Flooded out in County Donegal - Van Life Ireland
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- We are driving our NV200 camper around Ireland. In this episode we escape from a flooded car park, pay a visit to Greencastle opposite Magilligan point, Ramelton and Fanad Lighthouse.
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Second viewing! Great video complete with amazing scenery, interesting commentary and music to match. Potato bread…yum!
Thanks for your support Michele. Second viewings are always good 😁👍
Another brilliant video by you two, thank you so much - it's a joy to see the beautiful Irish coastline
Thanks for watching 🙂
I’m addicted to your vlogs.....
hi Samantha good to hear that you enjoyed the videos. Thank you for your kind comment. 🙂👍
Another great video thanks very much love watching thim
Glad you enjoyed it Eamonn 🙂
Always a great pleasure to see the sea, aye! And the rain, the animals, the ferry (and the fairies behind the scenes)! Glorious dronescapism again! The sun had given you his grace! Trust your gut is what I live by too! Thank you for sharing. bear hugs, Kata
Thanks for watching Kata. Always trust your gut 😁👍
Another lovely video - thank you! Your videos are so lovely and your narration is just pitch perfect - you both have such wonderful calming speaking voices 😃👍🏻
I’m so sorry the weather has been so awful - I really hope you are enjoying Ireland. It’s wonderful to see tourists come and have fun.
Please let me know if there is anything you need help with 👍🏻🇮🇪🇬🇧
We are good thanks Mary. Yes we are still enjoying Ireland and embracing these unseasonal bouts of weather. I like calm videos as well so that’s what people will get from me. 👍
It was very nice. A
Nn wall
Ballymastocker Beach or strand. Strand is also beach in danish 🙂
I really like your videos. Watched them all and always looking forward to the next. I don't know why, but I do enjoy the parts when you prepare and eat your food, something cosy about it😊
You are not alone. Quite a few people enjoy the cooking and general life inside the van 👍
I have started researching small vans for an early retirement and came across your video on going to the loo. One of my biggest questions! On discovering your channel I have binge watched your little red van videos from the beginning. They are brilliantly filmed and full of really useful hints and tips as well as being entertaining. Thank you both.
You are welcome Caroline. We did the same when we started thinking about a van. If you can do it do it. Its a lovely way to travel 👍
You are the cutest couple.
We fitted Dubflecta deflectors on the windows of our California. We find this allows the windows to be open a couple of inches without the rain getting in. Enjoying your journeys thanks for sharing.
We fitted a set of deflectors and we can crack the front windows in the rain. I didn’t explain myself well in that clip. I knock the condensation on the head with the aircon and then we crack the front if it gets too hot 👍
No travel for USA. Miss our trips to Ireland (Cleggan) is where the ancestors hailed from and still live. Totally enjoying a ‘vicarious’ trip to Ireland.
The places you visit are beautiful, but I always seem to enjoy watching you guys cook 👩🍳!
You are not alone on that one Robert. We will endeavour to show more of that on future trips 👍
It just gets better and better.
Thanks Denny. 👍
If you have the chance you should go to visit Muckross House and Kylemore Abbey. Beautiful places.
And Glenveigh Castle in Donegal if you haven't already been there.
We visited Kylemore Abbey 👍. Have not seen Muckross House.
Missed that one.
Will we see a video about your visit at Kylemore?
Anita German yes that will be coming soon 👍
Love watching your videos. It is like I am touring and seeing everything with you. Always waiting for the next video.
Good to hear Lee 🙂
That’s wonderful. Thanks again for this vlog as well. Stay safe and stay blessed in the wild and wet Ireland.
You are welcome.
Your videos are great!. Not too short and not too long. Just like a Beatles song! Thanks
Spent a month in Ireland a few years ago. We home based in Glengarriff where our daughter and son-in-law own a bnb there. If you pass through stop at the pub in Casey's Hotel. The owner was very good friends with Maureen O'Hara. Ms. O'Hara lived there for 35 years.
Thanks very much 👍
You should travel to Wicklow..Glendalough is so beautiful..
Thanks for the tip 👍
I always say the same thing... trust your gut!! Glad you all were safe!!!
Best way Bunny. 👍
Another great vid.. pity about the weather..you were right to move on from that car park... always trust your gut.. stay safe and enjoy ireland
Thank you for sharing your experience, I am enjoying watching it , Damian Ryan
Great film, loved the drone shot of the ferry. I have feeling that you are destined to have many thousands of subscribers 👍 Keep up the good work❤️
Thanks John. Time will tell for sure 👍
Worth waiting to see the sun towards the end, great drone shots of the lighthouse. You did the right thing moving on, its not worth taking any chances and sounds like they were up to no good.
Yes not worth the potential hassle. There is always somewhere else to stop especially with a small camper 👍
Really enjoying your trip to my homeland.Unfortunetly the weather has been poor , think next week is to be better. Enjoy your photography and editing. Wishing you safe travels
Thank you Willie 👍
luv your
the scenery and the views,
fantastic.
im glad your safe, maybe you should of reported them people being up
to know good. i like what you had for your meals, yummy 😋
take care.
Thanks Moria 🙂
Hi great videos and documentary thanks,looks really comfortable in your red van just a shame you experienced some bad weather.
Sometimes it’s pouring but when that sun pops out we always get to see it in the camper 👍
Irish weather can be a little unpredictable. Another lovely video which again we have enjoyed immensely. TYFS.👍🐶🐾😀
The weather is not so bad. Not keen on strong winds and rain though as the drone has to stay in its bag. Its not the weather that hurts its missing a nice shot 😏👍
More beautiful scenery and music too!
I went to Greencastlr once and loved it...
But it was very torrential rain
Ramelton is interesting too. Been there back in the day.
There is a parrot story at that point...
We missed that. Mind you I was fast asleep 😏
@@LifeistooshortCK fair enough.
Loving your journey through Ireland, on my bucket list 🤗 so happy the sun shone on you finally. Absolutely loved your music and beautiful videos. Great narration and information delivered. One of my favorite views was looking over the gorge at the lighthouse. Appreciate your description of gut feeling as I’ve listened to mine in the past.👍 looking forward to episode 13 😁
Always go with your gut feeling. Never let me down yet 👍
Love the wild - preferably without the wet 🌧 ☔️. I now try to watch these videos when Peter is not in the room. If he saw this one I would never make it to Ireland. I was very pleased to hear you listened to your gut feeling. Please continue to and stay safe.
We have just clicked that N Shaw is you Nazeela 😁. We are so used to seeing your avatar in the Facebook groups that we were fooled. 👍 Don’t show Peter some of the videos coming up then because he will definitely not like some of the weather we have had so far 😏❤️
@@LifeistooshortCK Oh no! Do have a care with those flooded areas and stay dry. Wondering if there are higher models - camper SUV’s? for when you are ready to get a new one. P.S. It never occurred to me that you would not know that it was me.
Yes there are ones with higher clearance but a little bit of assessment before parking is what is needed 👍
Looks like you narrowly avoided a dogging situation ?? Takes all sorts.
The sun only lasted a day in yorkshire now on the 2nd day of rain. Looks like some lovely spots there, think we heading for anglesey at the weekend. Inspired by your coastal footage. Keep safe Ed.
Great video as always , stay safe , we look forward to your next instalment.
Thanks Paul 👍
Thanks for the app tip Pocket Earth. Love your videos - nice music selection too! Happy travels.🚗
Its an underrated app pocket earth. Keeps getting better 👍
Lovely video thank you
I really enjoyed your video as always
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Thanks Chris 👍
Thanks guys for another super video :-)
Cheers Fergus 👍
Watched a you tuber getting a parking ticket , well 2 tickets was that your little red van parked next door?
Yes that was us. We watched it live. 👍
Thank you for sharing your lovely travels with us. I would be interested to know what you have for breakfast, and also what you have for lunch on a day-to-day basis. Are you shopping every day for sandwiches for example? The fish that you cooked I am presuming was in a frying pan. It is a great set up that you have there, we went to Sussex Campervans to look at the van that you have. I think that we probably would’ve got it except that my partner is 6 foot four! We ended up with a VW in the end but it has quite basic cooking facilities, so I am interested in preparing meals easily and basically. Our cooker is just a portable gas stove.
It is a shame that you have had so much rain on your travels, when we went to Ireland about eight years ago it rained the whole two weeks! I think Ireland and also West Wales are renowned for it, lovely weather if you are a duck! 🚘 keep on trucking! ❤️
Hi Tina
6’4” you made the right choice in going one size bigger than us. 👍
Food in the campervan
A lot of people seem interested in what we eat on the road so we will have to start covering that more in the videos.
The real limiting factor in a campervan in our case is space to store supplies. We now use our biggest cupboard under the bed and the fridge and freezer box as our food store.
In the freezer box we like to start out with a bag of frozen diced mixed veg and a large bag of frozen fried onions we cook at home in advance. These ingredients can be combined with so many other things and the mixed veg is an easy way to get vegetables into wraps, omelettes etc. If you just cook them without any water they come out really nice. The cooked onions freeze really well and taste delicious when used in any meal.
Once those ingredients are exhausted we then start using that space for frozen fish, burgers etc.
Because of Covid we currently shop every 2 to 3 days and make sure we know what we want and are in and out asap.
We like fry ups in the morning, home made wraps or tinned soup with mixed beans for lunch and curries, pies, fresh veg, pasta etc for our evening meal or takeaways. If Covid was not here we would be using restaurants and coffee shops but we are giving them a miss at the moment.
We had never really consumed much tinned food as we cook fresh meals at home but in the van a selection of tinned foods come in really handy and its good to have sufficient supplies to allow you to stay in a remote spot. Most tinned food is pretty drab straight out of the can but add your own seasoning and suddenly they can be quite tasty. Keeping things simple helps conserve precious water when wild camping so if we have a curry night that would be a tin of bombay potatoes, a tin of curry and a packet of microwave rice all heated up together in one pan. It may not look that pretty but its easy to make it taste nice with some seasoning, butter etc.
We don’t recommend frying anything that spits or smokes a lot in the van. If you see the episode where I cook steaks for the first time you will see why. Much better to cook those items outside the van on a small camping stove which is what we will be doing.
We certainly recommend an Xtra Large Ridge Monkey for cooking all sorts of things. Look them up on youtube. Xtra large is a laugh because its still quite small but it gets used a lot and that is how we cook the breaded fish. If you want things to come out crispy lift the top lid and just close it briefly so you can flip the food. The Ridge Monkey can cook pies, pastries, frozen chips, bacon etc its very versatile. Just be careful flipping it if anything is runny.
If you are able to wipe the dirty pans asap with some kitchen roll. Get a small spray bottle like they have in a travel set and fill it with water and washing up liquid. A quick spray of that will help the towel to clean the pan. When we wash up we heat some water so its very hot and keep the pan on a low heat to keep the water hot. Then put a tiny bit of washing up liquid onto the scourer sponge and wash the dishes allowing excess water to drain down the sink. This is really economical on water and works really well.
Life is too short thank you so much for your wonderful message! You have given me so many ideas💡❤️👍🏻
Fabulous video as always. I don't know how you do it and keep the quality so high. Commentary, drone footage, advice, editing, frequency of uploads - it's all brilliant THANK YOU. I don't know what your thoughts on the markers around the Wild Atlantic Way are (the zig zag posts at all the viewing points) but as someone that has just retired from a 42 year career in the paint industry, rust simply gives me the shudders. It seems to have gained status among sculptors the world over (The Angel of the North in my opinion is the most beautiful yet hideous sculpture ever). So sorry you are having bad weather as Donegal is one of the most spectacular places in good weather. Best of luck on the rest of the tour. PS I agree, gut feel is always worth heeding.
The more films I make the more I learn about what works and what fails. As long as you shoot sufficient good quality clips you can always fashion a cohesive story. There is a reason why I prefer narration over straight to camera and that is because I can choose what I say later. Whatever you say live is hard baked so it has to be right. I also want the viewer to see what I see and not just us. As for those signs they do stick out a bit. Nowhere near as bad as some of the huge anti covid signs we have seen spoiling some beautiful views. If they forced the tv channels to repeat an add with the latest covid advice and just forget about the signs they could have saved a fortune. I always trust my gut feeling and it’s never let me down yet 👍
I like the rusting zig zag wave pattern, kind of goes well with the name WAW. Saved the council a fortune having to paint them. Lol. :))
@@irishrover63 Thank God not everyone has that view or else I wouldn't be retired early from the paint industry - I'd still be trying to persuade people to use lots of paint :)
Just found your channel, really enjoying it. If you get a chance head down towards Co. Mayo, and FYI Ramelton is pronounced Ram-EL-ton with the emphasis on the middle syllable L
Thanks for the correct pronunciation and the tips Iain its always good to know 👍
Life is too short , we have a vw t5 camper and love the south Mayo / north Galway part of the wild Atlantic way, especially around Louisburgh and Westport. Check out Cross beach, silver strand and white strand if you like beautiful beaches, Clew bay is stunning too
Thanks for the tips 👍
Gut feeling - my (Irish) wife ran down the very grand staircase and out the door (in full on Cinderella mode) of a hotel in Provence over twenty years ago. We asked the manager to show us a room. The price he asked was more than we were prepared to pay so she asked if he had anything cheaper. The manager kept dropping the price and when he got to less than a half of the initial price she ran away. To this day she insists that he was wearing a gun holster beneath his jacket, and that we would not have survived the night had we stayed.
Well if she was right it was a good move otherwise I might not be answering this comment 😁👍
Ah, Fanad Head, great location. Hope you headed round Bloody Foreland after that as it's part of the WAW.
Somehow I think you might have missed Glenveagh Castle and Dunlewey lake.
Do you have a home in the U.K.? Just wondering if someone is looking in on it.
We have had to cancel our trip to Donegal. Even though we would be well away from our relatives and neighbours, we have to self isolate for 14 days and that means someone else bringing your shopping and I don't want to put anyone out or at risk. :)
Our neighbours look after our place they are brilliant people 👍
Yes that 14 day rule is a kicker especially as it’s only applied one way. 👍
We are considering a pop top for our nv200 camper when it is raining and the sides get wet do you need to dry off before lowering
Its often not going to be possible to make sure it’s dry before lowering the roof so we just bring it down wet if we need to. The canvas sits in a gap between the edge of the roof and the inside raised edge. You just have to make sure you raise it when the sun shines and let everything dry off. The same applies to any condensation that may form behind the curtains. We usually dry that off with a microfibre cloth each morning. If you pop the roof and doors when the sun is out it all drys very quickly. If humidity levels get high in the van run the engine and aircon as that really pulls the moisture out of the van. No need to be cold as aircon works with the heater just fine. If you don’t air a van regularly then mould can form and then that’s a harder problem to solve.
@@LifeistooshortCK Thank you thats very helpful and will take all the points onboard
You obviously enjoy the tune Canon as you use it regularly. Great video as usual. Particularly love the drone shots. What type of drone do you use?
I like Canon as it reflects a subdued mood that fits with rain etc. Then it has a subtle crescendo which can be used for a highlight. 👍. My drone is the Mavic Air 2. Small and reasonably quiet so it draws less attention.
So, what's up with the CocaCola van?
Yaay first😂
It's a shame these people overtaking you at speed only for you to pull up behind them at the cross roads of these 500 hundred year old country roads killing wild life on the way ,humans all ways in a hurry but no where to go !
I like giving them a nice smile as I pull up behind them 😁👍
Diet ain't that good for you.
Gosh. That weather was something else! 🥴 Good to see you not getting despondent with it, but at least you get beautiful rainbows 🌈. Good safety and driving tips as ever. Safe onward journey 🇮🇪