Hey folks, excuse the delay, we had a mad weekend catching up and the heat is causing some issues, but I'll go into detail on that in a later video.
This week Lance visits the vets & becomes Portuguese, Emma sets off on her first solo outing, and I tinker around the land, stumble across a boar, welcome some guest...
Hey all,
Happy Wednesday! As this posts we are currently out in the middle of the ocean returning home to Portugal, finally!
It over run a bit, and although It's been nice seeing family and friends whilst back on the whole my feelings about England were compounded on this visit 😆 It's been testing.
But that's a st...
This week we get close up and personal with many of the wildlife creatures we share the land with, some a little too close for comfort...
2022-06-25 17:20:59 +0000 UTC View Post
With my Brother still with us, we make a start on a few jobs around the land.
Mostly around the rear area of the trailer, creating a mini-terrace workspace.
As we begin building up the walls and raising the level of the ground though, the wind picks up with destructive results.
Whilst back in the UK I got onto sorting out why the van’s RPMs were too high and burning through fuel.
There were a number of options but all expensive. 😑
I decided to go with the less mechanical & journey stopping option of digging out the old 16” wheels from “the other Sprinter”, having them sand...
2022-06-17 10:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
My younger brother Jordan pops in for a while as he makes his own journey through Europe for the first time.
We play with a myriad of new toys & make a start on clearing the old well.
The plan was to drain it completely and clean, but it's a little deeper than we first thought.
Hello you lovely lot, how we doing?
Just a quick photo update for you whilst we’re busy getting some bits done here in the UK.
The wedding was Saturday just gone and was well worth the trip, Emma got to see a load of her old work colleagues and I got to meet all of them and put faces to many stories I’ve been ...
2022-06-07 20:51:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I was generously given an old wind turbine oh over a year ago now which has sat patiently in pieces in the trailer until we could make it back to the land and bring it back to life.
I did make a brief start on it when i first picked it up, but soon got pulled back onto the trailer project itself and other stuff, but now...
2022-06-01 09:41:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting the land back under control is an ongoing mission but we make headway, until an awesome storm confines us to the deck once again.
We try out the wet tracks with the vans to see how they fair up now, mine with all the bee mechanicals and Emma’s first climb, and the offroading continues as we meet up with Martin...
2022-05-19 10:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all!
Things on the land have begun to settle and sink in that we'd actually made it and could chill out.
That chill lasted a month, not gunna lie to you, we vegged hard.
A couple of things got done and project started, but because we wanted too.
After the fast pace of, well most of 2022 so far, it was in...
Before we could sit back and switch off after the big trip over, first we had to get the trailer into its place.
That was not an easy task but we vaguely managed it and began to let it sink in that we had made it back.
We "perfected" the trailer the next day and had a look around the land that we'd left...
2022-05-04 21:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! I hope your well,
Im just working on the next video where we are attemting to locate the trailer the night we arrived. 😱
Below is a screen grab from that night with a before and after shot of the tool shed, I stumbled across the orininal photo the other week and it’s crazy how it was just ...
2022-04-30 19:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that the video of our return is out I can start to share some photos of whats been going on over the past 3 weeks, some of which will give you some clues on whats to come. 😉
We’ve been busy but none of it has felt like work, just a nice slow pace, plenty of graft mixed with plenty of breaks, sangria,...
2022-04-25 00:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks!
Part 2 is up for your viewing pleasure now.
We disembark in Santander and face an "interesting" experience in the port, before making our way 600 miles south through the dead of night to Portugal.
Hope you enjoy.
It's been 1 year and 3 months since we had to leave our land in Portugal. (not that we've been counting or anything)
With a Covid restrictions & Brexit cocktail of ever changing rules we had no choice but to drop everything and return the the UK where we got stuck waiting to hear on our residency. Well now we ...
2022-04-15 11:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post
So after 4 months of farting around with vehicle internals you’d have thought I’d be done with all that, but no!
Geoff had asked me right at the start of us moving into the unit if at some point we could have a play with his lovely little Citroen HY72 that he’d started restoring 8 years ago but gave up ...
2022-04-10 10:46:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
We've made it! and that's all I'll say on that front as I still have some videos back in the UK to get through, but we made it without any major hassle and life is once again good, just a lot of work ahead, this place is wild!
So in this video I start weeding out the small issues wit...
2022-04-03 19:32:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
Thanks for bearing with me whilst we are getting sorted in prep too leave the UK.
It's been a mad few weeks and as always we've been kept busy right up to the last few days, but we're almost set... I think.
Anyway here's a little slightly different video to the usual during the downtime, the night Jo...
Hey you lovely lot and hello to you few newcomers that have recently signed up.
Sorry I've been quiet this week, since the gathering last weekend it's been even more crazy here than usual.
But, we have some great news!
Firstly, thank you to all the folks that came to the South Central meet, it was...
2022-03-12 18:07:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We're getting there folks!
This has to be the closest to real time I've been for about 2 years!
Ady returns to tackle the titanic-like chassis on Amber, I'm able to get the cooling system fitted so can start running engine tests and fault finding there, and the van is beginning to look like a van once again!
Unt...
Hey folks!
Sorry I've gone a little quiet again lately, it's been another mad few weeks but all the work has paid off! Amber passed her MOT last week! (That's a UK yearly safety inspection for any non-UK folk on here).
So I'm now onto the niggles and small issues that have shown their faces on the test drives but al...
Now that the van is running again, the real fun begins. It's time to address the many niggles that have or will show their face now the van is being built back up. We hit the electrical issues, sort out the power steering, move the gearbox cross member and send the prop away to get lengthened, amongst many other jobs.
2022-02-15 13:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This time we start work on fitting Emma's beautiful narrow boat wood burning stove onto the plinth we'd built for it months ago. The video is a little bitty in places as it was during this time I was going hell for leather rebuilding my van at the same time, but with the after hours assistance from John, this was made a reall...
2022-02-04 11:33:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's the night! Will all the work put into my full-time home-on-wheels pay off? After an engine swap, semi-auto to manual conversion, new wiring looms, ambulance setup removal & and much more, there is a lot of room in there for error. But with everything plugged back in, the only thing left is to turn that new key.<...
2022-01-28 17:41:34 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s great to see a face re-appearing on the van again. Even if it has come at some extra cost.
The welding work has escalated somewhat, as it usually does, but it’s all in good hands with my amazing welder Ady, who takes one look at things and says “nah that’s fine, we’ll sort that” whilst I’m on the floo...
2022-01-27 09:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We dig out the replacement engine and give it some TLC, a new clutch and pull off some of the more "sticky-out" parts that'll likely hit my fresh engine bay paint.
Then a battle pursues of trying to get this thing in the bay, the engine fought us, the gearbox fought us, the fork lift fought us and my cameras fought us.
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LINK: https://youtu.be/YiZurSSP9zU
Sorry for the delay folks, this has been a long week of welding and sorting issues, it totally slipped my mind to get the info to you about the livestream tonight or indeed that we were doing it until today...
2022-01-22 16:47:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The tear down is over! The cogs have stopped spinning backwards on this project and have started to turn back in the right direction as I start fitting the new essential manual parts and build the van back up.
There was a lot going on at this point, as it was only here the vast majority of the past swaps, wiring ...
Remember, watch this on YouTube to bring up the chat window and be able to get involved. Cya later 👍🏻
