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Vanlifers Find An Abandoned Mansion In Nature 🌿 Ep. 11
Our hippie vanlife adventures just got even wilder. This week we were driving through the mountains in Spain when we discovered an abandoned overgrown monastery! We decided to break in and sneak around to see what was inside. We love exploring secret hidden places that feel like no one has been there for centuries.
We’re often asked how we wash living in a van so in this episode we also decided to show you our van shower setup! We use a portable electric shower that plugs into our solar power. We dunk the shower sucker into our water tank and voila! It isn’t a very private outdoor shower experience but the beautiful mountain views make it feel luxurious somehow.
We hope you enjoy exploring the long forgotten places in this episode; there's also some foraging and frolicking in nature as always with our off grid life in our home on wheels.
If you live for cottagecore vibes, slow living, adventures in nature and wild vanlife camping, hit subscribe for our vlogs 🌸 we post every two weeks on the new moon and the full moon!
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Hippie Vanlife Adventures in the Spanish Mountains 🌿 Ep. 10
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We found a secluded vanlife paradise hidden away in the Spanish mountains with natural turquoise pools and mossy water slides. Vanlife in Catalunya, Spain has been so slow and easy. It's a bohemian dream! This episode is all about seeking out crystal clear fairy pools to wild swim in. We tried to get our rescue dog Lufie to join us but she hates water so instead she comes out on her inflatable ...
Autumnal Adventures in our Cosy Wooden Campervan 🌿 Ep. 9
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Autumn has just begun in our cabin on wheels and we need to escape rainy England. One of the best things about living in a van is that you can just spontaneously decide to travel anywhere, anytime… so that's what we did! 🍂 This week we travel slowly down to Spain but on the way there we wild camp in a quiet forest where we show you how to forage chetnuts. The trees are turning orange as we cozy...
Why We Left Society To Live In A Van In Nature: Our Story
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This is the story of why we left our old city lives behind and escaped the rat race to live simple lives in nature. We didn’t have much money so we decided to convert a wooden campervan on a super low budget and travel for cheap in the mountains 🚌 We thought quitting our jobs and running away from the city would fix all our problems but it didn't. Finding purpose and calming our overwhelmed ner...
How To Live For Cheap In The Alps: Vanlife In The Mountains
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In 5 years of vanlife we have never found a more idyllic place to roadtrip in nature than The Alps and we wanted to share all we've learnt about wild camping in these mountains with you. 🚌 You would think it's a really expensive area to travel around but we’ve found it very easy to live freely and to live for cheap in the Alps in our little cabin on wheels. In this video we share some of our fa...
Leaving our Hippie Vanlife Haven in the Mountains 🌿 Ep. 8
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Our time in europe is running out but we're savouring every last moment in the French Alps in possibly the most idyllic free camping spot weve ever found. ✨🚌 We won’t leave until we lay in the wildflowers and go wild swimming in the alpine lake one last time. In this episode Laura gets creative in the meadows using petals as makeup and lives out her flower fairy dreams in our fairytale camperva...
The Best Free Camping Spot We’ve Ever Found 🌿 Ep. 7
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In this episode we linger in the most idyllic wild camping spot we have ever found. Tucked away in the French Alps with enchanting meadows of wildflowers and mystical mountains towering above us, we explore the Lautaret area of Ecrins National Park in our tiny home on wheels 🚍 As flower children we couldn’t resist a visit to the botanical gardens hidden high up in the clouds which are a total c...
Living in a Van During a Heatwave 🌿 Ep.6
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A heatwave has hit Europe and we're wild camping beside a beautiful turquoise waterfall lake to keep cool. We planned to have a calm few days of swimming but that is NOT what the universe had in store for us. In this episode, we get swept up by crazy unexpected surprises and roll along with the fun of it all. But there is only so much sun that a couple of Brits and their poodle can handle, so e...
Summer Roadtrip Searching for Turquoise Lakes 🌿 Ep.5
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Summer Roadtrip Searching for Turquoise Lakes 🌿 Ep.5
Campervan Adventures in Europe's Tallest Mountains 🌿 Ep. 4
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Campervan Adventures in Europe's Tallest Mountains 🌿 Ep. 4
Vanlife and Foraging in the Alpine Wildflower Meadows 🌿Ep.3
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Vanlife and Foraging in the Alpine Wildflower Meadows 🌿Ep.3
Escaping For A Summer Roadtrip In The Mountains 🌿 Ep. 2
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Escaping For A Summer Roadtrip In The Mountains 🌿 Ep. 2
Returning to Our Slow Life in Nature After the Worst 2 Months 🌿 Ep. 1
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Returning to Our Slow Life in Nature After the Worst 2 Months 🌿 Ep. 1
Enchanted Campervan Tour ❁ Rustic Wooden Van Conversion
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Enchanted Campervan Tour ❁ Rustic Wooden Van Conversion

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  • @markNazerzadeh
    @markNazerzadeh 46 хвилин тому

    Like the style!

  • @humphreymurphy8048
    @humphreymurphy8048 3 години тому

    Good on you guys and the best of luck with your choices. Some great shots and a lot of work in the edit. However!!!!! You need to stop scripting your commentary. It comes across as convoluted and cliched. You have a story let it flow authentically, stop writing a script and instead start talking to the camera. Also you need to get to grips with the philosophy of what you are trying to do. Read up on existentialism, new materialism, Heidiger, check out Rebecca Solnit Field guide to getting lost and so on. Step up to the next level. You are doing something very worthy but your minds need to catch up with your actions. I say this with no mercy and no malice

  • @brezziesbrowsdontlie
    @brezziesbrowsdontlie День тому

    you haven't left society.

  • @lwilson5198
    @lwilson5198 День тому

    It's wonderful to see your journey and also find your channel here on YT. You are very blessed to have worked out that modern society is just a rat race that disconnects us from the things that truly mean something in life. I am 52 and I travel for my work but feel I need to take it one step further to live more freely now the world has gone even crazier. I never cared much for the matrix way of life, never saw the point of it. What you are doing is showing your generation that it isn't all about materialism and consumerism.

  • @stephhunsley
    @stephhunsley День тому

    Stunning place. Wow the monistry is amazing, I wonder why it was abandoned. Its huge, and they would have been self sufficient too.

  • @leastidyworld4365
    @leastidyworld4365 2 дні тому

    Thank you for your honesty.

  • @Lily-nu2mg
    @Lily-nu2mg 2 дні тому

    You keep me safe, I keep you wild😭😭❤❤❤❤

  • @MuusicAndLove
    @MuusicAndLove 2 дні тому

    Beautiful ❤❤❤❤ enjoy

  • @margataltavull1692
    @margataltavull1692 2 дні тому

    Muy bonita la casita coche....con mucha personalidad...gracias

  • @atashakgem
    @atashakgem 2 дні тому

    I live in the most horrific horrible among savages of Northern California very close to SanFransisco the most horrible most most expensive full of drugs alcohol robbery homelessness all over extremely dangerous streets airports every 5 kilometers, rent sky rocket, truly I am depressed noise pollution air pollution crazy mentally ill two legged creatures ,,,, every second I wish either dead or some miracle happens I am out of this very real HELL I even thought LONDON at least are more civilized, to Me London is paradise compare to this real HELL, What would you two do if we’re living here, in my shoes? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️😢you guys have never experienced anything like we do here, is so so HELL pls everyone pray I find my place and peace else where 🙏🙏🤲🤲🤲🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🙏🙏🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲

  • @pamelasusanne22
    @pamelasusanne22 3 дні тому

    Beautiful song! Beautiful tapestry!

  • @heathermcgough3030
    @heathermcgough3030 3 дні тому

    Your dog is a sweet little angel, I love the lights up in your beautiful home ❤

  • @andreadybvik
    @andreadybvik 3 дні тому

    Thank you for the honesty and inspiration 🧡

  • @milenakisel2855
    @milenakisel2855 3 дні тому

    I stopped hanging out with people that destroy my peace!!! Now I’m just doing what I want. I enjoy my day and life❤❤❤

  • @alfran1
    @alfran1 3 дні тому

    Three years videos but not one winter video at all. I wonder if you are not faking? Where do you life at winter?

  • @adrianaj.3256
    @adrianaj.3256 3 дні тому

    What a sweet story. Me and my husband come from Czech Republic, we've been travelling all around the world, hitch-hiking, volunteering,... you remind me us 10 years ago :) now we have 3 beautiful kids, building house ourselves from hay, wood and mud and getting ready for another phase of our lifes with finally living in our dream little house :) I think, you will get what you dream of too :) I just have to admit, life was never easier for us, there is always something to resolve, there are always some challanges, especially now with kids our lifes are just so different, but kids help us to see our real selves I have to say. They are amazing mirror of our souls and we are still learning about ourselves :) Now I have to say, that life is a journey and it is just upon us how we are going to work with our emotions and thoughts :) Wishing you all the best :)

  • @esthaleo1367
    @esthaleo1367 3 дні тому

    I love everything. The song Aaron wrote is so beautiful❤ Love from a 61 year young woman in Singapore🎉🎉🎉

  • @prometheuscodes2508
    @prometheuscodes2508 3 дні тому

    Thank you for this honest sharing; it's so transformative and validating to watch. You've captured the universal truth of our generation in western culture: ... that the comforts and tracked-out lives we were raised with failed to nourish the yearnings of our raw creature souls. That the discovery of beauty and adventure is also a discovery of discomfort and resilience which evolves a new-found appreciation where before there was entitlement, and possibility where before there was enslavement to performance bars. I'm inspired by how many watchers are compelled to share their stories in the comments as well, and it is a testament to the success of this documentary. I hail you on this piece so well written and crafted, and again appreciate the sharing and honest exposure of your experiemce: the angst and hardship you'd both gone through to create not only the journey itself but also this beautiful work, a gestalt of the modern zeitgeist, a wholly piercing and yearning film, documentation that is both beautiful and revealing documentation. Truly a triumph. Congratulations to you both, and I encourage you to submit it for recognitions as it truly is a capsule of our generation's experience and of the times we're living in. Best of luck!❤

  • @tetemorales9193
    @tetemorales9193 3 дні тому

    Un abrazo desde México!😊

  • @sandrahickey3593
    @sandrahickey3593 4 дні тому

    Beautiful, really enjoying your channel.

  • @jasminmarroquin5756
    @jasminmarroquin5756 4 дні тому

    Hi, at 13:32 minutes I see you are showering with a very cute 2 price swimsuit. Could you be kind to tell me where or who did you get them from? Thank you!

  • @sandrahickey3593
    @sandrahickey3593 4 дні тому

    What an honest, poignant and beautiful story of your vanlife. I' m in my fifties, and gave up work looking after my mother. I now manage to stay home now and i love it, although i do suffer from anxiety. Life is so fast paced and commercialised. It makes me happy that you are travelling, seeing the world, fulfilling your dreams together.

  • @sandrahickey3593
    @sandrahickey3593 4 дні тому

    Oh wow, those water slides. My 2 cockapoos love water and would be in there too. Good idea with lucy's boat. Looks so much fun. Fab Spanish autumn warmth. Wish i could do this. Love your outfits too.

  • @sandrahickey3593
    @sandrahickey3593 4 дні тому

    New subscriber, i love your lives. definitely feeling more like autumn in the UK. Enjoying watching your video's. That beach looked beautiful. Lovely to see a young couple living their dream.

  • @KokoraLife
    @KokoraLife 4 дні тому

    Amazing!🌿

  • @lalitagopi
    @lalitagopi 4 дні тому

    Love it! ❤ good luck at your life journey 🧡💚💛🤎from Slovakia

  • @Jayapullani
    @Jayapullani 4 дні тому

    Such beautiful landscapes and places, it must be so invigorating escaping into such perfect nature and happening upon the monastery is such a wonderful find. Little doggy is living her best life loving and being loved, you both bring a romantic atmosphere nostalgia in the way you film and present which is quite unique.

  • @nicktheavatar_
    @nicktheavatar_ 5 днів тому

    WOW where are they van lifing through? These views are jawdropppingg

  • @levidaisyyoung220
    @levidaisyyoung220 5 днів тому

    its great to see you both and poochie... cant wait to get my email about purchasing one of your blankets.. they looks beautiful..

  • @baileymason725
    @baileymason725 5 днів тому

    How do you cook and shower when it's raining? Do you just have to wait for it to not be raining? You guys are a huge inspiration to me

  • @madelineroberts6038
    @madelineroberts6038 5 днів тому

    Y’all need Jesus that’s what you’re missing

  • @helenkealarcnan6605
    @helenkealarcnan6605 5 днів тому

    Hey guys, watching from Western Australia and loving your posts. Serious FOMO but sending you both lots of joy so that you may continue your journeys and keep inspiring me.

  • @earthangel8730
    @earthangel8730 5 днів тому

    Lovely guitar licks. 🎶 ❤

  • @IanB-cd9pe
    @IanB-cd9pe 5 днів тому

    another lovely video, thank you. I really enjoyed your guitar playing but I have a preference to instrumental work. Do you have for sale any CDs of your guitar instrumentals?

  • @sweetf3311
    @sweetf3311 5 днів тому

    Reminds me of a hippie cult vibe, yet you on yt making money off society. You still need society.

  • @CarinaKarlsson-i9b
    @CarinaKarlsson-i9b 5 днів тому

    Thank you for this honest rewiev of life.

  • @wwE_ggGhoST
    @wwE_ggGhoST 6 днів тому

    I think people can't just be still at the present, they have to put their energy to something or it becomes restless.

  • @nealeburgess6756
    @nealeburgess6756 6 днів тому

    I need to explore more of the north of Spain. I have enjoyed Los Picos de Europa and some areas near there a couple of times, but you have clearly shown me there is scope for much more exploring.

  • @ragit6
    @ragit6 6 днів тому

    wonderfull

  • @yvonnegabrieleloetz
    @yvonnegabrieleloetz 6 днів тому

    Beautiful souls ♥️♥️

  • @ElCosmicGitana
    @ElCosmicGitana 6 днів тому

    Wonderful ❤🎉❤

  • @horseconfused
    @horseconfused 6 днів тому

    This is what i want in life

  • @artsydog
    @artsydog 6 днів тому

    Aaron's music is sooooo good and you're art is breathtakingly stunning <3

  • @bradthompson9400
    @bradthompson9400 6 днів тому

    Amazing!

  • @leepinky1935
    @leepinky1935 6 днів тому

    You have to go solo to feel it

  • @leepinky1935
    @leepinky1935 6 днів тому

    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @johannapauldeninfinitivehe2942
    @johannapauldeninfinitivehe2942 6 днів тому

    Wow, it looks so beautiful, where abouts in Spain is the monastery?

  • @Ron-d2g
    @Ron-d2g 6 днів тому

    I watch your adventures and secretly wish I was with you guys . In envy of your adventures and wishing you guys all the joy .

  • @anabianca2328
    @anabianca2328 6 днів тому

    Aaron let Laura sleep as long as she wants. Stop forcing her to wake up when she wants to sleep. She will get sick.

  • @FlowerWater999
    @FlowerWater999 6 днів тому

    Your doggo is adorable.