Van Life Scotland - Exploring the Scottish Highlands!

This internet video is sponsored by Squarespace. Scotland, a land where the lads and the lassies wear skirts and the haggis run wild. A place where the wains drink whisky straight out of the womb. And if you don't believe in the Loch Ness Monster, then yer booms out the windy. It may always push down. But if you're hard as f**k, then it shouldn't dinnae bother you. Aye pal. Aye Scotland pal, brilliant. What is happening guys, we are Craig and Amy and you are watching Kingin' It. And this week we're going to be showing you some hot spots in Aviemore in Scotland and also showing you what it's like to live full-time in a van. For the last two months we have been exploring all over the shop and we've had some incredible experiences. Pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones. Consuming all the Scottish alcohol and food we can sniff out. And doing it all in our big green and cream first cold custard. For the past two weeks we've been parked on a mountain with some stunning views. And every now and again we'll be joined by some reindeer pals. Turns out they don't like carrots. The day usually starts the same. The alarm goes off really early and we hit the snooze. We tend to avoid waking up because we know what we're about to face. We look like we've set up this van to look this disgusting. But this is actually our reality most days. It's bloody freezing so the heating goes on as well as the slippers and we work together to clean the place up. We're 90% smelly tow rags. But it's incredible how when you live in a small space it gets really messy really quickly. We also fixed Judy Garland and stuck her back on the wall. We've picked a day to film because we've ended up having to stay on a campsite. For a number of reasons. We were sleeping on a mountain throughout a week. So custard wasn't moving at all. And there's been no sunshine so our batteries just haven't charged. They're on like 16%. So we've come to the campsite to plug everything in, charge everything up. And we left it charging overnight. We've got like a battery charger in our controller and it's crap. So after being plugged in all night we're still on 16%. Oh fantastic. So that's cool. We also need to do some laundry whilst we're here. Laundry. Some laundry. We hate having to stop at campsites because we spent so much money on our battery set up. But when you're not driving and there's no sunlight you don't get a chance to charge up. So we'll have to go once in a while to edit the vlogs, do some laundry and do all the other chores that go along with living in a van. I left that under there last night and when you turn the car off the suspension lowers. So it's stuck. The next jobs are all the minging ones. Luckily Amy loves emptying the toilet so that's her job. I've done it for the past like five times in a row. I got around my leg the other day. It's dodgy the toilet because you press the button to let it all out. And then you're giving it all out and then it stops. And then you go to lift it up and a little plop comes out on the side. I'm like no! Probably one of yours though isn't it? We drop off our rubbish and our cycling. We're good like that. Empty our waste water. And then Grandma Bannister empties the toilet. I don't know why I've been given this task. I've kind of taken it as though this is the Amy task. I can barely lift it. He's like are you just gonna run and do the laundry? Or um the usual one is I've got to do the water. Do you know what doing the water entails? Putting on the hose, putting the hose into the water tank and leaving it. Next job is to fill up the water. We've got 210 litres but we tend to go through it in about a week. If we're showering maybe twice a week each. Too bad. I've got no PPE. I'm just gonna go for it. It probably is mainly mine anyway. We've been having a lot of curries though. Do you know what I mean? Don't look. Nobody look. Cover me your eyes. Just taking a breather. Nice. Oh doing the water are you? He's doing the water. Yeah yeah we did it all ourselves. Thanks very much. It needs a bit of a wash but yeah. Next on the list is washing. Don't you hate it when you go there and someone else has taken up two washer machines? Selfish. Don't you love? I think so yeah it's a lot easier to carry this time around. Uh do you want to do the flush? Just let this fill up a little bit. Yeah. Cool cool. Should I wash my hands before breakfast or do you want spicy breakfast? Spicy. I'm saying this on behalf of all van lifers out there. There's no better feeling than when your toilet's empty, your grey tank's empty, your and your water's full. In a drive. It is drive. What's next? Do you see on my shoulder that weight? You can't see it can you? Because I haven't got any weight on my shoulders. It's gone mate. It's gone. Breakfast brother boys. What we gonna have? After we've worked hard we reward ourselves with breakfast. Which nine times out of ten is a bagel and coffee. Becky boy. Stop calling me that. What are you gonna do if someone touches your pants? Once we've eaten we tend to do some emails, check you're all getting your clothing orders and see if we've got any new million pound contract offers. Sometimes we sit down and do administration stuff like getting back to your emails and finding out where your items of clothing have gone missing. Administration and stuff. He tries to be posh. You said it. Amy's like Craig how do I use paint on Microsoft Office? Once all that's done we're free to go off and explore. Today's a great day. We popped to Inverness to pick up some bits. Amy went nuts in ASOS. Our mate Josh, shout out to Josh Mancey. He's gone and fixed the drone hasn't he? What a legend. Our main man. Honestly we can't thank him enough. Not only that he sent us some vegan sweets. What a true champion. Thank you my friend. You are a legend. Took it on a little test flight. Flies like a dream. For now anyway. Thanks Josh. Love you mate. Go on then ASOS horse you got baggy trousers and a jumper. They're not baggy trousers they're like suit trousers. Got an interview with you love. I'm not sure about it. Who's your interview with love? They got a matching suit jacket but it was 50 quid. I was like oh wow I can't really get that right now. Got this jumper. Going to St Tropez are you? In an extra large. So I thought that was quite cute. And hat update. Seamans hats or something. Oh it's cosy. What are we saying? Oh my god. No? That was cool. Yeah. Money joking love. The outfit. Outfit of the day. Take a picture. We've driven back to Abbeymore which is where we've been for about two weeks now. And we were going to go up to the mountain where we've been sleeping. So we've pulled over to have a look at that lock because it looks insane. Look at this. What are we doing this morning then fella? Today we're going to see the hairy coos. So we saw a few wild ones but they didn't really want to get that close to me. So we've booked in now to go and see them up close and personal. So if I share my giant skills I think they'll give me a snog with tongues. I'm so honestly I'm so excited. I think I've changed. Dogs will always be my favourite animal but I think the Highland Coo is they're just so cool to look at aren't they? I can't wait. The farmer's come in now we're going to follow him down the track. And then it's party time isn't it? Out of 1 to 15 Craig how excited are you? 10. 10 what? Oh can I take a different plus one please not each? 30 size on that. He's massive. It looks like his bum actually looks like little peach. Oh my goodness they're coming babe. They're ready for us. They're like hiya. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness look at you. He's not interested in us now. Look at this. Look how big his little feet are. He's licking his neck. You're having the best day ever right? Go 100 meters down that way just leg it. None of the farmers can stop me I'm going in. They're just amazing. So cool. It's been raining so they're like super like muddy and super wet. And they've just got all these mats on them and all their emo hair. They all need a makeover don't they? They're just incredible. Go on Steve what's the grub like? Any good? Is it worth the walk? Come on Ad let's be having you. He's gonna make us wait today. So who called him Adam then? Whoa look at the size of this guy. Sorry mate don't don't look at me like that. You sound beautiful. It's like you in the morning aim. If he ran at me now did that fencing stop him is it? Yeah he'll weigh about eight and a half kilograms. And that fence, I don't want to lie to you but that fence wouldn't hold him if he wanted to. No it wouldn't. Oh goodness. Bye Adam, love. So um Harry was just saying how um how much does he weigh? 800 kilos. 800 kilos and he loves to sing and he does actually like a stroke. So um but he was like he was he locked eyes with me and I was like I'm just gonna stand back there because he's a big boy. They said they used the the ring in his nose for control so I was like that's a great idea. Excuse me Miss Adam, which way to town? Thank you very much. Did you get him yeah? Yeah. I just want to take a minute to say a big thanks to this week's sponsor Squarespace. Um what is Squarespace? Squarespace is a website builder that gives you all the tools you need to make the perfect website like cars for example. It's fun and neat. We need our website because it makes us look more professional. Squarespace allows us to build a mailing list which means we can send out wonderful newsletters to gorgeous people like you. Oh my god I just got the new Kinginit newsletter. It's amazing. 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This is good for the soul food you know. So what are you actually making? So it's like um it's like a gravy mince. I think gravy mince. Have it with rice. I have got teeth you know. It's gruel o'clock. I didn't know I was on death row. Right give me that camera. Stop it. I can tell you get one good meal a week. Just try that mince right and tell me how good that is. What are the ingredients in this then? I'm not telling you just just pop it in and tell me how tasty it is. There's flavours from all kinds of the world there. Cowpat and onions is it? No. Not bad babe not bad. Stop trying to think of something sarcastic to say and give me a real opinion. Nice yeah. Nice hearty autumn food isn't it. So having some nice romantic gruel. Oh my god best thing best thing I've ever tasted that. What are you putting there? Lush! Jesus Christ. We're sitting down to watch the bridge on channel four which is a great show about people trying to build a bridge. This is what I've got to deal with every day. Always keep hydrated. You're an animal. Morning babes. There's no time to talk Craig. We need to make coffee. It's going to be about eight minutes. We need to go go go. So today we're going to rent a boat for Loch Morlick. Oh lush that's not romantic of you. Oh no it wasn't you. It wasn't your bloody idea was it. Honestly you're going to get a little clip in a minute. Not only that but GoPro's setting up the new Hero 9 the other day. Yes lads. So we're going to test this out as well. Cheers lads. We'll let you know how it is. It's been raining for about four days but today is an absolute belter. Come on we're late. We were supposed to take a picnic Craig. How's it going? The incredible thing about this lock is it's a sand beach. Craig run we're so late. We've just met followers. I love it when people stop and they're like custard. I'm like wicked. Everyone says they watch our videos. It's so heartwarming isn't it. Yeah I love it. Oh you don't see behind the scenes do you? That looks like a storm to me. Don't say it Doug because I told you we should go earlier. So we've come to the beach for a day out. Fingers crossed the weather stays for us. It's not looking good. The guy was like don't go too far we don't want to have to send a rescue boat. I'm like best get them on speed dial just in case. All right which one this one? How do we get it in? Gladiators ready. Three, two, one. Here we go. Middle one free. Oh ---- it's splashing. Not quite what we expected. Batten down the hatches Craig. There's a storm coming. It's just a sun shower we'll be fine. Look at the rainbow. What a beauty. Never as romantic as it seems. The boat's flooded with water and uh we just go around in circles don't we? Wow we really do don't stop. Here she goes. After all the hard work the sun's come out. The rain's stopped and we're shattered and ready for bed. But we're going to keep going down the river. Babes you got this. I believe in you. We've gone the wrong way. We have haven't we? Where the f*** is the river? That's a shame. You'd never think we're in Scotland now would you? Bloody gorgeous. Don't not try and gain you, I'm telling you. Clank Scotland. Look at the scenes. Oh you know what? I think they might be coming to get us. Come on baby. You've got a life jacket on. Oh dear. No I don't have my life jacket on. It got wet. No he's probably just checking in. You know we got 10 minutes it's fine. Hiya. Just a reminder the reef flows in like 10 minutes. Yep yeah we're heading back. Yeah could you also pop on your jacket as well? Yeah I took it off for a photo and it's got soaking now. Do I have to? Oh no righto. We just spent 40 quid on this two hours right? So we've got 12 minutes lads. We ain't coming in until our 12 minutes is up okay? 11 and a half minutes later we arrived back at the beach and we hung around for sunset. What have you got there Ben? We're back on the mountain after a beautiful sunset at the lake. My mum sent me some post and I had a little we had a little drawing for my niece Phoebe. So I told her I'm going to put it on the fridge. So she's drawn us and she's drawn Custard the bus. Right. And it says you are pro YouTubers. Yeah. Miss you. And she's done little crowns on them and everything. Yeah we've never had a fridge to put anything on. So Phoebes this one's for you. Miss you and you Mariela and Amelia. Just miss you all. Perfect. Every time we go to get a glass of milk now people think of you Phoebes. So that is it for this week's video. Captain Bansi's got a Thai red curry on and we're just chilling in Custard. Cooking again. Honestly this is slave labour but I don't even get paid for it. So I hope you guys have enjoyed this week's video. Have you had a good time? I've had a wicked time honestly. The Cairngorms National Park should be on your list like right at the top. Because it's got the reindeers and the cows and like anything that's got animals it's got a place in my heart. It's been wonderful. So where are we going next week Craig? No idea. No? All right I'll just surprise you the whole way along. How about that? Sounds good. It's going to be a belter though lads so you're not going to want to miss it. So if you're brand new thanks so much for tuning in. Hope you press subscribe and we'll see you next Sunday. And remember guys to always buy our merchandise. Rule your own world. One, two, three. Bye.