Van Life in Llandudno - Such a Lovely Seaside Town.
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Welcome to my Channel,
My name is James and I live full time in my tiny van, however this is not just a van life channel. I enjoy travel, food and drink and making videos 🙂
When I turned 50 I decided I’d had enough of the rat race and working long hours just to pay rent and bills, life was passing me by and I needed a drastic change.
FAQ
Where is Helen?
Helen has a responsible full time job and two children so unfortunately she can’t join me on every trip. I really wish she could.
What equipment do you use?
My vlogging camera is a GoPro Hero 9 but I also use my pixel 6a phone and Lumix G80 camera for other footage
For editing, I used Premiere Pro on an old laptop but I’m saving to buy a more powerful computer.
Do you have children?
Yes I have a 6yr old daughter who lives with her mum but I see her quite a lot. I don’t usually put her on the vlogs and if I do, I block out her face for privacy reasons. I also have a grown up son.
How do you fund your lifestyle?
I don’t need as much to live these days since going full time van life but I receive a small percentage of income from the ads that UA-cam put on the videos.
Why the sponsored videos?
I only accept sponsorship from companies I use and trust, this is my fulltime job and my income, it’s how I support my family. (I have Patreon if you prefer videos with no ads).
How do I contact you?
Please contact me here: james@bythecurb.co.uk
Fantastic video as always, you lovely people always make me smile with your warmth and fun, you are both a breath of fresh air, Llandudno looks a really nice town, thanks for sharing another quality vlog ❤️👍
I thought you would have mentioned the Great Orme! That was the big hill in the back ground. Never mind, looks like you had a great day out anyway. Watch out for those Seagulls, they can get quite aggressive especially when it comes to chips and ice cream. 😂
The Cottage Loaf is a good pub, lovely food and atmosphere xx
Best pub for food in Llandudno...
@@careyroberts3924 Agreed. Sunday lunch is fantastic.
The Great Orme in Llandudno provided the world's richest source of copper from about 4,000 years ago until the 1800s - not many people know that !!😃😃
love watching you two, great couple....Helen is the free wheeling, positive, free spirit type ying, to your more dour, realistic, down to earth yang, lovely vibe exudes from you two, great couple. subscribed after seeing the first vlog
Thank you for the sub
Love llandudno and conwy... Beautiful places and a gateway to Snowdonia. A bit of a trek from Derbyshire but well worth it!! If you Google maps the promenade in nice, France.. it's pretty much identical to llandudno!!
Just spent a few nights in Llandovery last week. It's stunning down there whatever the weather
Glad you both liked Llandudno. Had some great breaks there over the years. Shame you didn't walk around the Orme or go up it. One of the best wetherspoons too.
Ya know other night my Wife and were saying we wish you would go to Llandudno. Thank you both so very much. Xx
Absolutely love Llandudno ❤️ love watching you two
Hey you two nice to see you in our neck of the woods.we dont live far from Llandudno .Alice in wonderland had a deep connection to Llandudno dating back to 1861 8yr old Alice Pleasance Liddell (the real Alice in wonderland) spent her summer holidays in Llandudno.Her holiday home 'penmorfa' was built on the wrst shore.Thats especially for you Helen.You need to go to Anglesey you'll love it.
Enjoy yourselves 😊x
Have a look at Hebden Bridge, there is a Pub just outside of the Town which allows campers on their Carpark. The Stubbing Wharfe.
I've probably been within a mile of everywhere in England and Scotland but I've only had one night on mushrooms near Cardiff 38 years ago. I've no excuses.
It looks an absolutely lovely place to visit no borded up shops and some beautiful buildings. Love your channel my friend. ❤
Thank you Tony 😊
I think it’s pronounced chlandidno in Welsh, James!
Nice to see the lovely Helen again!
Such a star and funny too!
Another good vlog James well done. My wife has never been to wales but we will be visiting soon i hope.
Hope you're both well great videos down to earth real life 👍
Fab video love Llandudno spent a lot of time there when i was a kid. Mum would make a pan of scouse and we would drive up the great Orme she would heat up the scouse with a small gas camping stove and we would run riot. kids didn't need a lot in them days haha🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like a wonderful memory 😊
Rodee carpark chester lol, llandudno lovely place in the summer as most of north Wales is...Betws-Y-coed is really nice and the Royal Oak Pub is a nice place for a meal..
My wife grew up in Old Colwyn, absolutely lovely in the summer.
If you can get to south stack lighthouse you won't be disappointed with the views, absolutely stunning.
Love Llandudno. On the way up to the Great Orme by the Tram station there is a pub called 'Kings Head'', if you've not been in and are still in the area get up there, such a fantastic pub it's worth visiting Llandudno for!
Hi guys, the place looks lovely. Enjoy your week in wales. Peace 🧚
Im a propper Barnsley bloke. Thurnscoe born n bred. now i live in Colwyn bay. Love it so much here. so thank you for your vlogs. im in my fifties. keep the channel going. Love it.
Thanks mate 😊❤️
Always been impressed with Llandudno nice sunny weather because the Gulf Stream passes through .The down side of it gets over crowded and not very good for parking .Looking forward to a visit soon but not holding my breath Helen like me fetish for handbags and hats
Hi James and Helen! I had no idea Llandudno was so picturesque. I'm especially loving the Victorian wrought iron canopies over the shops. When Helen said she could imagine Victorian ladies walking down the promenade, I could picture it too. I think it's fab the amount of subscribers you meet out and about on your adventures, look how far you have come! All your success is thoroughly deserved, the cinematography on your vids is top drawer. Am I right in saying Helen is a glass half full kind of girl, whereas you are more of a glass half empty kind of guy? It's lovely seeing you both meet in the middle 🤗 Ta-Ra for now (gfta) 😊🇬🇧
Haha I think that would be a fair description 😂
You must go in the Cottage Loaf ,best pub in Llandudno just behind Wetherspoons
Decent pub up the road owned by the same company called the snowdon
We have only just discovered you two in the last few weeks...watched loads of your vids.....you are both great together...love the banter....pub crawls..🤣🍻...looking forward to this episode...it's our stomping ground in our campervan.....love Anglesey aswel......keep the vids coming.....and keep smiling...............
Thank you 😊❤️
You rite in scouse lol
We've just landed home after a very long weekend in Conwy, first time there, we definitely agree with you, loved it. We had a day in Llandudno also and were also impressed.
Keep your fantastic videos coming ❤
Thank you 😊
Thanks to you both for bringing back to me a childhood memories😢 of a very rare family holiday.
No money to talk of in those days so holidays were few and far between, but trip to Llandudno and fishing of that pier also trip up the great orme on tramway . both parent gone now but thanks for bringing back to me the good times with them.
Helen showing us here wee wee thing then you panning camera to a bottle of water got me thinking 😂
Go on James let Helen Drive your van 👍👍 great video as always.
That shop you were looking in with the dress in the window used to be one of the most up market shoe shops in the county. It closed about 5 years ago
What was the name of that shop? JCB.
Really enjoy the James and Helen expedition week. Well done to you both great location 😊😊😊
Hi guys 🙋♀️thanks for the shout out was lovely to meet you both . You must come to north wales again so many great places to visit xx
You're welcome Sue, it was lovely to meet you all too. We love North Wales 😍 maybe James just a tiny bit less after I dragged him up Yr Wyddfa 🤣 you will see tomorrow 🙈 I did say at any point we can turn around and go back! 😄 Xx
@@bythecurb 🤣🤣can’t wait to watch it xx
Hi guys on the way home you'll possibly hit signs for Chester well if you get time head towards Nantwich you guys will love it ❤
Thanks you two we were there some years ago, your video made us want to go back. Keep up doing your very entertaining videos.❤
You should definitely come back in the summer it’s like a totally different place
Hi James and Helen how U both doing you looking both great .... Cracking video cu on next one ....
A seaside town that hasn’t declined its lovely and the cable car up
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The Great Orme is amazing
Great to see some fellow Yorkshire brethren in my neck of the woods. You could have come for tea if I knew. xxx
Made my day, going to Llandudno, you must go again. So many many places and things to do. Super vlog as usual. Love to J and H x x x
😂😂wicked video, you just simply make me laugh and smile!! …. Smithy
Llandudno looks nice, Hope your doing crib goch while your on your adventure
im new here been flicking through ur vids liked um helen ur one nice lady talk about bubbley u light up where u go keep it up both
Good show James & Helen 👍🐕🚐👊
Honest to god!😂😂😂😂 Havnt heard that for a while! Love you guys makes my day.😂😂🇬🇧
Tenby South Wales,long journey but well worth it beautiful
Near us in Cap d'Agde, at Balaruc 🇨🇵on the Étang de Thau, famous for its oyster 🦪 beds, the seagulls are notorious for attacking the trays of opened oysters carried by bow-tied, aproned waiters as they leave the restaurant to deliver seafood to patrons on the terrace in the sun.
Scary buggers 😮😱🙄. Llandudno looks great 👍+1.
Hello James. Lovely vlog.good to see Helen in her lovely dress and you, of course, in your blue jacket bought in the sale😊
😂😂
So nice to hear the term ‘upper circle’ in the palladium. It’s been 50 years since I heard that!
Llandudno is a brilliant place to visit with the warm air and the great smell of candy floss and the crowds of visitors. Come back in the summer and you will love it 🎉❤
Looked like you had a lovely time, poor James you will be having nightmares about yr walk, ps u can always wimp out and take the train 😂. Looking forward to seeing the rest of yr week’s adventure. Seeetheeee Maxx
Great vlog, so pleased you got to Llandudno, we visited for the first time last year and absolutely loved it, can't wait to go back. You even got the sun. Enjoy your trip you two 😊
Another great vlog James, looking forward to the rest during your break.
Ps great walk at Llandudno great orme
Stay there with the mrs regularly love it great place too chill .
You need to take Helen and do a pub review😂 and you need to come back to Manchester and review the Gay village and Northern quarter. Love watching you but so much better with Helen 😂 she's ace ❤
Brilliant, Thanks Guys.
Can’t wait to watch!
Hi were you are there landudno theres a hill next to it called the great orme you drive up it from the bottom of the pier its beatiful theres plently to see from there enjoy
Nice place.. weather was kind too.. have fun. 👍🙏
We've been lucky with the weather this week 😊
The connection between Llandudno and Alice in Wonderland is through Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Alice - Alice Liddell, whose family had a holiday home in the town. The landscape is also thought to have inspired Carroll, as some local landmarks make an appearance in the Alice books.
Thanks for showing us such a surprisingly attractive town ,agree that the buildings look amazing ,a victorian seaside town with a beach and all the trimmings . Maybe inspiration for some merch ,by the curb tabbards ,ha ha .Looking forward to the next vlog .
Thank you for letting us tag along.
You are so welcome!
We have also just found you two great people! We are catching up. What a great laugh you have given us.! Thank you so much and keep up the good work! Sandra and Pete ❤😊
Thank you Sandra and Pete 😊❤️
Happy days
EY-UP JAMES ‘n’HELEN , I have never been to Wales despite many offers and invitations , life’s “curve balls “ and all that. I will go one day but until then, I am well on board with you two on this trip. Looking forward to seeing the mountains and hills,you look upon. As you go from place to place,can you please let us know what you think of the driving experience as well as your destinations. Best wishes as always, MICK. 🤝👍
It's "clandidno". If you venture onto Anglesey, let me know and we'll buy you a pint. Like all UK resorts, Llandudno's best days are behind it, but it's aged a lot better than most.
Another nice video. 👍
Get yourselves to Harlech and St Meirion, sent from High Hoyland!
Glad that you enjoyed it ,great video
Another Brilliant Vlog can't wait for the rest
Try The Cottage Loaf pub next time your there. Its always packed and some great beers too.
Grate vlog James and Helen looks like a grate place to.
Another great video. Llandudno was me and better halfs first holiday together. It doesn't seem as nice as was , which seems a shame ( I'm going back to the 90's). We have lots of lovely memories there, we got married at Conwy.
Sending lots of love to you and Helen❤❤
Thank you :-)
Llandudno is lovely. Great video guys ❤
Lovely vlog,gorgeous architecture love Llandudno ❤
Welcome to my home town.....busy working so wouldnt have bumped into you both. Can I suggest a trip down the coast to Harlech and Barmouth.
Love barnmouth☺️
Brilliant vid and really enjoyed viewing. Just frustratingly short and.could.of.been another 15-20 mins .was really disappointed that you didn't film your coffee on the end of the pier and show the arcades .also cannot believe you went to Llandudno and didn't do the great orme tramway which is well worth doing and gives you a fantastic view from the top of the whole town and bay .cant wait for next episode .
Sorry, I had to edit it short because my Internet connection has been poor and it would've been too long to upload. I filmed the cafe at the end of the pier but unfortunately there was loud music so I couldn't use the footage because of copyright restrictions 😕
I really enjoyed that video very interesting, and even better when the sun came out😊
Wales is beautiful, my daughter went to Uni in Bangor and we often visited her and camped near Caernarfon with our trailer tent. Had lots of fun things to do, went down the slate mines, Chairlift up to the Great Orme, The Zoo, zip lines and Anglessey is also very beautiful. Really should go back one day, she is going back to see her Uni friends at Easter, it will always have a special place in her heart as she met her boyfriend at Uni and is getting married next year 😄
Tell your daughter congratulations 🥰
James & Helen thankyou for meeting us at Llandudno and mentioning us it was fabulous to see you both just as on the videos you are a great couple we all look forward to watching all your travels 😊
Thank you so much Cheryl, it was lovely to meet you all too 😊
My lasting memory of the place is walking around there in 1971 and a seagull decided to let loose over my mate. It was like he had a full tin of white emulsion tipped over his head and Levi jacket.
Oh no!! 😂
You too are Fabulous Sending you much Love x❤
Just laughing at seagulls! When we were there in the same exact spot a women had a bag of chips and she was buried in them! You could not see her for the frenzy of gulls! It was quite scary really!! They went mental!! lol
Thanks both ,Brilliant vlog 😅
Beautiful place,food looked delicious 😋 you two just make me laugh,love it ,hats was great guys, really suit 😊
Well enjoy your hike have fun,look forward to the next one 😂❤
Thank you 😊❤️
Can I just say I love your content. Been subscribed for a while now and love your van. From Liverpool originally but have lived in lovely south Yorkshire for 5 years in the past. Now live in Lancashire now. Helen is a legend. Reminds me of my missus giggy with a few pints and reading all the signs😂. Just watched this vid as been to Llandudno lots of times and always loved it. Being from Liverpool family hols were always in north Wales. Try the great orm it's amazing. Anyway. Keep up the good content and see ye soon.
Thank you 😊❤️
Great video we love it there always stay in a hotel on the front not really that expensive aswell ❤❤looks like you both had a lovely time together xxxxxx ❤❤
You two are such a breath of fresh air. A million thanks xx
Thank you Lee 😊
Just watched this video, great job Helen does brighten up the van, seriously you two bounce off each other really nicely
You didn't have time to do the tram up the Great Orme, never mind you enjoyed it. We are off there in a few weeks on a coach trip and visiting Betsy Coed and Portmadoc.
You're a nice couple..enjoy your videos
Thank you 😊❤️
my comments be too late as yor vlog done earlier but the copper mine is a must brill vid as always
great video guys
You two are great 😂😀😀😀
Thank you 😊❤️
Love you guys… looking forward to the hiking video
Thank you mate
James...Helen....It just cant be better than Matlock Bath!
The axe throwing place is fantastic and Johnny Doughs pizza's next door are just the best 😊
Nice to have my hometown featured on By The Curb!
Love Llandudno visit regularly our daughter 15 mins away Rhos on Sea is another great place to visit around 10 mins on the coast rd cracking vid guys 😊
There’s so much to see and do in north wales Anglesey is amazing
Hey ,hang on James.. Helen can't drive your van, yet you drive her car! Mind you Helen, That would suit me just fine... you can always have a drink Lol.
Been going to Llandudno since I was about 3. Not been recently though - nice to see nothing's changed much. Lovely atmosphere created by the Victorian architecture and seaside location. Now you need to climb the Great Orme for the views.
Very strict planning regulations thankfully.
It's about time 😊