I'm looking for my first motorhome to live on full time. I'm a lorry driver and out every night so am used to park ups, I have used supermarkets, industrial estates, lay bys and remote country lanes, I have never had a problem anywhere and as everyone says gut instinct is vital, you will just feel right or wrong, I don't stop in lay bys on busy roads because lorrys going past all night end up rocking you all over the place so it's hard to get sleep, The feeling you get when parked up with no noise around and you pull your curtains get the bed ready and lay down is pure comfort, it really is something that makes you happy and content. Anyone just starting be safe and follow your instincts, you won't look back I guarantee you
Did 15 years of tramping, been out of a marriage 5 years, I've just bit the bullet and bought a campervan, like you say parking up wherever you can, thinking about ya load and ya diesel, not quite the same in the van, and if you can get somewhere quiet out the way, job done
Make a Google map favourites list, save every spot using pins. Invite your (good) vanlife mates to the list to add theirs. A group of 7 of us have over 5,000 spots in the UK and Europe which pop up as green pins on the map ; easy to find one whenever you’re in an area! Tip; keep the list close friends only. Noisy unclean and disrespectful vanlifers shut down spots
Hi everyone. I usually look for BROKEN GLASS SKID MARKS RUBBISH IN BUSHES LIKE MCDONALDS OR KFC THEM BLOODY BALLOON CARTRIDGES AND DEFINITELY DOWN DEEP IN THAT GUT FEELING believe you will know Please enjoy wild camping as it’s free and it’s the best thing ever!!
I'm glad you've considered how everyone may feel differently about it and and got all your friends to give their take on it too! Thanks for sharing everyone :)
8:21 drop the stigma that you're going to have a problem. Hope for and expect the best and be prepared for the worse. You will have a happier experience. 😊🚚
Really appreciate your videos. I am a retiree on a budget. I have no home to come back to, and don't fancy a waiting list that might never deliver, so I'm strongly considering a one-man motorhome for travelling the UK and Europe.
Thank you for asking us to be involved loved hearing the girls thoughts too totally right no one knows who is sleeping in the van. Take care see you soon XxRR
Some very good advice , I sleep like the dead 😴 lol but I do have a very protective Belgium mallinoi and a big German shepherd , any noise they're at the windows kicking off , generally no problems 😉
👍 Hi. CooI channel. I stay in my Van w my dog. She's too friendly! Scares any trouble away. Coastal NSW Australia. Ocean, bays & rivers always. Amazing views! Mostly friendly people. Thinking about starting my own channel? Cheap "ish", easy Van build. Solar, 3 battery banks, DC-DC etc. Don't travel very far tho. Fuel prices killed that idea. Cheers!
Yes! Start a channel to tell your stories and share your experiences. Have fun with it. If you go into it without any expectations of UA-cam fame and fortune, you won't be disappointed. 😎
So glad to have been pointed to this vid thanks to Camper Vibes! I've just bought my first motorhome and am playing a trip from East Sussex to the Outer Hebrides, with my 6 yr old and will be doing over nights on the way but want to mix wild camp and campsites so this has reassured me. Cheers!
Me ,the Mrs and 2 dogs are about half way through our 90 day tour of Europe. We were on a park up in Spain and some neighbours put a dogs water bowl and lead outside their van and went out for a cycle ride. We both thought surely they haven't left their dog in the van. They didn't have a dog just a bowl and lead 😀😄😅
Brilliant Matthew, that’s exactly what camper vans and motorhomes are exactly for. I think people who own motorhomes I just tour the U.K. are doing themselves a disservice. My parents are currently in northern Spain on tour. They’ve done France, down through Spain onto Portugal then their going straight across too Italy, then slowly working their way up through too Austria, Germany, Holland then back home. Their retired the jammy sods so have the time, unlike me🙄😂
Dana, you are looking good like the new hair style and beard trim. Looking like rag n bone man. Get some that’s. But seriously looking good and fashionable. You were getting unkempt. But on point now brother. Big up the dazza
If only we could do boom docking. In America you can boom dock for up too two weeks before you have too move along. We don’t have no where the freedoms they enjoy in America. You can take scramblers off road, without fear of some local authorities or police suing you, you can walk and camp anywhere. We can’t do anything like that in England it’s just a culture of restrictions. Last time I sent too Texas to visit my cousin he took me night Hog shooting from pick up trucks. In these big beefy V8 trucks, with hunting rifles. We got 3 kills, took the Hogs too a local butcher the next morning. He butchered them for us, then straight on the bbq. They were delicious😋 doing something like that in the U.K. is only a dream.
hey there I'm currently 19 and i want to be a camper like use ive watched so many cool videos of people building there's and your advice is amazing but also i need to do my driving lessons to get a licence any advice or tips to and what's the best way to get yourself a camper van for a beginner you may see this you may do or if anyone has advice please feel free to reply to this comment thank you
Check out Max. youtube.com/@RustyRoseAdventures He's a similar age to you and is working through a lot of the challenges you are facing. Insurance is likely to be the killer for a new driver. Good luck!
I bought my motorhome in November. Planning my first trip next month. First wild camping stop is going to be The Science Centre in Glasgow. Any experience there?
I recently found your channel & I am so enjoying the content. And I love your accent! Are you here in the states? You should put together a group camping event so us like minded peeps can meet. Thanks for the great videos.
Noisy sometimes, but popular. It's a legitimate place for to stop and get some rest. As long as you don't get out levelling ramps, camp chairs and a BBQ. 😁
thanks, guys really interesting from all sides. Now a question about having a drink, I like a couple of glasses of vino and was wondering how you all managed. I know Darren likes his fizzy pop. was wondering how you went about it. Easy for couples as one could have a drink the other one not, but being a single bloke doesn't want to have to be moved on if I have had a drink. Does it mean I have to go teetotal unless I am on a weekend off at a campsite? Thanks again am loving all the tips and info Paul in sunny Bournemouth
I'm mostly off the booze, which Vanlife friends will attest to as being a GOOD THING. I murder the karaoke. anyway.. Drunk in charge is a serious offence if you're intoxicated by yourself, even if your in the back and not in the drivers seat. I've known some go to the extent of putting on steering wheel locks, rotating the driver's seat, parking ramps, etc to show there is no intent to drive. Personally, I never take the risk.
Hi Darren, Thankyou for the great, very informative videos. Please forgive my ignorance on both my enquiries, I'm looking at starting van life but I was hoping you could tell me why you chose a motorhome instead of a self build? Also, I've moved all over the country for work, so don't have close friends & don't have family, how do you register a vehicle if you don't have a permanent address? Hope you don't mind me picking your brain! Many thanks. Mick.
Yeh you have a lot more camping freedom in Scotland than England. In England you can’t camp anywhere. We hired a motorhome for the N.C 500 last year, and every night we just pulled over where we liked and camped the night. The north east and west coast spots were stunning. Beautiful clear blue seas and golden sand beaches, it could pass for the Caribbean.🙂👍🏻
we went to a lovely (what we thought) spot, an old road (now layby) divided from the main road by trees etc, there must have been 10 or more cars with 'old' men therein, like you said my gut didn't like the spot, we moved on later checked and it was a dogging site..oops..not interested
Great advice from all of you, however, my thoughts spring to what was said, NO ONE was worried about the environment they park up in, their concerns lie with the fear of other people, which is sad really that society has come to this.
because it's not explicitly mentioned, doesn't mean that anti-social behaviour or harm to the environment is being encouraged. Leave no trace. Clean up other people's litter. 😎👍 It's really hard to make one big video that covers each and every element of every possible scenario.
Yeh true but if you’ve got a motorhome you’ve got a flushing toilet, shower and water storage. There’s plenty of places you can get water. Just stop at any shop, hotel etc ask politely and most will let you have their water. When we did the N.C 500 in Scotland that all me and the wife did. Most places let us use their bathroom facilities for water waste and fresh water.
You just start by getting a van and parking any damn where you want cause this is america, anyone knocks you give em some 2nd amendment for good measure and further peace of mind
This is not wildcamping. You are doing vanlife, not wildcamping. Stop hijacking our genre with misleading titles & descriptions. #vanlifeisnotwildcamping
Just as nobody here is hammering tent pegs into a glacier, you're not parked with a sea view eating sandwiches. Who on earth gets mixed up between two entirely different "genres"? #justwords
Nahh im gonna get abuse for this, but you cant 'wild camp' in a van or a motorhome, you just park it up. Same as you would do anywhere else but the scenery is different
I'm looking for my first motorhome to live on full time. I'm a lorry driver and out every night so am used to park ups, I have used supermarkets, industrial estates, lay bys and remote country lanes, I have never had a problem anywhere and as everyone says gut instinct is vital, you will just feel right or wrong, I don't stop in lay bys on busy roads because lorrys going past all night end up rocking you all over the place so it's hard to get sleep,
The feeling you get when parked up with no noise around and you pull your curtains get the bed ready and lay down is pure comfort, it really is something that makes you happy and content.
Anyone just starting be safe and follow your instincts, you won't look back I guarantee you
Did 15 years of tramping, been out of a marriage 5 years, I've just bit the bullet and bought a campervan, like you say parking up wherever you can, thinking about ya load and ya diesel, not quite the same in the van, and if you can get somewhere quiet out the way, job done
For a solo female the biggest pair of men's boots you can find sitting on the step is good.... And a dog of course
You might even want to get a beware of the dog sign - English bull terrier eg. Even if you don't have a dog!
Make a Google map favourites list, save every spot using pins. Invite your (good) vanlife mates to the list to add theirs. A group of 7 of us have over 5,000 spots in the UK and Europe which pop up as green pins on the map ; easy to find one whenever you’re in an area!
Tip; keep the list close friends only. Noisy unclean and disrespectful vanlifers shut down spots
Hi everyone.
I usually look for
BROKEN GLASS
SKID MARKS
RUBBISH IN BUSHES LIKE MCDONALDS OR KFC
THEM BLOODY BALLOON CARTRIDGES
AND DEFINITELY DOWN DEEP IN THAT GUT FEELING
believe you will know
Please enjoy wild camping as it’s free and it’s the best thing ever!!
Ohhh mate! Those are some top top tips right there thanks man! 👍🏻😁
Some great advice there XxRR
"If your gut says No - GO!". 100% true good advice in my experience.
Its true isn't it!
I'm glad you've considered how everyone may feel differently about it and and got all your friends to give their take on it too! Thanks for sharing everyone :)
8:21 drop the stigma that you're going to have a problem. Hope for and expect the best and be prepared for the worse. You will have a happier experience. 😊🚚
Really appreciate your videos. I am a retiree on a budget. I have no home to come back to, and don't fancy a waiting list that might never deliver, so I'm strongly considering a one-man motorhome for travelling the UK and Europe.
Thank you for asking us to be involved loved hearing the girls thoughts too totally right no one knows who is sleeping in the van. Take care see you soon XxRR
Some very good advice , I sleep like the dead 😴 lol but I do have a very protective Belgium mallinoi and a big German shepherd , any noise they're at the windows kicking off , generally no problems 😉
Really helpful. More and more places are ‘overnight stays not permitted’ so stealth tips are really great.
Really great advice Daz. Once we've finished our electrics, we are doing our 1st wild camp in 2 weeks time.
Brilliant vlog, very informative, especially the toilet tip x
Good tip for a solo traveller...
Leave a dog water bowl outside your van
and an old pair of size 11 boots.
What a great intro to the wild camping / van life 👍🏼 Love the videos Darren 🚐
Hi Daz really really enjoyed watching very very interesting really looking forward to seeing your next video keep safe 😷👍🏻
Gut feeling all the way.
thanks again for the best advice on string van like you are one of best UA-camr and onistey thanks have good one m8
Great advice thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
👍 Hi. CooI channel. I stay in my Van w my dog. She's too friendly! Scares any trouble away. Coastal NSW Australia. Ocean, bays & rivers always. Amazing views! Mostly friendly people.
Thinking about starting my own channel? Cheap "ish", easy Van build. Solar, 3 battery banks, DC-DC etc. Don't travel very far tho. Fuel prices killed that idea. Cheers!
Yes! Start a channel to tell your stories and share your experiences. Have fun with it. If you go into it without any expectations of UA-cam fame and fortune, you won't be disappointed. 😎
Great video , and what great advice and tips from everyone.
This is Brilliant, Thank you for spending time, doing these videos
Thats appreciated mate, thank you!
So glad to have been pointed to this vid thanks to Camper Vibes! I've just bought my first motorhome and am playing a trip from East Sussex to the Outer Hebrides, with my 6 yr old and will be doing over nights on the way but want to mix wild camp and campsites so this has reassured me. Cheers!
A very good Public Service Broadcast 👍💙❤️
Interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Hello darran. Quick question what do you think about new trespass act. Is it over for van livers fulltime. Great show again.
Great content as always Darren!! Has nobody produced an urban camping directory?
Park4night
Me ,the Mrs and 2 dogs are about half way through our 90 day tour of Europe. We were on a park up in Spain and some neighbours put a dogs water bowl and lead outside their van and went out for a cycle ride. We both thought surely they haven't left their dog in the van. They didn't have a dog just a bowl and lead 😀😄😅
Brilliant Matthew, that’s exactly what camper vans and motorhomes are exactly for. I think people who own motorhomes I just tour the U.K. are doing themselves a disservice. My parents are currently in northern Spain on tour. They’ve done France, down through Spain onto Portugal then their going straight across too Italy, then slowly working their way up through too Austria, Germany, Holland then back home. Their retired the jammy sods so have the time, unlike me🙄😂
Baseball batt near by will relax you 😎
Best video ive found for valuable information - highly beneficial thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Love you guys ❤
Dana, you are looking good like the new hair style and beard trim. Looking like rag n bone man. Get some that’s. But seriously looking good and fashionable. You were getting unkempt. But on point now brother. Big up the dazza
luckily the money maker can pull off any look but I had to get a fresh cut for all the new content coming out 💇🏻😉
@@TheUrbanMotorhome yessssssss got a reply from the big man. Cheers made my day. Always watch your vids best on here. Take care. Big up the dazza 👊🏻
Great advice Daz.
If only we could do boom docking. In America you can boom dock for up too two weeks before you have too move along. We don’t have no where the freedoms they enjoy in America. You can take scramblers off road, without fear of some local authorities or police suing you, you can walk and camp anywhere. We can’t do anything like that in England it’s just a culture of restrictions. Last time I sent too Texas to visit my cousin he took me night Hog shooting from pick up trucks. In these big beefy V8 trucks, with hunting rifles. We got 3 kills, took the Hogs too a local butcher the next morning. He butchered them for us, then straight on the bbq. They were delicious😋 doing something like that in the U.K. is only a dream.
Another blinder, big lad. 👊🏻
Fantastic 👏 👌👍
a great video mate
Awesome video thank you
Fantastic vlog. Xx
You. Hear of trucks getting fuel pinched but never motorhomes is that correct 🤔
Great vid Daz supper 💪
i like the rucks
Very useful vid, thanks Darren!
hey there I'm currently 19 and i want to be a camper like use ive watched so many cool videos of people building there's and your advice is amazing but also i need to do my driving lessons to get a licence any advice or tips to and what's the best way to get yourself a camper van for a beginner you may see this you may do or if anyone has advice please feel free to reply to this comment thank you
Check out Max.
youtube.com/@RustyRoseAdventures
He's a similar age to you and is working through a lot of the challenges you are facing. Insurance is likely to be the killer for a new driver. Good luck!
That was a great vlog
I bought my motorhome in November. Planning my first trip next month. First wild camping stop is going to be The Science Centre in Glasgow. Any experience there?
I recently found your channel & I am so enjoying the content. And I love your accent! Are you here in the states? You should put together a group camping event so us like minded peeps can meet. Thanks for the great videos.
I see Lou forgot to mention the scariest deterrent.... An Emily... 😲
No it's AJ. Mind you the threat of Em eating everyone's snacks perhaps you are right. X
Truck lay-bys? 🤔
Noisy sometimes, but popular. It's a legitimate place for to stop and get some rest. As long as you don't get out levelling ramps, camp chairs and a BBQ. 😁
thanks, guys really interesting from all sides. Now a question about having a drink, I like a couple of glasses of vino and was wondering how you all managed. I know Darren likes his fizzy pop. was wondering how you went about it. Easy for couples as one could have a drink the other one not, but being a single bloke doesn't want to have to be moved on if I have had a drink. Does it mean I have to go teetotal unless I am on a weekend off at a campsite? Thanks again am loving all the tips and info Paul in sunny Bournemouth
I'm mostly off the booze, which Vanlife friends will attest to as being a GOOD THING. I murder the karaoke.
anyway.. Drunk in charge is a serious offence if you're intoxicated by yourself, even if your in the back and not in the drivers seat. I've known some go to the extent of putting on steering wheel locks, rotating the driver's seat, parking ramps, etc to show there is no intent to drive.
Personally, I never take the risk.
@@Mevi thanks for taking the time to reply me thinks its time to check into the bette ford clinic LOL
This is a really cool video, great job.
Have you lived in your camper for 5.5 years full time? First video I’ve seen of yours so sorry if you’ve done a video about this already lol
What was the name of parking app? Also other app recommendations are welcome. I use iPhone.
Park4night
Hi Darren, Thankyou for the great, very informative videos. Please forgive my ignorance on both my enquiries, I'm looking at starting van life but I was hoping you could tell me why you chose a motorhome instead of a self build? Also, I've moved all over the country for work, so don't have close friends & don't have family, how do you register a vehicle if you don't have a permanent address? Hope you don't mind me picking your brain! Many thanks. Mick.
just come to scotland to wild camp,,only grief you get is someone rocking up to your van with some beers wanting a blether,,(chat)
Yeh you have a lot more camping freedom in Scotland than England. In England you can’t camp anywhere. We hired a motorhome for the N.C 500 last year, and every night we just pulled over where we liked and camped the night. The north east and west coast spots were stunning. Beautiful clear blue seas and golden sand beaches, it could pass for the Caribbean.🙂👍🏻
@@matty6848 Same rules apply in Scotland as they do England.
How do you manage about your mail and things like renewing driving license and needing a postal address?
New video coming this Friday about just that Keith 👍🏻😊
we went to a lovely (what we thought) spot, an old road (now layby) divided from the main road by trees etc, there must have been 10 or more cars with 'old' men therein, like you said my gut didn't like the spot, we moved on later checked and it was a dogging site..oops..not interested
Great advice from all of you, however, my thoughts spring to what was said, NO ONE was worried about the environment they park up in, their concerns lie with the fear of other people, which is sad really that society has come to this.
because it's not explicitly mentioned, doesn't mean that anti-social behaviour or harm to the environment is being encouraged.
Leave no trace. Clean up other people's litter. 😎👍
It's really hard to make one big video that covers each and every element of every possible scenario.
@@Mevi I think you misunderstood my comment, it was a positive comment not about the omission of certain elements 😊
I don't have nor want FB. Is there an app that helps nomads to connect?
the nice lady on here with her husband is typical of my wife puts a dampner on anything ! remotely exiting off the cuff or cheep
Can I ask where does the money come from if you are constantly on the road
Do you have a home address to register the vehicle to? Send parcels to?
What I worry about more then any thing ells about wild camping is getting water and toilet cleaning
Yeh true but if you’ve got a motorhome you’ve got a flushing toilet, shower and water storage. There’s plenty of places you can get water. Just stop at any shop, hotel etc ask politely and most will let you have their water. When we did the N.C 500 in Scotland that all me and the wife did. Most places let us use their bathroom facilities for water waste and fresh water.
Wonder if there are chicken wings in the woods 😜
I want to live in a motorhome
Yeah in the wild you could end up having wild dreams.
You forgot to say make sure you’ve got a phone signal just in case somebody tries it on Phil and Shaz Bollington Cheshire
Get a big dog? 🤔
Or aggressive cats.
Ladies do generally struggle as they tell me, if you got a man its much safer and better to share the exsperiance.
Have you ever been moved on ??
Having a big dog with sharp teeth helps.
And pepper spray. Straight in the face as they come through the door😂
You just start by getting a van and parking any damn where you want cause this is america, anyone knocks you give em some 2nd amendment for good measure and further peace of mind
Anything wild sounds a bit iffy.
Nooo don’t be daft. Wild camping is the best. Especially in Scotland where you can literally pull up next to the nearest Loch with views to kill.
Carry a starting pistol? 🤔
Firearms act. Even if it's not a real gun, if you were to waft it around like a real gun you can be charged with a firearms offence.
the new law is now in force it is now illegal see web site
@@joline2730 you gov uk
@@joline2730 not in the Uk now as new law passed in the uk parliament this month there is a you tube video on this subject
The new trespass laws have been passed and in force since June 2022.
Parking a motorhome anywhere in the UK without the landowners permission is trespassing.
This is not wildcamping. You are doing vanlife, not wildcamping. Stop hijacking our genre with misleading titles & descriptions.
#vanlifeisnotwildcamping
Just as nobody here is hammering tent pegs into a glacier, you're not parked with a sea view eating sandwiches.
Who on earth gets mixed up between two entirely different "genres"?
#justwords
Nahh im gonna get abuse for this, but you cant 'wild camp' in a van or a motorhome, you just park it up. Same as you would do anywhere else but the scenery is different
That really was a great video that Daz. 👊 I would like to email you at some point for a little advise moving forward if ok with you pal.
Thanks mate! 👍🏻😊
Yeah course, happy to help, email me at darran@theurbanmotorhome.com
I have a pack of dogs who will take someone's face off if they come near me lol
Definitely look up some apps like Park4night. Out first well to the side of the road lay-by on the A30 turned out to be a dogging site. Oops.