SNOWED IN! - In England? Really!
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2023
- After leaving Aviemore in the last video we once again experience being stranded. This time in Ambleside in the Lake District. A major localised snow storm, brought the town of Ambleside and surrounding area to a standstill as traffic was unable to move due to the depth of the snow. We took an early decision to stay put where we enjoyed the snow, but struggled to get water from frozen pipes and ran out of gas in our attempts to stay warm in the van.
Despite the conditions, we managed to get laundry done and enjoyed a pub lunch before leaving early in the morning navigating past the many abandoned vehicles.
This is episode 102 in a series of videos cataloguing our post retirement adventures. We are Kath and Sue and we are travelling the UK with our two dogs Archie and Fudge and living full time in our Burstner Elegance Motorhome. We have given up conventional living for a new van-life, enjoying the freedom of the road and plenty of time outdoors taking in the beautiful countryside the UK has to offer.
Nice video, thank you. I enjoyed watching it.
Thank you for kind words and of course watching. 🤗🙏🚌❤️
I am sooooooo envious, Ambleside and snow, not a lot better ❤❤
🤣🤣🤣so true. My favourite place covered in snow. Hard to imagine anything better. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
Couldn’t have said it better myself
🇮🇪 Good video sharing
Thank you 🙏 🤗🚌❤️
Lovely area and nice to see some snow ❄️ ❄️ Getting Calor Gas has been difficult so your right Electric hook up if possible.
I’ve been thinking about changing the gas system for ages. Time to bite the bullet I think. 🙏🤗🚌❤️🎄
Just great as always ❤XX
Thank you. Xx
Hi, lovely scenery love that part of the world. Safe travels
Thank you. It’s amazing how many people just love the Lakes. I’m definitely a lifelong fan. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
Awwww Delamere one of my favourite local places ❤
It’s become a bit of a go to stopover for us as works well for both dogs and Sue’s running. 🤗🚌❤️
@@MotorhomeMums does it work out expensive staying at campsites all the time?
@@RobboAndTheculv We don't stay on campsites all the time, although more often than not and definitely more in the winter. During the lighter months, when we can get solar, even if we stay on campsite we tend to go for the small sites (CS or CL) and don't need EHU so that works out quite cheap. Over the spring and summer of 2023 we paid between £7 and £15 pn on sites and £0 to £7 for park-ups without services. During the winter, the cost of gas makes a campsite with EHU quite economical for us and with the cost of gas this year anything up to £30 pn is breaking even at this time of year when we have the heating on. We need hard standing this time of year when it's very wet, so bigger sites fit the bill, although there are still a few CS and CL sites open all year so we can get lower prices. If we can average over a year a budget of £600 per month then we feel that's ok and much less than living in a house.
@@MotorhomeMums thanks for your reply, we stumbled across your videos last night and as we're on the verge of going full time (with seasonal campsite work) it's good to have lots of opinions on how to make it work xx
@@RobboAndTheculv oh wow. How exciting. We love it. I think if you like the outdoors and can live a minimalist life what’s not to love. Good luck. 👍
Hi, I just found your channel and look forward to binge-watching while I make things to show on my channel. You ladies are living the life I wanted to live but my body had other plans and I just sold my RV. Broke my heart. never got to go full time and closed my RV travels UA-cam down. So now I will live my dream through you and others doing it. Live every single day to the fullest and go as long as you can because you never know when the Golden years will reach up and slap you down. But never give up!!!
Oh I am so sorry to hear you had to sell your RV. I hope you still have good memories. You are so right about living every day, it’s too easy to take things for granted. We feel so privileged to be living this lifestyle and will definitely make the most of it for as long as we can. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
Wonderful drone shots.
Thank you.
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Thank you. I was lucky to have a very still day. Very rare in the hills. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
just found you, what a lovely vlog and well filmed etc.. keep up the great work, looking forward to seeing your future adventures. x
Thank you. I hope we don’t disappoint you. If only we could always have snow. ⛄️ 🙏🤗🚌❤️
Been tuned in for a while - lovely content - and great to see your subscribers hit 1k - well done
Awww. Thank you. I was buzzing last night when I saw that. I love doing it so it’s not a hardship but a 1000 subscribers feels like a milestone. Much appreciated. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
Just discovered your channel. Really enjoyed it and looking forward to seeing previous and those to come.
Thank you. Hope we don’t disappoint. We are not very professional but I do love making the videos. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
Wow it did look wonderful with all that snow X More adventures now you've moved though X Keep Warm X
Thank you. We loved the snow as we were lucky enough to be able to stay put. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
It's a very beautiful nature place
Agreed. It’s one of those places that looks different every day depending on the weather. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
nice Vlog ladies, hope you get out safe 😊
Thank you. We escaped relatively unscathed. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
Glad to see your over your troubles and on the move again lovely Christmas scenery
Can’t wait for next weeks vlog we are off in our newly converted van next year for a two week break in Scotland looking forward to it, it’s been a long time 😁❤x
Safe travels Natalie & Karen Tay 🐕& Sanna🐕x
That sounds really exciting. We just loved Scotland. Something for you to look forward to. Happy Travels. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
Great vlog. We are hoping to go back up to Glenmore in January
Oh I am so envious. We miss it already. I think we will be back sometime next year. Enjoy your trip. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
You could Get your own Christmas card out of the drone shots. Looked ace 😊
🤣🤣never thought of that. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
The snow looked beautiful, but not fun to drive in.
Loved the drone videos. :)
Awww! Thank you. Snow was fun for us but only because we were lucky enough to stay. Not such fun for people trying to get through it, but local people were brilliant. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
@@MotorhomeMums You’re welcome, keep doing them please lol.
Snow is great if you don’t have to go anywhere i.e work! Then it’s not so good.
Another lovely vlog-those cross climate tyres will be getting a good test. Plugged my van in at home overnight when it was cold last week it ran up around £10 on my home smart metre - camping in the Peak District this evening and glad of EHU! Look forward to seeing where you end up next - Sharon
I’m so glad I changed the tyres, the cross climate tyres really impressed me when driving in the snow. Enjoy the Peak District. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
@@MotorhomeMums❤
Hi, really beautiful to see Ambleside like that and the drone footage was especially wonderful! We’d love to be stuck up there with you and Sasha enjoying the snow! So glad to hear your windscreen is fixed. What a palaver for you. I hope you might find a hook up and snow for Christmas to make it especially festive! I’ve got some catching up to do of your videos- a health incident has led me to be unfortunately so busy I’ve been missing watching you guys regularly lately. Hoping you’re all well and that Archie didn’t suffer I’ll effects from the snow. Take care, Anna xx p.s. please don’t worry about repeating info about campsites - your views and the info you give out are really useful especially to us dog owners and it saves us having to go back and find the previous video🤣🤣🤣
Thank you. I hope you are ok after health issue. Archie was a bit wobbly in the snow but otherwise he coped very well Fudge of course loved it. 😜🤗🙏🚌❤️
Just found you, subscribed. Made up you was in Haydock as i live in St Helens.
Thank you. Do appreciate that. My parents live in Haydock so if you see the van anytime give us a wave 👋 🙏🤗🚌❤️
@@MotorhomeMums will defo wave
We are missing the snow, hopefully get some for Christmas, Kath you are so right about paying for ehu in winter, although we just filled up with gas after 10 weeks, 1 of which was off grid and it cost £8.54, so providing you can get gas I think you should consider Gaslow setup, great video with lovely footage 🙏👍👊🥰🏴🚌
I have made enquiries and our Motorhome man will fit them for us. I haven’t mentioned before on the vlog, but the reason we were static so long near Troon was that Sue lost her Dad so we’ve been thrown off for a while. I also want to reduce our weight so I can go for the 11kg bottles. Getting back on track so definitely something to get sorted next year. Gaslow is what will work for us and probably pay for itself quite quickly.
@@MotorhomeMums so sorry to hear that about sue’s dad, I’m sure it will pay for itself, especially as in the north and Scotland it’s still plentiful, 🥰
“Deep snow”?!! Where?😳😳😳😳
🤣🤣🤣Deep for us. It was actually quite deep in the fields. Mid shin for me, although I am quite short. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
We’ve been looking at UK vans and are there any around like ours that are all diesel and therefore not reliant on gas ?? We have diesel heating and a cooktop which are awesome in cold weather ! Loved the drone shots and the Lakes showing off its glory !
I think most of the modern campervan are all 12v and use diesel heaters for the cold so don’t use gas. Not sure whether motorhomes are the same. Most of the ones I see use gas, although not necessarily the changeable calor bottles. Refillable LPG is definitely much cheaper and really easy to get in Europe. Fewer LPG stations in the UK, but apparently still doable. I’ve been considering changing to that for sometime just haven’t got around to it yet. Sue lost her Dad in October which is why we were static for some time and everything got put on the back burner. Lakes was just the tonic we needed. 🙏🤗🚌❤️
Snow in England
Pretty unbelievable right!🙏🤗🚌
Doesn’t it get on your nerves that suppliers always jump on the bandwagon to raise prices as soon as they can regardless of whether they need to or not ❤
It’s been a bit of a bug bear for a while. I love it when we find a supplier that doesn’t feel the need to elevate prices. We have found a few. 🙌
Did you see eney snakes aders.
🤣🤣no. Think they must have been hiding to keep warm. 🤗🚌❤️
For God's sake, get a grip. There is about a half inch of snow. SNOWED IN? You are lucky you don't live somewhere they get real snow. UK is the only place that shuts down over a rumour of bad weather. JEEZ.
Clearly you don’t know the Lake District
🤣🤣it was definitely more than half an inch, but you’re right in that the UK struggles. I guess as it’s so infrequent that the cost of fleets of snow plows that need to be housed somewhere and maintained for the odd few days a year that they may be needed is not worth it. So gritting it is. 🙏🤗🚌
Calm down mate. If the roads are dangerous then they’re snowed in, no matter if it’s an inch or 10 inches of snow.
The snow just adds to the problems of manoeuvring around narrow winding busy roads. Many English roads were built before the combustion engine existed and didn’t allow for cars, buses and caravans!
Loved seeing the snow.