Forget the NC500? Reindeer try and enter our van in The Cairngorms National Park!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- We arrive in the Cairngorms after spending 2 months traveling around Scotland in our self-converted Ford Transit, La Bamba. After visiting the rugged Isle of Skye we followed the NC500 around Scotland's Northern tip, but now we head inland to the heart of Scotland. The Cairngorm's National park is a huge area of rugged mountains.
On arriving we explore Avimore in the search of a vegan breakfast, before driving off into the hills above Loch Morlich. While parked up here we are visited by a herd of reindeer who surprise us by appearing at the window of our van.
The next day we go foraging before moving on to an amazingly secluded park up, we use the near by stream to wash in the icy waters, visit lots of forests in the local area and visit the Highland Folk Museum.
The end of the week sees us visiting three amazing waterfalls in one day. The falls of Bruar, the falls of Acharn and the Birks of Aberfeldy. We spend that evening in Pitlochry where we enjoy pints, charity shops and get a chippy.
This week sees us reach the bottom of the Cairngorms, but fear not, we will be making a U-turn before re-entering the national park next week on the east of the mountains.
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I love your spirit of facing challenges. You two are so beautiful
Thank you so much 🤗
Always make time for yourselves, it is after all YOUR adventures. We’re so lucky that you invite us along for the ride 😘😇🚐🐢
Lovely stuff 😊
Isabele is so full of energy. My goodness to take that bath in the cold river.
Just discovered you channel a couple of weeks ago, and currently at this episode. We live in Scotland and you probably passed our wee town recently. The channel is fantastic, well done guys, loving the content. Keep it up 👍👍👍
we had the same vegan breakfast when we was there cracking spot
Living the dream l Pray for a safe journey for you both
Scotland looks beautiful love your energy and vibe. Im
So excited for ye touring around amidst the lovely waterfalls and woods and beaches of course. Cool seeing the reindeer
The pasta you made looks crazy awesome and what a beautiful spot
Added this spot to my bucket list. So pretty - loved the wildlife sighting.
Yeah, never expected to see them. Very beautiful moment
I love your chilled style guys. Discovered your channel a few days ago (Wild Atlantic Way trip), and I'm super jealous. Looks like an amazing way to live.
Hey thank you so much for the lovely message - so pleased to hear you're enjoying the channel - If you do get a chance this WAW is an amazing road trip to do!! very special xx
Cairngorms is an amazing place for sure👍
Except for the midges tho🪰
aha luckily the midges were not about much when we were there - they sound bad in summer!
Wow the views are amazing and also waterfall's . Thank you for sharing your amazing travels ❤️
Hey Hugh - they really are aren't they - thank you so so much for watching!!
Laggan Village heading west from Newtonmore, turn right into village and follow the road till the Loch free camping and stunning 👍
Next time for sure! Thanks for sharing
Cairngorms park up .. doesn't get much better than that. 💯
Stunning scenery throughout the video.
Look forward to the next one. 😎
Thanks for all the support Xp! I had better get editing
These park ups were so good. Couldn't have asked for more :)
Yes - That was fun - Thanks
Thanks for watching John! Really appreciate it.
Cool video, enjoying watching you visit places I went to many years ago. Reminds me I must get up there again. Andy UK
Scotland is brilliant, so nice to venture of into the highlands. glad we could jog a few memories for you. hope you get up to alba before too long
Another great vlog, not watching them in order though!! Enjoying all the information you are telling about the places as I haven't been to any of them......I live in Belfast...
Hey Rosemary great to see you watching more of our videos! no worries you watch whatever order works for you!! ha so pleased to hear you're enjoying them!
Fantastic, making a great documentary there. Keep warm.
Thanks for watching. The jumpers are out and the kettle is on.
Might be nice in the summer
Wow have to go there
Lovely area, we've only passed through once before on our way to Skye 10 years ago. However we've recently bought a van.....a Transit van! It's a ready built Autosleeper. Just starting out on van life!
Woo hoo, hope you have a blast, we love traveling in the van, it really is the best way to explore. Also #teamtransit
Nice vlog mate but the foraging thing !!! People need to know what’s safe & what’s not
I did “liked it” 😀
Such a beautiful area, think you're crazy to wild swim in that temperature though. Hope you had some single malt left over to warm you up 😁
Unfortunately the single malts never seem to last all that long, haha.
It is super cold to be honest, we do actually both have really good wetsuits, so we may need to dust them off soon.
Liking the foraging stuff ,✌🏻
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Where did you learn what you can eat thats got to be so cool.
Hey Paul! Tom studied forestry so that developed his interest in foraging and helped him learn how to ID plants. We have a couple books on mushrooms and scotland is the place to go for that! so much fun! we worked on a campsite in scotland a few years ago and there were porcini mushrooms to harvest every day in the woodland near by! was so cool!
These locations are beautiful. But like Ireland you have to pick early visits inland and van stops at night on the coast if possible. The reason for this is the midge black fly in summer will drive you crazy. The get into everything your food ears etc. anywhere the female can get a blood meal to start laying eggs. Insect repellent works a bit but the midge in summer will drive you mental.
First time watching your channel, enjoyed that , looked like you had a great time , …. Subscibed & 👍
Hello Ian,
Glad you enjoyed it and a huge thank you for liking and subscribing. We are loving our Scottish adventures!
@@LostInTransit I just got a camper van for my 50th birthday , quite basic atm , just a full size rock and roll bed in it , but been out nearly every weekend since having it , think I have it on one of my videos , early 50 th present , cheers , ……. Watched a few videos of yours now , great content , easy going , relaxed , and very enjoyable . 👍
Aviemore looks lovely, the Cairngorms is on our to do list 🙂
Great vlog, we've subscribed 👍
The Cairngorms are incredible, maybe my favourite place in the UK! Thanks for subscribing, I had better get editing this week's vlog then :/
Another awesome vid. We love the Falls of Bruar. I posted a video on my Instagram page from 27/09/21 of the raging falls in flood when we were last there. It was a pretty spectacular site!
Hey Davey aw thanks for watching our vids ! Wow that must have been so crazy to see in a flood!
My misses is a wim Hoff instructor
Also building a transit for wondering 🙂
Just found u guys. Hello from
Scotland 💚✊🏻🏴 how did you enjoy Scotland compared to the other places you’ve been?
We absolutely love Scotland I (Tom) went to uni in Aberdeen and we have both spent a lot of time up there. I’m sure we will be back again soon!
Great VLOG & Great to see another take on the areas I have visited often, sister stays in inverness.......heard in the VLOG a few times that Isabel had to work, what work do you do while on the road.
It is such an incredible place. Isabel works for a helpline, giving out information to colleagues
Hey, what's the name of the vegan cafe you visited in Aviemore? That breakfast looks absolutely amazing!
Hey Luke, the cafe was called Route 7. It was just what we needed, a nice fry up to kick the day off
@@LostInTransit thanks! And keep it up, enjoying the content. Been tempted to travel around Highlands for some time, but haven't got around to it.
You suited your paul weller hair cut
Just saying 😊
Maybe leave a few mushrooms for other people? Just a thought.
We didn’t make a dent in it, there were millions everywhere
We are planning to go there in May. Any advice regarding ghe weather? Is it still some kind of winter and we need winter tires on the car?
You should be fine in may, we are here now in February and we don’t have winter tiers. May should be quite nice, often nicer than the summer months in my opinion.
Great adventure can I ask why as so many vanlifers vegan?
I guess vanlife tends to appeal to a certain type of person, but yeah it is weird, nearly all TH-cam vanlifers appear to be vegan. I (Tom) actually loved meat & cheese and sometimes feel I'm missing out on a bit of the local culture by not eating the food, but we are trying to minimise our impact on the planet and reduce suffering where we can. If I need to eat poor quality "cheese" and "ham" it doesn't feel like the worst sacrifice, especially with vegan food getting better each year.
Salve the conscience for flooding the atmosphere with diesel fumes ?
Would you guys ever get wetsuits so you can wild swim in all seasons
We have wetsuits but we don’t generally use them as it can be a pain to dry them out in the van in winter. We actually did wild swim throughout the winter in Ireland just had to embrace the cold
Did you see Am Fear Liath Mor ?
Amazing I had never heard of this, doing research now. Will definitely be keeping my eyes peeled next time we are up.
Hay guys may I ask what jobs you do from the road because it’s something I’d love to do
At this time Isabel was working for a covid helpline, providing answers on a chat. We are now in a position where we are living off our TH-cam earnings which is mind blowing to us.
So jealous! We aren’t allowed to take anything from our national parks…only pictures.
Were they liberty caps on the thatched roof?
Talk about a doorway to another world.
I actually don't think they were, plenty more at the wild swimming spot though so not to worry.
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its not blair atoll its athhhhol
Oh bum! I thought it was a bit of an odd place to find an atoll
Damp, cold and horrible
How did you guys learn to forage and what's safe to eat n what's not? I feel like so many mushrooms and Berries look the same I'd probably put myself in a&e lol x
Yeah it’s a slow journey. Take some classes, buy a good ID book, and join some Facebook groups. There are some excellent resources out there. The other thing is to try to learn the tastiest and easiest to ID first, maximum reward with minimum risk. Very basic is things like blackberries, cuckoo flower leaves, young beech leaves, wood sorrel. Mushrooms to focus on first would be chanterelles and ceps, just make sure you are confident before you eat
@@LostInTransit 🤣 yh will do lol thank you 🙂 and hope your both well love your channel especially the Scotland stuff 🙂 were planning a trip there next year we live in Cornwall and need to cram it all into two weeks as that's all my bloke could get off work at once lol but can't wait your videos make us even more excited for it 🙂 thank you for everything you guys do, love the channel ❤️🙂 xx