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Merry Christmas everyone! 🙂🎄🎅🏻

We hope you're all having a brilliant time wherever you are! For us that's in a campsite in Oxfordshire this year, enjoying some festive movies and dinner in the pub!

We wanted to take the time to say thanks to everyone who’s enjoyed and commented on our videos over the last year too (we read them all). There's lots more to come next year which we're looking forward to sharing, and hopefully we'll get a bit quicker at releasing them too!

Right, back to the fun and trying to squeeze in a few more tasty treats.... see you all in 2026, Happy New Year! 🥳

Tim & Abi

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 370

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Wow, we just passed half a million views on our 12V electrics video! 🥳 That's a mind boggling number of views so thanks to everyone who's watched it over the years!

Here's the link to the video: https://youtu.be/Ysm1d0otDnA 🙂

5 months ago | [YT] | 163

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So here's a behind the scenes picture of us editing our latest video! It's been really hot the last few days in the UK and it got up to 32°C while we were in the van, so it was great to find a spot where we could keep the doors open..! 🔥

This was our last video from when we travelled around Cornwall and we hope you enjoyed the whole series going around the coast. It took a little while to edit this one but it was a fun one to do especially with the bonkers pub crawl at the end! 🤣 You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/1fmm0dnh2J8

If you haven't already noticed we're still a fair bit behind with our YouTube videos but we've got a lot of great content to come and we are trying to catch up and edit whenever we can. We've got a mixture of build/upgrade and travel videos on the way, so stay tuned!

We're currently spending most of our time in the South West and South Wales at the moment, as well as criss-crossing our way across the country for lots of different van festivals this Summer.

What are some of your favourite moments from all our videos so far? We'd love to know! 🙂

6 months ago | [YT] | 142

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Wow, we just passed 3 million views on our videos! Wouldn't have thought we'd ever reach those kind of numbers in the beginning, so thanks for watching everyone and we're looking forward to sharing more soon! 🙂

Tim & Abi

7 months ago | [YT] | 134

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We just passed 30,000 subscribers on YouTube! 🥳

It’s feels great to reach another milestone so thanks to all of you who have been following along, whether you’ve been with us for a while or have just found our channel more recently.

We haven’t released a video for some time as we’ve been quite busy with other things outside of YouTube, but we hope to have more on the way soon!

11 months ago | [YT] | 87

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Merry Christmas from us both to all of you out there! 🎅🏻🎄☃️

Thank you to everyone who's followed along with us and watched our videos this year, and for all of your great comments, we love reading them!

We're spending Christmas with family and looking forward to sharing some more adventures with you next year.

We hope you enjoy the holidays and wish you a very happy 2025! 🥳

Tim & Abi

1 year ago | [YT] | 282

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We thought it was about time we changed our logo! 🥳

The one we’ve been using up until now was just a screenshot taken from the end of our first video, as we needed something quick and easy to upload to YouTube back when we first created our channel (swipe to see the original). It was handy at the time but we’ve been meaning to change it for a while to something a bit more eye-catching!

We can’t take credit for the design though, that goes to Tim’s very talented sister. She drew a picture of us with the van as a gift once and we thought straight away that it would look great as a logo. So we asked her to make it into one with a nice mountain scene in the background to illustrate our adventures on the road. 🚐

We think it’s really cool and she captured the elements of us and the van perfectly. 🙂

What do you think? We hope you like it!

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1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 181

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Happy Saturday everyone! So we’re excited to finally be releasing the first of our travel videos this weekend. As many of you know we’ve been travelling around in the van for a while now, but so far have only been sharing our adventures on Instagram.

We have been filming a lot of our trips along the way though, we just needed to find the time to actually start to edit some videos! So if you want to see how we got on when we first hit the road and headed down to Cornwall then you can catch the video here tomorrow morning at 10am (UK time).

There will be many more videos to come of our travels in Cornwall, Scotland and Norway as well as some more build and upgrade videos along the way too!

We hope you enjoy it 😊

1 year ago | [YT] | 243

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It's been a while! We haven't posted any new YouTube videos for a long time, sorry about that. There's a good reason though, we've been getting the van ready for an epic trip to Norway! 🇳🇴

We've been looking forward to this for a long time as it's our first time taking the van outside the UK. We boarded a train on the Eurotunnel yesterday and are currently driving through Europe.

Don't worry we still have a lot more videos from the rest of the build in the pipeline and we hope to find some time to work on them soon (When we're not busy exploring!)

We're planning to film some of our trip too so it will make it to a video at some point, but in the meantime we post more frequently on Instagram.

See you soon! 🚐

1 year ago | [YT] | 298

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! 🎄🎅🏻🎁

We hope you're having a lovely day wherever you are and whatever you're doing. We'll be back in the New Year with our last remaining build videos and then we're looking forward to finally sharing some travel ones with you too 🚐

And if you need to sit down for a while after the Christmas feast, you can always watch our latest video on our toilet here! https://youtu.be/RXNrpgPJfqU 🤣

See you in 2024! 🥳

Tim & Abi

2 years ago | [YT] | 239