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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!

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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

4 months ago | [YT] | 277

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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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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 😊

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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

1 year ago | [YT] | 237

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Yesterday we hit 20,000 subscribers on our channel, and what a great place to reach it!

For those who don't know we've been spending the last few weeks in the Scottish Highlands driving around the NC500, having a great time and taking in some stunning scenery. It's also been a great test to see how the van copes in much colder weather 😀

We'll have some travel videos to share once we've caught up with the ones left from our build, but in the meantime you can follow our adventures on Instagram if you want to see what we've been up to with the van!

See you soon! 🙂

Tim & Abi

1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 105

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It was our channel's birthday yesterday! So we thought it was a good time to say thanks to everyone who's been watching our videos and to all our old and new subscribers, and everyone who leaves a comment. We like to reply to all of them if we can 🙂

And a bit of an update as it's been a while since we released a video! We've enjoyed taking the van slowly around Cornwall and being on the road, the van is working out really well and feels like home. Just a few ideas for upgrades we've had along the way... 😛 We ticked one big one off though, stopping off for a while in a mix of campsites and parkups to finally get round to upgrading to our recirculating shower. 😃

Now we're stopping back for a pit-stop to see family and friends, then we're heading up to Scotland. We still have a fair few videos we need to get round to editing... but hopefully we'll be able to catch up with where we are at some point! In the meantime we post a bit more frequently on Instagram. See you soon!

Cheers! 🚐
Tim & Abi

1 year ago | [YT] | 62

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Well it's been a long journey, but yesterday marked the first day of us living in our self built campervan! 🎉🥳🚐

We've spent the last few weeks getting the van ready so that we could start enjoying the results of all our hard work after all the time we've spent researching and building it. We won't deny it was a bigger project than we were anticipating and there were times along the way that we had burnout and just wanted it to be finished.

...But when is a van ever finished?! We decided that once we had all the main features in place it was finished enough for us 🙂 There's still a few bits of neatening up to do but we have everything we need right now, and a few projects to do on the road! (We've packed a garage full of tools so we'll see if we have what we need to upgrade to our recirculating shower...!).

We celebrated with a bottle of champagne, a moment to remember! Now we're looking forward to adjusting to our new life on the road. We're starting off exploring one of our favourite places again making our way around the coast of Cornwall, and then planning to head to Scotland and Norway 🚐

We still have quite a few videos to finish in our build playlist that we filmed but didn't have the time to edit. Hopefully now we will, so still a lot more to come like the hot water system, internet, 230V electrics and inverter, gas and worktops. 🎥

But for now we're taking a bit of time out to enjoy the amazing sunshine we've been having at the moment! We'll likely share more on our Instagram in the meantime, see you soon!

Tim & Abi x

1 year ago | [YT] | 376

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Hey everyone, you might have noticed we've been a bit quiet on the video front recently...! We've still been carrying on building and filming but we're actually getting ready to be on the road very soon living in our van so we've been focussing on that and haven't had much free time to edit everything, but we should have a lot more coming up! 🎥

Thanks for all the comments and support we've had through the whole build, it's meant a lot to us and we're looking forward to being able to share more with you soon! 🙂

Tim & Abi

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