! Thanks so much for being here and see you next week x
Yes it was wonderful thanks, the highlight was lying in bed with the door open, looking at a vast open view watching the sun set. I was watching the latest The Indie Projects on TH-cam today too, who are renovating a barn in Portugal, you’ve probably heard of them, they say it’s 30c, so look looks like you’re definitely in for some hot sunshine! Have a wonderful time:)
Those views from open doors, and the places you can get the van in to. Priceless! Wooohooooo! Hot weather and guaranteed sunshine!!! Can’t wait. Crusoes first flight on Wednesday, let’s see how that works out. :)
I mean, honestly, little Crusoe has a gift, he has brought you sunshine in the Highlands and Islands. Not 5 minutes of sunshine but actual semi sunny days. God loves you and the CalMac. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
Good morning Sheildag! Great to hear from you friend, its been quite a week! Crusoe is indeed our lucky charm and it seems we find sunshine with him every day. Thank goodness for CalMac too!! Thanks so much for watching and taking this journey with us, your support is so very much appreciated! 👍🙏🚐
thanks again for sharing this great video. Never been to the islands of Harris & Lewis although I had stayed in Scotland for 1 year. Love to see your baby boy who travelled with you in the campervan. He is so cute and lovely. (12:39)
Just found you guys today and so glad I did! Lovely collage of breathtaking Scottish panoramas, a little bit of historical information on the sites, countryside, villages, overhead and close-ups shots, food, weather, good energy........such delightful videos. Thank you for sharing. You have a new subscriber!
Loving this video so close to The Island of Mull ,where my Family started more than a hundred years ago My Great Great Grandparents born and raised and lived till immigrating to America 🇺🇸
Have jst found u guys, and coincidentally ur doing my home country of Scotland I have had a catchup binge and am subscribed for all future adventures for ur gorgeous wee family Davie x
Hi Davie, great to hear from you. THANK YOU! We love your home country, Scotland was a great trip, we will be back. Next week, we are in Portugal! Look out for that one. Great to have you along with us. 🙏👍😎
Hi Jane! Thank you 🙏. It’s great to hear from you. Our little man is a super hero we are sure, puts up with a mummy and daddy that drag him all over! Great to have you with us.
Absolutely love the quality & content of your videos. Well done on the van build meanwhile with a newborn. You travelled into a part of the world I’ve not even heard of, very fascinating learning about the history.
Thanks V, great to hear from you. :) we are really enjoying putting these videos together. Appreciate you dropping us a line and your support. Thank you 🙏 👍☀️
Awesome vlog. We call that weather "a mixed bag" back in Newfoundland, or if you phone and ask , how's the weather, they likely will say RDF(rain, drizzle and fog). The village reminds me of Lanse Aux Meadows viking village in Newfoundland. The circle stones are so interesting. Imagine life back then makes me appreciate all we have today.
Thanks Susan, great to hear from you. We really enjoy the travelling and love that we can share our journey. Thanks very much for watching. We are looking forward to our next destination. Any thoughts? 👍🙏🚐
Thank you so much for doing this video. My granny (Mhairi McDougall) was born into a family in Knockintorran who had lived in the same croft for six generations. At 16, she emigrated to Canada, married a gold prospector, then returned to live in Dundee for the rest of her life. We have only visited North Uist once (in 1989) on foot so got no further than Lochmaddy - camping on the ferry terminal in the pouring rain. Now we have retired and seen your vlog, a return trip is required!
That’s an amazing heritage Judith, and you should definitely go back, it’s a beautiful place, so wild and untouched in many ways, and the crofting families are still many generations deep as it were! Thanks for being here.
Thanks so much Sue! He really is changing by the day at the moment, we are loving watching him grow and no doubt these videos will be amazing to return to in years to come. Thanks again for watching!!
Hi just wanted to say thank you all so much for your videos which we do enjoy... we are near retirement and can't wait to be off on trips like yours but making the most of the waiting. Crusoe is absolutely charming thank you for sharing with us. We have been inspired to go to the uists and skye after your recent video where your "photography" and drone footage is just wonderful. You find great places to visit and watching is like having a mini holiday ourselves. Once we are retired hope to follow your footsteps to scandinavia too... Very best wishes from Caroline and Bob and our dog Molly near Cambridge Cambs.
Thanks Claire, really pleased you enjoyed that, we certainly did. Next adventure will be NC500 west coast, this time next week, we are LOVING Scotland, and finding it very difficult to leave. 😂😊🤩 hope to see you again next week.
Hey Carla my friend. How are you! What an adventure these islands have been. We are now battling more weather on the NC500. Fantastic. Hope all is well with you, fingers crossed we are able to head south soon and find the sun. ☀️👍😎
My wife and i are looking forward to doing the NC500 in 2023 in our campervan and we both love the vidoe you have put on youtube. my only thourght about your vidoe is half way through your steering wheel changed from right hand drive to left hand drive
Hey Keith! Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend. Good spot about the steering wheel. We edited the van so that it travelled in the opposite direction which reversed everything. Have fun on your NC500 trip. You will love it!! 👍❤️🙏
What an amazing country, bleak but amazingly beautiful in its own way. Loved seeing this special family take all that was thrown at them in their stride. Roll on Sunday.
I love your videos. My ancestors on both Mother and Father's are from North Uist. They came over to Canada on the ship The Hector in the early 1800. My dream is to someday travel to Scotland. I live in Cape Breton and it is very much like Scotland. Fortress Louisburg and Alexander Graham Bell museum and of course the famous Cabot Trail are some of the highlights. My ancestors were Morrison and MacCuish.
Thanks Brenda! Thanks for sharing, Scotland is a very beautiful country to visit! Thanks so much for watching and taking this journey with us, your support is so very much appreciated! 👍🙏❤️
Hi Steven. Great to hear from you! Thanks very much for the kind words. Most appreciated. Scotland’s is fantastically beautiful. We will be back!!! 👍🏴🙏
Visited Shetland a few years ago. Couldn't even stand up straight it was so windy. When we got back to Skye the wind was 80 miles an hour. Our tent broke early the next day and we had to pack up and leave, we'd do it all again in a heartbeat x
Wowzers!! Sounds crazy Pauline! We did giggle while on Uist that everyone’s laundry was horizontal most of the time, they do deal with Mother Nature in all her glory up there. So great that you’d do it all again despite the tent debacle, speaks of the beauty and adventure there is to be had up there. Happy Sunday and thanks for being here.
TheNewbys have to add, my pal and I are in our 60s, we started camping about ten years ago and have had many adventures. Our families think we're bonkers but they're proud really.
Hello, Lovely videos but please get an aluminum rear worn baby carrier. Tripping forwards you could crush Cruso or your next one! Several times on the videos you’re walking along with Cruso on the front and your hands in your pockets. It’s up to you but a friend crushed their baby doing exactly that. They survived fortunately. Some of the paths you’re on, you could easily trip. Apart from that keep up the good work.
Hey David! Thanks so much for the concern and taking the time to write, we have had the same thought and have a new carrier for Crusoe which can take him on our backs now that his neck strength is a bit better. We are of course always thinking about him and his safety first, and would never want to put him at risk or in harms way and so appreciate any and all advice. Have a super week and thanks again for watching!
@@TheNewbys it wasn’t a criticism but you can get rear ones for very small people that protect their necks made of aluminum like a roll cage and they can grow into them. I have my own two kids now 12 and 15 yrs old but we were very active when they were little. Regards
Thanks David, no criticism felt at all friend, we’re genuinely very grateful for the advice. We could look into those carriers for number two perhaps, they sound great. All the best!
Thoroughly enjoy joining you on your journey. I am a bit out of sequence but that’s ok as long as the ones I watch covering your Portuguese farm are in order. I often google places you visit to learn more saddle did not catch name of place so could not find anything on the Sone mills in northern Spain…I did however find a bit about Hercules bear and thought your followers may like to know that some time after he ran away to joking the circus lol he Went on to appear in the film Octupusy, the James Bond film.
I’m loving your coverage of these remote Scottish isles that I have been planning to explore for a while now as will definitely help plan my own adventure so thank you ever so much. Look forward to more from you 😊
Thank you so much Dainty Cakerie. Your trip to the islands will be amazing we are certain of that. Good luck and let us know how you enjoy it! Thanks so much for watching and taking this journey with us, your support is so very much appreciated! 👍🙏🚐
Hi now let’s see if I have got your names correct,Tara John Crusoe ,really hope I have got them right ,wow I really enjoyed your trip so John do you come from there as your mum sister live on the island,some beautiful sites on them and the History you both tell us is fantastic,thank you for the ride ,till next time take care keep safe,John 👀🥂❤️🌹🌈🍺👌👌
Hi John, yes you have all names correct and spellings exact. A bit more about us. Tara is from Zimbabwe, John is from Oxford and Crusoe was born about two meters away from where his dad was born, also Oxford! Crusoe of course named after Robinson Crusoe, one of John’s favourite books. Thanks so much for watching our vlogs John it is great to have you with us!!
Thank you for showing us Scotland! Your filming skills are very impressive! Colours are so vibrant, I love your style of filming and editing. Can’t wait to see all of it myself! Is the weather being kinder for you? As always all the best 👨👩👦😊
Thanks so much Iza, we so appreciate that and we’ve been a little luckier with the weather since. especially when you consider it’s Scotland! 😂 Great to have you with us, we so appreciate it. Have a wonderful week! 😎 xx
Fantastic, mesmerising landscapes once again. Fascinated by the historic local houses with rocks on ropes holding down thatched roofs. Never seen that before. Waiting for Crusoe to be impressed by something though....mum & dad trying hard but Crusoe insisting on staying zoned-out and chilled (sometimes literally) about everything. Is he practicing to be a teenager?
Hi Flaneur, great to hear from you friend! You noticed the ropes too, we were fascinated by them, what a great solution to a windy problem!! We have been loving Scotland, and find our selves here for 3 weeks already. So much to see and do. Thanks as ever for your support, great to know you’re out there. :) 😊👍🛖
Hey guys, great to hear from you. Thanks for subscribing! Good luck with your trip, let us know how you get on. Those £5 camper slots in Harris = winner!!! 👍
I love your videos but this one is especially special to me. Note to self go and see the village towards the end of the video. It featured on ‘Call the midwife.’
Thank you Todd, that’s so great to hear. We promise to keep documenting our little family adventure, and we’re really grateful to have you along for the ride. See you next Sunday!
This was sooo sooo beautiful… Crusoe seems to be enjoying as well… After watching u guys it feels like i wanna visit those places too… Great content and u guys are courageous to travel With such baby on board… Good luck keep growing n keep travelling 🧳🚚
Thanks Pooja! Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend. Crusoe has now been to 23 countries in his first 14 months of life, and it’s been terrific fun. Lots of adventure. Thanks for leaving us such a friendly comment. 👍❤️❤️🙏
Hi. We found your wee channel planning for our own Harris and Lewis adventure this coming August. Well impressed you did all this and with a little ‘un in tow! Well done on your great Scotland video series. Stunning scenery 👍
That’s so exciting to hear guys! You’re going to love it, it’s spectacular up there, Harris especially is incredible. We’d love to hear how you get on, have a great time and thanks so much for tuning in and being here, we really appreciate it. Have a great week! X
Hi Karen, great to hear from you!! You are in for a real treat, the Outer Hebrides are fantastic. Please do let us know how your trip goes! Have fun! 👍
:lovely! In our first year of campervan ownership and our first major trip was the NC500 - about the same time that you did it. We decided that next May is island time... got another Northumberland and Scotland trip in September (with a little Welsh coast 3 nighter before) ... We'll get to the best part of 50 nights this year, maybe a bit more which is great.
WOWZERS!! 50 nights in your van, that’s good work UKgroucho, a great time of year to do the NC500 too. Island time sounds like a decent plan, you will love them. Let us know how you get on. Thanks for watching friends. See you on the road. 🚐🚐🚐👍🙏
@@TheNewbys Thanks T&J&C I'd love to meet you on the road at some point - with our growing Lab puppy - Henry ((9 months or so now and a big muppet) Let us know where you are headed and if the planets align we can sync up and take a walk together.
@@ukgroucho nice plan UKgroucho, a long walk with a crazy dog is always looked forward to. Our next stop will most likely be France, unless we can squeeze in a trip back to Wales before then. Let’s see. 🐾🦴🚶
Just found this channel. What great vlogs. Excellent editing and filming. Fantastic voice overs, sound very professional 👌 PS. Connected to the finish angle, been living in the Tampere area for 22 years now 🇫🇮
Hi Gavin, sorry for the slow reply, we are normally lots better than that. We have been off grid completely the last few days, where we are right now it’s a bit tricky. 👍 Thanks for watching friend or should we say Kiitos Paljon 👍👍. You live in an epic country and we will return. Hope to hear from you again. 🙏🚐🇫🇮
Hey guys! Great to hear from you friends, its been quite a week! Hope you had a great trip, how could it have been anything else but brilliant, right?!! Thanks so much for watching and taking this journey with us, your support is so very much appreciated! 👍🙏🚐
Hi Loris, Crusoe has some very kind great aunties that like to knit. Most live in Scotland are close friends with John’s mum. Thanks to them! These jumpers and blankets will almost certainly be hand me downs for years to come. Good spot Loris and thanks for watching. 👍🙏😃
the outer hebrides looked very much like the west of ireland and mainland scotland does too but to a much lesser extent much wilder and dramatic than anything we have in ireland,but the hebrides looked very much like donegal ,west mayo ,connemara westand south kerry and west cork.Those famine roads are built were built or attempted to built all over ireland as well
Hi Gwendolyn, great to hear from you. We were in Scotland around May time. Perfect. You will have a great trip we are sure! Thanks for watching friend. 👍🙏🏴
Love this video! I'm planning a campervan trip to Skye, Uist and Harris/Lewis. Did the ferries require you to have a campsite booking? My campervan is 100% solar/offgrid, so hoping to be a bit less planned.
Hi Ryan, good to hear from you. Thanks for your message. We were not required to have campsite bookings to board a ferry. In Harris there are designated wild camping spots. Sounds like you have a great trip planned. Uist some people might not like if you wild camp so pick your locations carefully, and worth being mindful of Crofters land which looks unused but is private land. 👍🏴🙏
Thanks Jay! We’re so super keen to get to Canada to see the bears there too - let’s hope the world opens up again soon enough. Take care and thanks for tuning in and being a part of our journey. 😎
@@TheNewbys Canada is a must, especially for you guys. My wife, teenage son and I toured the Rockies and had the most amazing time. Mountains, ice cold lakes, waterfalls and forests beyond anything we had seen before. And then there is the wildlife - won't ever forget watching my wife and son's faces as a black bear wandered out across a road in front of us.
Tolles Video!! Wieviel Tage habt Ihr in Uist und Lewis & Harris investiert? Mir ist klar, dass man hier auch 2 Wochen verbringen kann. Aber wieviel Zeit, wenn man nur für die wichtigsten Stops Zeit hat?
Hi Christine, we think you could do Lewis and Harris in three or four days if you were in a hurry and Uist in one or two. Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend. 🐘🚐👍🙏
Another awesome video. I’m sure I heard a rumour you were going to do 2 videos per week??? It’s too tough having to wait for Sunday to watch the next instalment!
Thanks so much for tuning in and being a part of our journey! If you're new around here please remember to SUBSCRIBE, and why not come and join us in real time over on Instagram instagram.com/thenewbys/?hl=en and if you'd like more content and to support our journey further come and hang out with us on Patreon www.patreon.com/thenewbys Thank you so much, and remember BE BRAVE, THING BIG, EXPLORE!
Wow going in Time Tara, John and little Crusoe you keep showing in my page with your past travels today in the Hebrides. Was lovely to see your niece Summer. Too bad you could not stay longer. Did you know FYI the Callanish Stones on the west coast of the island of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland were used by the Starz TV series, Outlander (2014), as a model for a fictional stone circle near Culloden called Craigh na Dun. The stones are depicted in the show as having time-travel abilities when touched. Funny time-travel all fantasy we know but folklore vividly speaking through what these islands have shown in time. Great to see you all again. Many blessings as you continue your projects in Portugal. Next time with Sawyer revisiting Scotland Lord willing. Many blessings 🙏💖🥰👶👱🏴🇵🇹
Oh wow this video brought back beautiful memories for me. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. If I had the opportunity to relocate, it would definitely be to the Hibrides or somewhere on the highlands to live in a croft in a tiny village. Scotland is the country my heart belongs to ❤
So lovely to watch this video from Egypt. Sometimes I miss Scotland... thank you for gifting us this amazing adventure! And so adorable to see Crusoe so little again xx
Thanks so much Anouk! Great to have you along for our journey, we so appreciate the support.
A few years ago I spent Christmas on the Isle of Harris, on the Christmas morning I was parked on Luskentyre Beech sat outside my van in shorts and crocs eating toast and
Hi Mark! Great to hear from you and thanks for sharing, wow - amazing to hear that you could don a pair of shorts on Christmas Day in Harris! Wonderful. Thanks for tuning in, great to have you with us. 😎
@@TheNewbys no worries..
Thank you! We are from Uist and live on Lewis - what a joy to journey around our homeland with you!
Ah amazing! Thanks so much for watching friends ❤️❤️❤️
New subscriber Mikel. Having fun watching you craft your very sweet new build with Tara and (Robinson) Caruso. Thank you for sharing your terrific adventures with us. Please Stay Well
Welcome Mikel! So great to have you with us, we really appreciate your support and we’re excited to share our adventures with you! Have a happy weekend and we will see you on Sunday 😊 ☀️
I’m showing my hubby all your videos to try and get him in the adventure mood!
He’s now agreed to try it for a short trip 😃
He has put in a floor, a slide out sideways bed and side shelves in my small electric van.
I’ve been on several day trips in the Cotswolds, a 10 day trip with a friend and last week I went on my own first ever solo trip (to Devon & Cornwall).
Your videos are really uplifting and inspiring, thank you 😊
Thank you!! That’s such a lovely comment and we’re so pleased that we’re getting your hubby in the travel mood too! And, well done for your first solo adventure, we hope it was a massive success? We can’t wait for Portugal and some nice hot sunshine! Thanks so much for being here and see you next week x
Yes it was wonderful thanks, the highlight was lying in bed with the door open, looking at a vast open view watching the sun set.
I was watching the latest The Indie Projects on TH-cam today too, who are renovating a barn in Portugal, you’ve probably heard of them, they say it’s 30c, so look looks like you’re definitely in for some hot sunshine! Have a wonderful time:)
Those views from open doors, and the places you can get the van in to. Priceless! Wooohooooo! Hot weather and guaranteed sunshine!!! Can’t wait. Crusoes first flight on Wednesday, let’s see how that works out. :)
What a fantastic part of Scotland it is. Almost like Florida or The Bahamas!
You almost can’t believe it’s in the UK! 😎 🏝
@@TheNewbys That´s the real beauty of it.
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I mean, honestly, little Crusoe has a gift, he has brought you sunshine in the Highlands and Islands. Not 5 minutes of sunshine but actual semi sunny days. God loves you and the CalMac. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
Good morning Sheildag! Great to hear from you friend, its been quite a week! Crusoe is indeed our lucky charm and it seems we find sunshine with him every day. Thank goodness for CalMac too!! Thanks so much for watching and taking this journey with us, your support is so very much appreciated! 👍🙏🚐
thanks again for sharing this great video. Never been to the islands of Harris & Lewis although I had stayed in Scotland for 1 year. Love to see your baby boy who travelled with you in the campervan. He is so cute and lovely. (12:39)
Thank you Jacky! Crusoe sends lots of hugs and we all send our thanks for watching. great to have you along for this adventure. 🇵🇹❤️🙏
Hebrides... Stunning! Absolutely beautiful!
Very very special place! ❤️☀️💙
Just found you guys today and so glad I did! Lovely collage of breathtaking Scottish panoramas, a little bit of historical information on the sites, countryside, villages, overhead and close-ups shots, food, weather, good energy........such delightful videos. Thank you for sharing. You have a new subscriber!
Thank you Bearin29. Thanks so much for watching and taking this journey with us, your support is so very much appreciated! 👍🙏🚐
Loving this video so close to The Island of Mull ,where my Family started more than a hundred years ago My Great Great Grandparents born and raised and lived till immigrating to America 🇺🇸
Have jst found u guys, and coincidentally ur doing my home country of Scotland
I have had a catchup binge and am subscribed for all future adventures for ur gorgeous wee family
Davie x
Hi Davie, great to hear from you. THANK YOU! We love your home country, Scotland was a great trip, we will be back. Next week, we are in Portugal! Look out for that one. Great to have you along with us. 🙏👍😎
So many amazing views. Love the thatched roofs in that village they are amazing. Great tour of the islands. Adding this to my travel list
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You do an amazing job to say you have a baby with you, such a joy to watch especially as Caruso is growing so much
Hi Jane! Thank you 🙏. It’s great to hear from you. Our little man is a super hero we are sure, puts up with a mummy and daddy that drag him all over! Great to have you with us.
Absolutely love the quality & content of your videos. Well done on the van build meanwhile with a newborn. You travelled into a part of the world I’ve not even heard of, very fascinating learning about the history.
Thanks V, great to hear from you. :) we are really enjoying putting these videos together. Appreciate you dropping us a line and your support. Thank you 🙏 👍☀️
I loved the black house village. I would love to see the inside of them. Thanks for taking me along.
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Awesome vlog. We call that weather "a mixed bag" back in Newfoundland, or if you phone and ask , how's the weather, they likely will say RDF(rain, drizzle and fog). The village reminds me of Lanse Aux Meadows viking village in Newfoundland. The circle stones are so interesting. Imagine life back then makes me appreciate all we have today.
Agreed Peter, we are lucky souls to be so comfortable and to be able to travel. Love to Newfoundland and the RDF!
Really enjoy your travels. Thank you for sharing them with us. Susan
Thanks Susan, great to hear from you. We really enjoy the travelling and love that we can share our journey. Thanks very much for watching. We are looking forward to our next destination. Any thoughts? 👍🙏🚐
Another lovely video. Brightens up my Sunday. 😃
That means a lot to us Emma, thank you so much for being here.
Love Thatch on houses but theses days so expensve! So quaint!
Immensely enjoy your brilliant video journeys & your wee one too. Hope to see more about your renovation in Portugal. All the best to you!
Thanks Jutta! Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend. 🇵🇹🏡👍
Intresting to see different parts in the Uk.
Hi Marcus, good to hear from you. Thanks for your comment. Do you have any special Places that you could recomend we visit? Thanks!!
@@TheNewbys The Lake District and maybe the Southwest parts of England.
@@marcuswagar7246 Thanks for the tips, the Lakes might have to be on our list. Excellent, we are also thinking about a hike up Snowdon.
Thank you so much for doing this video. My granny (Mhairi McDougall) was born into a family in Knockintorran who had lived in the same croft for six generations. At 16, she emigrated to Canada, married a gold prospector, then returned to live in Dundee for the rest of her life. We have only visited North Uist once (in 1989) on foot so got no further than Lochmaddy - camping on the ferry terminal in the pouring rain. Now we have retired and seen your vlog, a return trip is required!
That’s an amazing heritage Judith, and you should definitely go back, it’s a beautiful place, so wild and untouched in many ways, and the crofting families are still many generations deep as it were! Thanks for being here.
Really enjoying your Scottish content. New followers here. 👍
Hi G and J journey, thank you for subscribing, and for joining this journey. Great to have you along for the adventure. 🙏🚐👍
Fantastic footage in all weather - just stunning - amazing how Crusoe looks that little bit older in just one week!
Thanks so much Sue! He really is changing by the day at the moment, we are loving watching him grow and no doubt these videos will be amazing to return to in years to come. Thanks again for watching!!
Great video, enjoyed it yet again. Proper Scottish weather that, pizza looked lovely as well!
Thanks guys!
Hi just wanted to say thank you all so much for your videos which we do enjoy... we are near retirement and can't wait to be off on trips like yours but making the most of the waiting. Crusoe is absolutely charming thank you for sharing with us. We have been inspired to go to the uists and skye after your recent video where your "photography" and drone footage is just wonderful. You find great places to visit and watching is like having a mini holiday ourselves. Once we are retired hope to follow your footsteps to scandinavia too... Very best wishes from Caroline and Bob and our dog Molly near Cambridge Cambs.
Glorious scenery, weather nice or not, dramatic at every turn. That was really enjoyable, thanks. Looking forward to your next adventure.
Thanks Claire, really pleased you enjoyed that, we certainly did. Next adventure will be NC500 west coast, this time next week, we are LOVING Scotland, and finding it very difficult to leave. 😂😊🤩 hope to see you again next week.
Lovely trip, thank you ❤️
Beautiful landscapes, dramatic weather! Thank you for sharing X
Hey Carla my friend. How are you! What an adventure these islands have been. We are now battling more weather on the NC500. Fantastic. Hope all is well with you, fingers crossed we are able to head south soon and find the sun. ☀️👍😎
My wife and i are looking forward to doing the NC500 in 2023 in our campervan and we both love the vidoe you have put on youtube.
my only thourght about your vidoe is half way through your steering wheel changed from right hand drive to left hand drive
Hey Keith! Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend. Good spot about the steering wheel. We edited the van so that it travelled in the opposite direction which reversed everything. Have fun on your NC500 trip. You will love it!! 👍❤️🙏
What an amazing country, bleak but amazingly beautiful in its own way. Loved seeing this special family take all that was thrown at them in their stride. Roll on Sunday.
Loved this video, one of our favourites. Thanks for watching again!!!
I love your videos. My ancestors on both Mother and Father's are from North Uist. They came over to Canada on the ship The Hector in the early 1800. My dream is to someday travel to Scotland. I live in Cape Breton and it is very much like Scotland. Fortress Louisburg and Alexander Graham Bell museum and of course the famous Cabot Trail are some of the highlights. My ancestors were Morrison and MacCuish.
Thanks Brenda! Thanks for sharing, Scotland is a very beautiful country to visit! Thanks so much for watching and taking this journey with us, your support is so very much appreciated! 👍🙏❤️
Just watched your NC500 video and loved your enthusiasm. Loving the channel and so glad you are enjoying my home country. Carpe diem!
Hi Steven. Great to hear from you! Thanks very much for the kind words. Most appreciated. Scotland’s is fantastically beautiful. We will be back!!! 👍🏴🙏
Visited Shetland a few years ago. Couldn't even stand up straight it was so windy. When we got back to Skye the wind was 80 miles an hour. Our tent broke early the next day and we had to pack up and leave, we'd do it all again in a heartbeat x
Sorry meant stornoway🙃
Wowzers!! Sounds crazy Pauline! We did giggle while on Uist that everyone’s laundry was horizontal most of the time, they do deal with Mother Nature in all her glory up there. So great that you’d do it all again despite the tent debacle, speaks of the beauty and adventure there is to be had up there. Happy Sunday and thanks for being here.
TheNewbys have to add, my pal and I are in our 60s, we started camping about ten years ago and have had many adventures. Our families think we're bonkers but they're proud really.
Nice. The Outer Hebrides are on my list. What time of year was it? The temperature was 2° at one point I believe you said.
We were up there in late May. It was cold on some evenings but mostly the weather was good, and no midges!!! Thanks for your question. 👍🤩
Hello,
Lovely videos but please get an aluminum rear worn baby carrier. Tripping forwards you could crush Cruso or your next one! Several times on the videos you’re walking along with Cruso on the front and your hands in your pockets. It’s up to you but a friend crushed their baby doing exactly that. They survived fortunately. Some of the paths you’re on, you could easily trip. Apart from that keep up the good work.
Hey David! Thanks so much for the concern and taking the time to write, we have had the same thought and have a new carrier for Crusoe which can take him on our backs now that his neck strength is a bit better. We are of course always thinking about him and his safety first, and would never want to put him at risk or in harms way and so appreciate any and all advice. Have a super week and thanks again for watching!
@@TheNewbys it wasn’t a criticism but you can get rear ones for very small people that protect their necks made of aluminum like a roll cage and they can grow into them. I have my own two kids now 12 and 15 yrs old but we were very active when they were little. Regards
Thanks David, no criticism felt at all friend, we’re genuinely very grateful for the advice. We could look into those carriers for number two perhaps, they sound great. All the best!
Another fantastic video. Thanks for sharing.
`Thanks Sylvia!! Today we have Meerkats to watch! Crusoe meets Meerkats, and it's very cool!!! :)
Amazing views thankyou for sharing.
Thank you for watching Sheila x
Thoroughly enjoy joining you on your journey. I am a bit out of sequence but that’s ok as long as the ones I watch covering your Portuguese farm are in order. I often google places you visit to learn more saddle did not catch name of place so could not find anything on the Sone mills in northern Spain…I did however find a bit about Hercules bear and thought your followers may like to know that some time after he ran away to joking the circus lol he Went on to appear in the film Octupusy, the James Bond film.
Haha wow - that is super cool!! Thanks for sharing!!!
We’re off to Harris this summer in august! Loved your video and the pizza tip!! Xx
Have a wonderful time friends. It’s a beautiful part of the world. Thanks for watching and leaving us a comment. ❤️🙏👍
I’m loving your coverage of these remote Scottish isles that I have been planning to explore for a while now as will definitely help plan my own adventure so thank you ever so much. Look forward to more from you 😊
Thank you so much Dainty Cakerie. Your trip to the islands will be amazing we are certain of that. Good luck and let us know how you enjoy it! Thanks so much for watching and taking this journey with us, your support is so very much appreciated! 👍🙏🚐
Hi now let’s see if I have got your names correct,Tara John Crusoe ,really hope I have got them right ,wow I really enjoyed your trip so John do you come from there as your mum sister live on the island,some beautiful sites on them and the History you both tell us is fantastic,thank you for the ride ,till next time take care keep safe,John 👀🥂❤️🌹🌈🍺👌👌
Hi John, yes you have all names correct and spellings exact. A bit more about us. Tara is from Zimbabwe, John is from Oxford and Crusoe was born about two meters away from where his dad was born, also Oxford! Crusoe of course named after Robinson Crusoe, one of John’s favourite books. Thanks so much for watching our vlogs John it is great to have you with us!!
Thank you for showing us Scotland! Your filming skills are very impressive! Colours are so vibrant, I love your style of filming and editing. Can’t wait to see all of it myself! Is the weather being kinder for you?
As always all the best 👨👩👦😊
Thanks so much Iza, we so appreciate that and we’ve been a little luckier with the weather since. especially when you consider it’s Scotland! 😂 Great to have you with us, we so appreciate it. Have a wonderful week! 😎 xx
Fantastic, mesmerising landscapes once again. Fascinated by the historic local houses with rocks on ropes holding down thatched roofs. Never seen that before. Waiting for Crusoe to be impressed by something though....mum & dad trying hard but Crusoe insisting on staying zoned-out and chilled (sometimes literally) about everything. Is he practicing to be a teenager?
Hi Flaneur, great to hear from you friend! You noticed the ropes too, we were fascinated by them, what a great solution to a windy problem!! We have been loving Scotland, and find our selves here for 3 weeks already. So much to see and do. Thanks as ever for your support, great to know you’re out there. :) 😊👍🛖
New subscribers here, great vlog. We are going to the Outer Hebrides in September for 2 weeks and can’t wait.
Hey guys, great to hear from you. Thanks for subscribing! Good luck with your trip, let us know how you get on. Those £5 camper slots in Harris = winner!!! 👍
I love your videos but this one is especially special to me. Note to self go and see the village towards the end of the video. It featured on ‘Call the midwife.’
Now there is a very interesting fact! Thanks mum!
What a fantastic adventure to capture on video. I love your choice of name for your son. Please keep making videos.
Thank you Todd, that’s so great to hear. We promise to keep documenting our little family adventure, and we’re really grateful to have you along for the ride. See you next Sunday!
Fantastic. Well done and thanks a ton
Thanks Andrew, we so appreciate that.
This was sooo sooo beautiful… Crusoe seems to be enjoying as well… After watching u guys it feels like i wanna visit those places too… Great content and u guys are courageous to travel
With such baby on board… Good luck keep growing n keep travelling 🧳🚚
Thanks Pooja! Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend. Crusoe has now been to 23 countries in his first 14 months of life, and it’s been terrific fun. Lots of adventure. Thanks for leaving us such a friendly comment. 👍❤️❤️🙏
Lovely footage. You guys take be to places l want to be instead of the 9 to 5 rat race.
Thank You
Hi David, great to hear from you. Thanks, Madrid is a really pretty city. Next time we will spend longer there. Thanks for watching friend. 🙏👍
Hi. We found your wee channel planning for our own Harris and Lewis adventure this coming August. Well impressed you did all this and with a little ‘un in tow! Well done on your great Scotland video series. Stunning scenery 👍
That’s so exciting to hear guys! You’re going to love it, it’s spectacular up there, Harris especially is incredible. We’d love to hear how you get on, have a great time and thanks so much for tuning in and being here, we really appreciate it. Have a great week! X
@@TheNewbys Thankyou. We can’t wait. You have a great week too ☺️
Thanks!
Just come across your channel. Love the Hebrides. We’re heading over to Uist in July. Really enjoyed watching this. 😀
Hi Karen, great to hear from you!! You are in for a real treat, the Outer Hebrides are fantastic. Please do let us know how your trip goes! Have fun! 👍
Superb video, what an amazing place!
Can’t wait to return as it’s been 7 years since we were there 😍
Thanks so much guys! Hope you get back up there soon, it’s so amazing isn’t it x
:lovely! In our first year of campervan ownership and our first major trip was the NC500 - about the same time that you did it. We decided that next May is island time... got another Northumberland and Scotland trip in September (with a little Welsh coast 3 nighter before) ... We'll get to the best part of 50 nights this year, maybe a bit more which is great.
WOWZERS!! 50 nights in your van, that’s good work UKgroucho, a great time of year to do the NC500 too. Island time sounds like a decent plan, you will love them. Let us know how you get on. Thanks for watching friends. See you on the road. 🚐🚐🚐👍🙏
@@TheNewbys Thanks T&J&C I'd love to meet you on the road at some point - with our growing Lab puppy - Henry ((9 months or so now and a big muppet) Let us know where you are headed and if the planets align we can sync up and take a walk together.
@@ukgroucho nice plan UKgroucho, a long walk with a crazy dog is always looked forward to. Our next stop will most likely be France, unless we can squeeze in a trip back to Wales before then. Let’s see. 🐾🦴🚶
@@TheNewbys We're gonna head to Shell Island (North of Barmouth) for 3 nights before the Northumberland / Scotland revisit :)
@@ukgroucho big love to that idea!! We are hoping for a Scotland return in late October. Let us know how you get on with Barmouth. 👍
Great vlog views and I go perfect!
Might be busy mainland enjoy the 500 cu Sunday 😁
Thanks John! We’ve loved the NC500, the west coast in particular has the most epic scenery. See you Sunday! 😎 thanks so much again for watching.
Just found this channel. What great vlogs. Excellent editing and filming. Fantastic voice overs, sound very professional 👌
PS. Connected to the finish angle, been living in the Tampere area for 22 years now 🇫🇮
Finnish 😁
Hi Gavin, sorry for the slow reply, we are normally lots better than that. We have been off grid completely the last few days, where we are right now it’s a bit tricky. 👍 Thanks for watching friend or should we say Kiitos Paljon 👍👍. You live in an epic country and we will return. Hope to hear from you again. 🙏🚐🇫🇮
You walked in our paw prints 🐾 🐾 on Luskintyre Beach. We were lucky enough to get three nights in the spaces at Seilibost School
Hey guys! Great to hear from you friends, its been quite a week! Hope you had a great trip, how could it have been anything else but brilliant, right?!! Thanks so much for watching and taking this journey with us, your support is so very much appreciated! 👍🙏🚐
Your whole vibe rocks!
Thanks Joanne! 🙏👍
Hello, love the video. May I ask what time of year this was filmed? Thank you kindly :) I am moving to Stornoway next month :D
Hi Curtis! We filmed that around April. Beautiful time of year. Good luck with the move friend. Great to hear from you, thanks for watching! 🙏👍❤️
Lovely trip as always. I always notice that Crusoe often has beautiful hand knitted jumpers, who’s the clever knitter?
Hi Loris, Crusoe has some very kind great aunties that like to knit. Most live in Scotland are close friends with John’s mum. Thanks to them! These jumpers and blankets will almost certainly be hand me downs for years to come. Good spot Loris and thanks for watching. 👍🙏😃
Those beaches look fantastic. I am curious - are the islands plagued with the dreaded Scottish midge, or does the surrounding sea keep them at bay?
Hi Bob! They do have them yes, but thankfully we were a bit early in the year 😊
the outer hebrides looked very much like the west of ireland and mainland scotland does too but to a much lesser extent much wilder and dramatic than anything we have in ireland,but the hebrides looked very much like donegal ,west mayo ,connemara westand south kerry and west cork.Those famine roads are built were built or attempted to built all over ireland as well
That’s so cool to hear, we’re very keen to get to Ireland sometime soon! We’ve heard it’s beautiful 🌟
@@TheNewbys You will be very welcome
Excellent. Will get straight into it.
Hi Colby, good to hear from you again friend. Pleased you enjoyed the video! 👍😎🤩
@@TheNewbys I did. I loved it. Reminds me of Donegal, where I spend most of my time when in Ireland.
Wonderful video! What time of year were you there? We are hoping our trip isn’t postponed again, we are going April and May.
Hi Gwendolyn, great to hear from you. We were in Scotland around May time. Perfect. You will have a great trip we are sure! Thanks for watching friend. 👍🙏🏴
Thank you for this. I am going there soon so I am making notes. ilona
Hi Meanqueen! Great to hear from you and thanks for watching. You will for sure have an excellent trip. Best of luck!! Thanks 🙏🏼
wow..i love the accent ❤❤😊😊
Just watched your video, fantastic 🐝
Thank you!!! Xx
Love this video! I'm planning a campervan trip to Skye, Uist and Harris/Lewis. Did the ferries require you to have a campsite booking? My campervan is 100% solar/offgrid, so hoping to be a bit less planned.
Hi Ryan, good to hear from you. Thanks for your message. We were not required to have campsite bookings to board a ferry. In Harris there are designated wild camping spots. Sounds like you have a great trip planned. Uist some people might not like if you wild camp so pick your locations carefully, and worth being mindful of
Crofters land which looks unused but is private land. 👍🏴🙏
Great vids love all that history
Thanks so much guys! Beautiful part of the world, that's for sure.
What time of the year did you got Scotland...It's high on our bucket list
Hi Anneke, we were there in April May time. I think! Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend.
Your niece is so beautiful and sweet looks exactly like Her Uncle John xoxo 😘
Am confused why @@12min are you driving a left hand drive..?do you have 2 vans?
Hi KG. Good question, well noticed!! We may have reversed a clip?? Thanks for watching friend!! 👍
Fantastic video 🐝
Thanks so much Natalie!
That’s a little scary how quick the tide came back in.
Looks nice white sand 👍🏻 lots of bears where I live “real ones” lol 🇨🇦 thx
Thanks Jay! We’re so super keen to get to Canada to see the bears there too - let’s hope the world opens up again soon enough. Take care and thanks for tuning in and being a part of our journey. 😎
@@TheNewbys Canada is a must, especially for you guys. My wife, teenage son and I toured the Rockies and had the most amazing time. Mountains, ice cold lakes, waterfalls and forests beyond anything we had seen before. And then there is the wildlife - won't ever forget watching my wife and son's faces as a black bear wandered out across a road in front of us.
Tolles Video!! Wieviel Tage habt Ihr in Uist und Lewis & Harris investiert? Mir ist klar, dass man hier auch 2 Wochen verbringen kann. Aber wieviel Zeit, wenn man nur für die wichtigsten Stops Zeit hat?
Hi Christine, we think you could do Lewis and Harris in three or four days if you were in a hurry and Uist in one or two. Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend. 🐘🚐👍🙏
Another awesome video. I’m sure I heard a rumour you were going to do 2 videos per week??? It’s too tough having to wait for Sunday to watch the next instalment!
Hahaha two videos a week and a baby...we wish! Thanks Felix, that really means a lot to us. Hope you’re well and that we see you guys soon. 😎 xx
I love all of the United kingdom. I have been in Wales, Scotland, Ierland and England. I would like to live there.
Hi Zeehondje, great to hear from you. Wonderful part of our world. We hope you achieve your dreams to live here. Good luck friend!!
Lovely video. And of course, the islands have been the site of several great Christian revivals.
Thanks friend. We love it up there. ❤️❤️
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4:24 Am I’m missing something!?
Hi Tom and Joe, not sure what you mean there. Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend.
@@TheNewbys it looks like there’s someone dressed with a Halloween mask on 🤣, might just be the lighting haha
Subscribe & Liked Am Also from Scotland
Thanks Donna, it is great to have you along with us. Scotland = amazing and we are planning a return very soon. First though, and next up, Portugal!!
Some really nice footage - Dropped you a sub for the future :)
Thanks Rosie. Great to hear from you! Appreciate your sub!! Enjoy your travels friend. :) 🙏👍
Hercules also got to meet Margret Thatcher lol
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LOVE IT!!!