FreeToRoam
Welcome to Free To Roam!
We're Andy & Julie, a couple in our 60s who believe life doesn't stop when you leave the 9–5—it really begins.
After sharing over 100 videos from our year-long sabbatical, we've now stepped into our next adventure: creating a life filled with travel, hiking, sailing, great food and making the most of every day.
If you're dreaming of retirement, planning your own escape, or simply love exploring beautiful places, we'd love you to come along.
Adventure. Freedom. New beginnings.
Subscribe and join us as we discover where Chapter Next takes us.
FreeToRoam
🎥 We’d Love Your Help!
It’s been quite a journey!
Many of you first found us when our channel was called Julie & Andy’s Year Out. Since then, life has changed in ways we never imagined.
We’ve gone from planning a one-year sabbatical, to travelling across the UK and overseas, to becoming Free To Roam… and now we’ve both stepped away from the 9–5 to make the most of this next chapter of life.
We’re planning a special video looking back at:
🌍 Why we took our sabbatical
✈️ What we’ve learned over the past few years
❤️ The highs, the challenges and the surprises along the way
🎥 How YouTube has become such an important part of our lives
🧭 Our exciting plans for the future of Free To Roam
But we’d love to include the questions that matter most to you!
If you could ask us anything, what would it be?
Vote in the poll below and leave any specific questions in the comments—we’ll answer as many as we can in the video.
Thank you for being part of our journey. Whether you’ve been here from the beginning or you’ve only just discovered us, we really appreciate every single one of you. ❤️
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We’d love your help… we’re thinking about changing our channel name 👀
When we started Julie & Andy’s Year and More, Carpe Diem, we thought this would be a one-year chapter. Nearly two years later, the journey has grown into something much bigger 🌍
It’s become less about a “year out” and more about a lifestyle of exploring — both at home and abroad — and making the most of the freedom we’ve discovered along the way.
We also realise our current name is quite a mouthful (especially when recommending the channel!), so we’re considering something simpler that reflects this next stage.
Which do you prefer?
🔘 Keep the current name
🔘 Free to Roam
🔘 Carpe Diem
Nothing else will change — just a name that better reflects where we are now and where we’re heading.
As always, thank you for being part of the journey ❤️
Julie & Andy
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Hello . Andy and i would like to thank you all for following our journey during our years sabbatical. It’s been awesome year. It’s amazing to have so much support as we are so new to the world of Youtube , videos and editing . The good news is we are not quite quite finished our Year Out and have more adventures planned for the New Year . Wishing all of our wonderful subscribers a peaceful, joyful Christmas and a healthy 2025 full of new opportunities and adventures 🎉🎉
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Good morning to all our wonderful subscribers . I hope you enjoyed our last video from the beautiful island of Sardinia . A family holiday celebrating our 60th birthdays . We are now heading off to Hong Kong and then Vietnam so for those of you that look forward to our Friday evening video launch we have decided to wait until we are home to ensure we are uploading the best possible videos for you on our adventures in Asia. The good news is that we will continue to publish shorts while we are away and there will be a daily update on Instagram so if you don't follow our instagram channel then here's the link - instagram.com/ayearaway2024. Thank you again for following us we love sharing our adventures on our year out .
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As we are 6 months into our Year Out we have pulled together a 30 min compilation of our adventures to date . So if you are new to our channel and want a quick resume of our 20 videos and 16 shorts to date . Then sit back and enjoy . Video launches this evening at 5.30pm
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Hi everyone ,
Andy and I are now in the Dordogne and loving our time here being closer to our Grand daughter . Last week we made spontaneous decision to go on a road trip further south to escape the rain . How lucky are we that we can do this. We explored part of the Canal du Midi which stretches from Toulouse and the Mediterranean Sea. We are excited to launch a short this evening on the top 5 things to do on the Canal du Midi . We would love to get some feedback on this short as we are finding this format a bit harder to work with . Please let us know what you think
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