Hi there. The reason I stuck with the same product is because Amazon refunded the money in the way of a gift card balance. It was only enough to purchase another Renogy unit rather than a Victron sadly. The difference in cost was quite a lot. But I suppose you pay for quality. One day we hope to buy a better van. And with that, we’ll be kitting it out with Victron equipment & Lifepo4 batteries. Thanks

That is true, victron are more money, 😊

@@cathmann1 I’m glad it was helpful for you.

Good morning. I think it’s just the way the camera showed it. When Laura started initially, there was 3 people on the range. They were all on next to each other & there was plenty of space. And the guy who ran it (Andy) was very safety focused. Even when he was showing other people what to do later on, he was still watching Laura too to make sure she was ok. And Laura loved it. She recommends it to anyone/everyone

@@CK-wl1bf it was a really chilled weekend. I think the combination of being children-free, nice weather & extra space by using the gazebo & wind breaks as an awning all helped. I love flying the drone, I’m still not the best at it though. As you would’ve seen, I still get the controls the wrong way round & I’m not the smoothest flyer. But I’m getting better (I hope)

Good Morning David. Yeah Laura really loved the axe throwing. For the drinks, I assume because the vendors (I assume) would’ve had to pay a premium to be there, they had to charge a premium to make their money back. It didn’t make it easier handing a tenner over for 1 drink though & not getting any change from it. No matter where you’re from, that’s unreal. For the drone, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I love using it & hope to use it a lot more in future videos. I’m just not the best when it comes to flying it. But hopefully I’ll get better at it when I’m using it more Thanks for taking the time to watch the video & leave a comment. Have a great day

@@petersefcsik2916 vanlife can be cheap. Just not the van 😂

@@OP-fd4lh no worries. I only wish it’d been a better experience with Renogy customer service and I’d been able to get the only charge controller working again. But I’m grateful that Amazon support came to the rescue & got us up & running again with replacement items.

Thank you

The Pizza was worth the effort. Laura thoroughly enjoyed it. Yeah it wasn’t the night I had planned. But nothing ever seems to go to plan for me. At least the bed at home was comfy 😂 Someone recommended a different app (searchforsites), so we’ve downloaded that to see if it’s any better than park4night. Hopefully the next one will be better 🤞

@@ourvan.ourway ah was gonna say that - why you paying for P4N - it’s free? Or do they now charge and I have an old free version? Yeah I’ve never looked at that one, have heard of it tho. Tbh my absolute go to is super Simple… Google Earth and then Google Streetview - almost all of my car camps I’ve found this way 🙏

We have the free version of p4n, but we’ve been told the paid for version shows more parking spots than the free one. Yeah if I’d looked hard enough, then I could’ve found a different spot after 3 failed attempts. But to be honest, I was a bit sick by that point. But Google maps + street view is a good tip. Thank you 👍

@@ourvan.ourway that’s weird my comments disappeared 😂 mind you, this happens all the time to me and others - but at least you saw it before it went 😂 I’d never realised p4n had a paid part, it used to be just you have to register and then you’d see more - clearly they wanna make some £££s now ☺️ Yeah this is always my fear with the unplanned ones…. Hunting for spaces 😭

I’ve had a proper look. It’s p4n+ You can access it offline, use advance searches etc.. but I think I’m wrong for getting additional sites. My apologies. The + version is €9.99 per year though. But I’ll definitely explore different options. Relying on p4n only clearly isn’t working for me/us Edit - your comments are still visible to me. Not sure what’s going on. But I’ve had this happen to me too in the past

Laura thought she wasn’t going g to be able to leave to get to work the next day. I thought that was hilarious much to Laura’s disgust. Maybe we’ll try it again when we are both off 😂 Yes the pizza was amazing, would definitely recommend trying it

Thank you. I’ve just downloaded it now so we can use it for the next time we go out in the van. Thank you 😀

@@peterwilson5528 thank you

@@THErealBRITSofFlorida yes it was a lovely spot we were at. But the company definitely made it more special. It was nice to just chat for hours & not care about our everyday troubles for a bit. We’ll hopefully catch up with them again soon. Thanks for the subscription & support, it’s great to see our numbers climbing. We’re still amazed that 300+ people have subscribed & actually want to see us. Take care

@@paintedpreppers-airguns absolutely. Though I didn’t drink because I was driving

I'm so grateful for everything he does for us. Not just fixing the van (I just tried to keep this video van related). But for everything else too. Even for just for being there to have someone to chat to about rubbish to after we've both had a long day at work. I'd be lost without him.

@@ourvan.ourway Dads are special mine was the same was good at everything mechanical i lost him 7 years ago and miss him every day .. take care

It was an amazing display. #sela did an amazing job. They made a lot of geordies (& toon army fans around the world) happy with the show.

You’re 100% correct, it was absolutely fantastic. And so are the fans 🖤🤍

Way more than I’ll ever have in the bank 😂

@@ourvan.ourway was just interested to see if anyone knew.

At a guess I’m gonna say £100k at least, if not way more.

@@ourvan.ourway A whole LOT more... the projectors cost about £25,000 per day to rent them (there were at least 4 projectors, at least 1 on the main building, plus 1 for each of the pontoons) then you've also got the pontoons, the spotlights, etc... easily at least £150,000+ per day The animation footage to be projected would have to have been filmed, produced, 3D generated... looking at about £200,000+ for that You then have the event, the security, police, river rescue, etc... that's probably around another 100k In all.... I reckon well over 500k and probably closer to £1million For Sela, who are probably the biggest events management company in the world, it would have all been done in-house and would be seen as a marketing excercise to them

It absolutely was. I nearly didn’t go either. But I’m so glad i did

It was absolutely unreal to watch it

I don’t believe so. It was hosted by Sela & last year they done a one-off mini drone light show. This year they had this show & it was unreal. There was thousands & thousands of people there

It was an amazing show

Hi there. We plan on doing a short to accompany this video where we’ll have photos of the items. Just since we didn’t include them in this one, we’ll make sure they go on the short once we make it. We’re just a little pushed for time at the minute, so we don’t quite know when that’ll be. Thanks

Hi @cliffwalker3117 was it someone from Halfords you spoke to? Or another person who owns the fridge? That’s interesting to hear, though 200w is a lot of power in my opinion. Especially since the fridges don’t use a lot of power generally to run.

Someone from customer service

Hi @cliffwalker3117 Though we’ve not relied exclusively on the battery yet, it does claim that the battery can last upto 8 hours on eco mode. Hopefully this helps. Thanks

I’ve not got any instructions how do you put it on eco mode

@@cliffwalker3117 press & hold the ⚙️ button for 3 seconds. When the screen flashes, press the + button to toggle between the eco or max mode. Once the screen stops flashing, it’s set into that mode.

That’s great thank you so much

I don’t suppose you have a link for the solar panel unit do you or the make and power they use I can’t see anything on the Halfords web site

Hi David. Thanks for taking the time to comment. We actually sped the drone footage up during 😂 It was about 5 minutes in total, so we tried to cut it down as we thought it’d be boring to watch. I need to get a lot more practice with the flying to get smooth footage. But hopefully one day we can be flying it like the pro’s

Hi there. I have to be 100% honest & say because we are UK based, I really don’t know. However it’s a small world nowadays in terms of international online shopping. Plus the fact that the majority of goods are all made in China anyway. So if the brand RidgeMonkey doesn’t exist in the states, I’m going to say there’s probably a good chance that there’ll be a very similar product in existence over there. Thanks for taking the time to comment 😀

You’re welcome. We hope you found the video interesting & hopefully you can put some of our ideas to use in your van if you have one. Thanks for taking the time to comment 😀

Hi Dolores. I hope the bonus item comes in useful for you too. We also have a video which tells you our top 5 vanlife essentials. Happy Travels!

You’re absolutely correct. When you make your own van, you make it to your own requirements & specifications. And these are our top 5 essentials. Do you have a van? We’d love to know what are your essential items are. Maybe you have something that you can’t live without that we’ve never even considered yet. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Robert

I love the list. Things I would add 1. refrigerator, 2. Shower. 3. Baking oven either but in or table top. 4. Love, kindness, respect. 5. God!!!!!!!

We did seriously consider dropping the ridge monkey off the list & putting our fridge onto the list. But for our little overnight trips away, we can get by without the fridge, so it’s not an “essential” for us. For trips longer than 1 day, I’d certainly put it on the list though. As for a shower, we simply don’t have room for one in our little van with the layout that we’ve chosen. But we do take advantage of baby wipes & also using a bath sponge & soapy water to keep ourselves clean & fresh. As for an oven. We do actually have one. It’s just not fitted in our van. Stay tuned for future videos to see if we change our mind & fit it or not 😉 If you’re not already a subscriber, we hope you’d consider pressing the subscribe button to see how we get on with the van in the future. We’d love to grow the channel as big as we can & reach as many people as possible

Thats a great tip. Its great that its a multi use item too so will take up less space. Hope you enjoyed the video.

You guys are inspiring in numerous ways, to many people. Including us. The RAC guy said it might be a dodgy MOT, but it was done at a Halfords MOT centre so I don’t think it is. It could be the case that the tester done a dodgy certificate, but it’d be hard to prove. It’s just awful that some people only see 💷 & don’t care if they put people’s lives at risk. I hope if karma is a thing, it comes back & bites their backsides. I hope you guys got the truck sorted ok It was a massive shock about my friend. Just totally out of the blue & really hit home that we aren’t necessarily here for a long time. And to enjoy the time that we do have on earth, because there’s no guarantee of tomorrow. Take care guys. We look forward to your next video & also still up for that coffee (or whatever) when you guys are next back in the UK. I was going to say home, but i keep forgetting home for you both is Portugal 😂 Robert

Hi David & thank you. We’re slowing eliminating things on the car, which will hopefully identify what the actual issue is soon enough. We think it’s either a fuel intake or air intake issue, but we don’t know for certain yet. We’ve changed a couple of sensors & done some other little tests so far, which has eliminated things like the fuel pump, filter, electrical fault etc.. The air sensor & air filter have been changed too, so we know it’s not those. We did however see that the air sensor we removed had a manufacturing date of 2022 (on a 2010 car), so that’s been changed not too long ago. That tells us the issue is a longstanding one that they’ve attempted to fix previously, but haven’t been able to

Unfortunately I’ve spent all my money on the corsa now