Hi, we are Richard & Jackie. Join us as we take our first tentative steps of early retirement at the age of 51. After a series of life changing traumas in 2021, we made the scary decision to pack in our careers and take time to explore what the world has to offer.
We hope to share with you our travel and adventures in our VW Campervan, our new house renovations and all the highs and lows of early retirement.
We would love it if you would subscribe to our channel and join us as we move into early retirement adventures.
Check out our blog at www.earlyretirementwanderlust.com for more about what we do and why we do it.
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Hi All- we just wanted to let you know that Teemill are offering free P&P from now until midnight on Sunday on all our Sweatshirts, Hoodies and Teeshirts.
If you were thinking of Christmas ideas, you may want to take advantage of this offer.
Find all our latest stuff here: early-retirement-wanderlust.teemill.com/
Have a fabulous weekend, and don't forget to join us on Sunday when we are taking a cheeky local break at beautiful Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales.
Richard & Jackie
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Happy weekend everyone!
We just wanted to give you a sneak preview of the sweatshirts and t-shirts we have designed and produced for the channel. Big thanks must go to our lovely niece Ellie who has done all the creative stuff (including our original ERW logo❤️).
They might make the perfect Christmas present for any like minded Wanderlusters😉🎄
We will be launching the merchandise officially in Thursdays video, but you can get access to the shop here: early-retirement-wanderlust.teemill.com/
We just working on the tech' to link the shop to the Youtube channel😂
Have a great weekend,
Richard & Jackie
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We are just planning the next couple of months on the channel and we need your input...in two ways...
1. We are planning an Early Retirement Q&A video in a couple of weeks time- if you could let us have your questions over the course of the next week, we will film that in the following week.
2. If you have any specific early retirement based video ideas that you would like us to cover on Thursdays, let us know and we will see what we can do.
Thanks in advance and have a fantastic weekend,
Richard & Jackie
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Hi All.
After a busy week reviewing vans, we have a cheeky little bonus video for you tomorrow where we compare what you get in the different lengths of campervans.
It doesn't quite fit with our normal schedule, as we have a review of our French road trip and the breakdown of costs planned for Thursday. On Sunday we have our "fly on the wall" style of vlog from our 3 nights away camping near the NEC. We have a lovely little surprise for you all in that video- it was a surprise to us...
Hope you enjoy tomorrow's bonus video. It's out at the traditional time of 0630😉
Have a great week,
Richard & Jackie
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Hi All,
Sorry it's late, but we have a cheeky bonus for you over the next few days...We are publishing the final part of our French road trip from the Côte d'Azur on FRIDAY morning at 0630 because...
As it is coming up to the NEC Motorhome and Campervan Show next week, we have something really special lined up for you on Sunday...a bit of a pre-show exclusive👀🤫
We are so excited for next week, as we are at the NEC Show both Tuesday & Wednesday. If you are going, it would be fab to say hi!
Hope you enjoy the videos.
Richard & Jackie
2 months ago | [YT] | 183
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Morning All,
There have been loads of requests to go through my Backpack Setup for my recent multi-day hikes...so here you go!
It's not going to be everyone's cup-of-tea, which is why we have released it as a bonus mid-week video. Feel free to give it a miss if it is not your thing, but I really enjoyed creating and chatting through all my budget kit choices from my summer of solo adventures.
We now need to get stuck into getting the van packed for our next European Adventure😂
Hope you all are having a great week?
Richard
4 months ago | [YT] | 58
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Hi All
Richard has set off on his next hike walking 'The Dales Highway' - 92 miles from Saltaire to Appleby which goes through the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. I am staying with mum in Cheshire who is doing amazingly well after her knee operation. It has been a pretty full on week for us both so there is no video tomorrow.
We will be back on Sunday with Richards video of the Herriot Way - a 52 mile hike through the stunning Northern Dales taking in the picturesque villages of Hawes, Askrigg, Reeth and Aysgarth.
We will be putting photo's up daily on our Instagram account of the Dales Highway hike.
Have a great week
Jackie and Richard
4 months ago | [YT] | 304
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Hi All,
We are back in the UK after our fantastic road trip to northern Spain and Portugal. As normal, we will be putting together a video on our reflections of the trip and a full breakdown of the costs involved (including the ferries). We know from the comments that there are so many questions that you want to ask about the trip, so we would like to include a Q&A in the trip review video.
Please post any questions you have on our recent trip in the comments below. We are aiming to film next weekend, so please get your questions to us by then.
Thanks in advance. Have a great week!
Richard & Jackie
5 months ago | [YT] | 236
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Hi All,
A bit of a change to the schedule this week. It has been fearsomely hot for the last week of our adventures, with the temperatures in the high 30's every day🥵
With that in mind, we have produced an impromptu video on how we try to stay cooler in the van in this heat wave. This will be out tomorrow morning. We are having to slide our early retirement mid year goals review to Friday, as it has just been too hot to sit down and record. Fingers crossed it will be ready for 6pm on Friday.
The next instalment of our road trip from Porto is coming on Sunday.
It's been quite a week!
Have a good one,
Richard & Jackie
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Morning All,
You may recall that we did some work a few weeks ago with Visit Wales where we had a wonderful week in Snowdonia and Anglesey. As part of this project, we produced two short videos that have now been published on the Visit Wales Youtube Channel. It would be fab if you pop over there and give it a view and a like. The link is here: youtube.com/@visitwales/videos
Don't forget, part 1 of our Spanish and Portuguese road trip is coming on Sunday morning!
Have a great weekend,
Richard & Jackie
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