Hilarious Paddy's Day in BENIDORM | VANLIFE SPAIN

Hey everyone, how you doing? So we're doing something really crazy this weekend. We're off to Benidorm. We're doing Benners on Paddy's night. So I quite like St Patrick's Day anyway and this is supposed to be Manic down here. So we're going to give it a try but guess what? We ain't got no costumes. So we're going to see what we can get. I quite fancy a ginger beard. I've already started with my few with my old spikeys that come out but I ain't got a full-on beard yet. So I think I need a leprechaun-y style. So let's see what we can find in Benners. I think there's a shop called the Big Willie Shop. We're actually really excited aren't we? Well you know what? We're just going to run with it, whatever it is. We know what you're expecting. It's going to be crazy wild, loads of drinking people, all different types but you know it's a melting pot isn't it? Let's have a bit of a laugh and hopefully we'll have a right old laugh this weekend. Here we go. Here's Benny Dorm. Oh this is amazing. So we got quite a nice pitch in the end didn't we? Yeah. It's boiling hot. What's the degrees babes? It's like 25 isn't it? 25 to 26 degrees. 26 degrees in the van. It's roasting, we're going to have to get the fans out in a bit. So I'm just going to sort of tidy myself up a bit because we're going to head into Benny Dorm in a bit. We've had a couple of egg sandwiches to tide us over haven't we? A couple of egg banjos. But I keep saying to Gary should we get a mobility scooter because they've got some of them double. Well hear me out Gary. He's like, he's poo-pooing the idea. He keeps saying I'm not getting on a mobility scooter but they've got double ones. So that makes it better does it? It does because it means that we could both like have a drink. Twice the embarrassment as far as I'm concerned. There's no way I'm getting a mobility anything. I'll hire an electric scooter. Well I don't know if I want to go on one of them. I'll fall off it. But I know with a mobility scooter it'd be easy and I could just sit there. I can get my shop in. I don't have to worry about it. I'm not bothered what people think. Are you really dead against it? Can we price it? No way. We price electric scooters or something but a mobility scooter. Jesus Christ. I have some pride left you know. Oh God. It's been really entertaining telling him I want one of them all day. Right so we're getting into the swing of it. Look we're both in cowboy hats. This is what I quite like about places like Benidorm. Nobody gives a ---- what you wear do they though Gary? 20 minutes from the campsite and we're starting to get excited. This is Hotel President there. They've got the shamrocks on their sign and you can see that everything's gearing itself up for Paddy's It's a big baby kit. Look there's a nappy and a massive dummy but I'll tell you what I bet they sell out of them. I saw this Channel 4 program once about people that like to be babies. Do you remember that? So we're getting ready in the van and I just said to Gary good it looks like it's my actual beard. It's like the same colour as my hair. But this is what it's like in the van. We've had such a laugh this morning. I think my laugh box might be broken before we go out don't you? I think so. Oh god this is bonkers. So here's the finished product. We're ready for St Patrick's Day. I've got my beards on. Oh hello hello. I look like Conchita Burst. Loving the beard. So I've got like a skirt thing on. Gary's got he's got his braces and stuff on. So we spent a few quid in their big willies yesterday didn't we? Just to get all this. It's I don't know how long the beard's gonna last. I'm gonna have a right rash. Shaving rash by the end of the day because it's gonna be right itchy. But anyway we're gonna head into town in a second. We've stopped laughing this morning already have we? Right we've sort of like shaded all the van up because it's boiling hot and we're going in aren't we babe? We are. We're braving it. Brace yourselves it's Venice. Now as we've done a long walk and I was dancing last night I've hurt my knees really badly again. So this is why I honestly think I want one of these. There's the I see the double ones like that. I want one of them. Gary won't be seen dead on it but it's annoying. What about one like that? It looks like a fight. Oh it's really I'd happily get one. I am not bothered at all. I think they're really good Gary. First stop we're having a fry up because I'm starving. I've been drunk way too much last night. My knees are killing me so I Are you getting a fry up as well? Oh absolutely. Oh I am. I'm gonna get the biggest one they've got. Really good actually. You've got a small breakfast for four euros and a large breakfast for five. That's brilliant isn't it? So we'll see what it's like when it comes but you can get extras. Homemade chips three euros. That's not bad at all. Look at our feast. God Gary's yours. He looks meager next to mine. Do you want some of my chips? He can have some of them I reckon. This is only like midday as well so you can imagine what it's going to be like later. Oh what a laugh. Oh Stuart's here look. My beard keeps like slipping down you know. It's not like my real one which I would. But look at this sea of green. Crazy people here. It's brilliant. So some new sunglasses. I mean there's everything you're going to get here. How much are they here? These four euros. Are they four euros? Oh god they look really uncomfortable. They're those ones that stick in your nose. I'll try them on then. I'll give over. No they look ridiculous. God Gary. Hello honey. Take a picture you did it again. Show us. This is crazy down here. Look at this guy. Oh I love it. It's brilliant fun. Just stopped for our first drink haven't we. It's crazy out there. We picked quite a quiet little place and I'm getting a glass of wine. It's our first drink of the day. What time is it? It's just gone three o'clock. Oh god that's completely legal then isn't it. We've only had a cup of tea so far haven't we. Oh my knees are killing me. But wow we can just we've got a beautiful view. Sat in a really nice quiet restaurant. We'll leave everybody to it for now. We'll join them in a bit won't we. To show you it's not all crazy days. This is a beach bar just along the front. It's literally just along from some of the really highly populated bars. And look at our lovely beach view. It's really nice. Gary and I have decided that we're going to try and get a scooter. I'm still not allowed a mobility scooter. So it's a normal scooter. And we reckon it's only like 20 euros for the day or something don't we. Yeah 20 euros with a with a deposit obviously. But it should be only 20 euros for the day. Well I hope so because my knees are really sore. To see if we can get a scooter. And we've got ourself a little deal here. And this is our friend. What's your name? Hey this is my son. Hello guys how you doing. It's a nice family business. So they're actually got they charge for an hour or you can get it for a day. We're going to get it for a full day. Gary's doing all the paperwork. Thank god it's not me. And I've never used one of these. So I'm slightly nervous if I'm honest. But it'll be able to get us about a bit. Make sure you've got some sort of ID if you are going to come and rent one of these. I've just seen myself in this video. I'm progressively looking dreadful by the day. I'm starting to get a beard rash as well. So you've got to wear a helmet as well. Which is going to interfere with my wig. But then's the breaks. I've got to keep my head safe. I'm actually quite excited. It means we're going to be able to move around. The plan is to head down to Taposelli this evening. Because there's some fireworks later on. We're going to go and see a couple more bars. And then we're going to get a bit of tapas. Because we'll want to eat. Oh god it's officially horrible. I really hate it. He likes it and he's really good at it already. Which is annoying. Literally just left the shop. I'm shitting myself going down here. I don't like it at all. And it's hurting my knees even more. But are we going to go up to them other bars? Yes. Oh gosh it's crazy on here. We're getting a bit more used to it. But I tell you what it's not easy when you first get on it. My knees are shredded. Gary's like filming and everything. That's us isn't it. So we're opposite jumping jacks. But right over there you've got the scooter. And I said I'm really sorry. They've just rented it. And it's not easy to rent. It's not easy to ride I said to him. So the guy goes you should have rented me. I'm easy to ride. Gary said that's my line. People are just up for a crack after though. It is the proper crack here. The tiger air for sure. There's the beetle guy pub again. It's brilliant. Look at this. It's really pumping around here. That's a look at right stakes. It's brilliant. You can be whatever you want to be. I reckon you could dress up like this on a regular day. No one would care. As you do. Gary's just been trying to go on the thing and get you a little bit of filming. So if you see yourself on this don't forget to like and comment. And tell us that you've seen yourself. These people are all in Planet Benidorm. Oh some really fun looking girls there. Hi girls. Scooted up to the old town. And it's still buzzing here. But there's less green I would say. There's a lot more people that are just out for their Sunday evening. There's Pinocchios there. We think that's Tapasali down there. But we're a bit confused. We're not sure. It's my wine bottle. That's my kind of size of wine bottle Gary. Look lovely little tapas bars hidden down the streets. This is really nice actually. And it's really weird because this is St. Patrick's Day but you won't be able to tell. There's just a couple of egypts like ourselves in the green. A little sweet shop. I haven't seen none of them bananas for years. Well they used to be smaller than that didn't they? Look like cones and stuff. All sorts of lollies and sweets. Oh it's really great here isn't it Bab? We're trying to find Tapasali but I don't know if we can find it. We're at Dove Park. Can you guess why it's called Dove Park? Look at them. Oh they're gorgeous. They're everywhere. It's a little fountain. It's just by the coast as well look. There's a couple of little shops selling a few little bits and pieces. Oh look they took flight. This guy scared I tell you what you think Benidorm's all just one of a piece but it's not. It's really not. I've officially never looked so bad in my life. Honestly I've got my beard hanging down. This is like two two things making me look about 50 million thousand stone. I don't really care to be honest but I do feel really like I'm getting a beard rash. It's so itchy. Look at that. It's absolutely stunning. You've got the harbour there. We're up in the old town now. Some housing here. Just like little market bits and pieces and of course your little doves. He can try and touch a dove or he reckons if you hold your hand out even if you haven't got any food they'll come to you. I don't know if that's true. Look at him. Oh I don't know. Hello. The birds are flocking him. He needs a catch though. Let's see if they'll come to him. No way. They are. Oh excuse him. Oh maybe. They're not they're not daft though. Oh look at that. They have planted on him. Looks like a Disney. Oh look at you. Look at you. You bird charmer. We found it. So it's Calle de Santa. What did you say it was? Calle de Santa Domingo. Calle de Santa Domingo. So you've got to go through the old town. There's loads of different tapas bars and restaurants along here. We're actually going to grab ourselves something to eat. We finally found somewhere to sit. I'm absolutely neck to you Gary. Oh here we are. We're at a tapas place. Now looking at the menu it's quite dear actually down Tapas Alley isn't it? Yeah you're paying for the location. You're definitely paying for the location. You're looking at patatas bravas 5.80. Let me show you all different sort of prices. Some calamari and everything. It's got you know pepper salad 8.75. Now they've got tapas and rations. A ration is a portion. Tapas and portions. So one of my favorites is croquetas and they say they've got some homemade ones. So I think we're going to get some of them. Share a couple of croquetas and a bit of Russian salad I think. This is our tapas. I've got to be honest it's really mediocre. They're not the best potato bravas I've ever had. Croquetas look really nice though and there's well the Russian salad. Me and Gary all over. We'd be like oh I don't really like that. I don't really like that. But look at the plates. They're completely empty. The croquetas were excellent weren't they? They were really nice. The patatas bravas no way and the Russian salad was lukewarm which was a really weird sort of like. It should be cold. It should be cold. I'm afraid it's cold. But they've just put the patio heaters on now so and it's a really nice location to be honest. There's the scooters from hell that are killing me knees. I think I'm ready to go back aren't you? We're knackered we are and we can't see a sign of any parade. It's all the way down there but to be honest you're going to find good tapas all over. I probably wouldn't come here again would you to Tapas Alley? I would probably try and find a backstreet one. But look at some of these. They're quite incredible. Really very nice. The street's really busy as in the old town and we heart Benidorm. We actually quite love Benidorm don't we? We do. But it's broken us. We're gonna have to leave. We couldn't stay more than one more night could we? Not a chance. And there's a cow just here in the window. Brilliant. Massive. It's just like all sorts of like knickknacks and bits and pieces. Nice hats and stuff. Oh little crocs. I don't know if they're real ones or fake crocs. How much are these ones then? Oh should probably come out to you all. I've been wearing crocs on this life. I don't know. I was never going to do it but you get to a certain age and your arches go and then things are, well they're comfortable aren't they? I'm sorry to break it to you all. You probably didn't know I was a croc wearer but there you have it. Everywhere's super crazy. This is right next to the Hotel Madeira Centre and you've got just a couple of like tapas bars. Really beautiful lights around here. It's quite nice actually. It definitely feels a little bit easier to go on the old scooter doesn't it? Oh god. It's a nightmare up there. So it's 20 to 8 in the evening. We're absolutely shredded aren't we? We are a bit knackered. Oh my god I don't know how people are doing it. We've been walking for most of the day and the last hour or so we've had these scooters. We've had them for longer than that though. Have we? Yeah we've had them. Two hours. Oh god that two hours has seemed like ages. Yeah it does. Right we're toying with the idea. What's the name of the place? The West End Show Bar. Sounds amazing but I'm not sure it's going to be like the West End. We don't know if we want it or not. Part of me wants to go and have a little bit more party and the other half's like go to bed you fool. Like you're too old for this crap. So the West End Show Bar. Oh what a shame. It's full so you can't go in because obviously they've got a capacity but what you've got to remember guys try and book if you're going to come here. Looks brilliant. They're on Sundays which is fun day so they've got all different types of people. In fact this must be Barbie. Barbie Kruger. How fabulous does Barbie look? We don't get to see the action but we do get to see where it is. You've got to come up the top of this hill and thank god we've got the scooters. Join us next time for a good look around Camping Villasol before we head on down the coast and continue our fantastic European journey. Don't forget to like, comment and even subscribe if you enjoyed this. Thanks for watching. See you soon. Love you loads. Take care. Bye.