Winter Van Life SPAIN | Amazing Free Park Ups on the Murcia Coast

Hey hey hey we're back on the road again aren't we Gary? We've got a lovely little road trip for you coming up. We're heading off to the Mercia coastline and we're off for just a few days aren't we because we're testing the van but typical us. We had a right mare this week didn't we Gary? Oh grab a stiff one and listen to this. So go on Gary what happened? So I took the van out the other day to fill it up with gas and diesel. I noticed a strange noise coming from the engine or rather the exhaust to be specific. So when I got back I had a look and actually the exhaust had sheared and it sheared on this piece here which is the first piece of the exhaust after the manifold. So I took it off and now I don't have a welder so I couldn't do the repairing although Christmas is coming up for staying. So anyway I took it to a local agricultural mechanic who did a brilliant job on this so I'm now going to lubricate it all up and slip it back in and I might fix the exhaust afterwards. So nice one Gary he sorted that out didn't you? No problem but I'd just like to make something clear. I can wait till Christmas to get a welder. I was the one saying to him do you want to get a welder? He doesn't have to act like Tiny Tim. He has to wait till Christmas to get a tool. But now we can wait till Christmas for that tool. I was saying to him does he want to do it himself but you didn't want to try it yourself did you? I didn't because I've not got the experience and I don't want to be my first first try on something that's quite important. Yeah exactly so anyway you found a great guy locally and you're in the end and that's great we're happy about that because nothing worse there's always something. So if you're new to our channel hello how you doing? Now we actually live in Spain so you know we're actually setting off from our house and we're heading off down to coastline for a little but we travel in a Swift particularly don't we honey? We do and it's a right hand drive so it is a UK version but we've now got it on Spanish plates. That took a little while to do and if you are interested in doing that there is look in the back catalogue there's loads of stuff but we talk about it. Okay plan tonight is we're heading down towards Mazaron aren't we? Yeah we've seen a place on search for sites and if you're new to motor homing or you travel regularly we use search for sites, park for night, iOverlander whatever don't we? We use lots of different apps and they're really good for finding free parking but we always have a little read of what people are. That gives you an indication of like what to expect. There was one that we really fancied wasn't there? Yeah right by the coast. Right by the coast and if it passed Cartagena but the only thing is somebody said they wouldn't go there if it had been raining because it's it would be really muddy. Yeah. Well lo and behold we've had a load of rain it's been quite biblical hasn't it? Especially there. Yeah especially there so we thought right sack that one but we have found a spot and we'll go and check that out see if we can get there. I do think it's a coast one mate it looks like it's overlooking. Okay we're going to jump on the AP7 and the P stands for paid so it's a toll road and now the A7 runs literally all the way down sort of beyond Gibraltar doesn't it all the way down to Barcelona. It's a fantastic road and it's a free road but this one will take us straight up towards Mazaron. I'm not sure how much it will cost but it's only usually a couple of euros we'll see. All you've got to do is take a little ticket. One thing we have noticed about coming on the AP roads is they're ever so quiet compared to the normal ones. What's that noise? Quite weird noise on the old fan. It stops now isn't it? Why does it do that? It's the fan belt behind us running. Does it? Is it on then? Yeah I don't mean slipped on. The only thing always working on a motorhome is you. It's so true isn't it? Brilliant we're just going to pull off towards Mazaron now and head down towards the coast. We're heading to a place called Isla Plana. Oh that's good it's got someone actually working in the counter. Okay so that cost us £3.75 which I don't think is too bad. It's a nice quiet little run wasn't it? Yeah about 30-35 kilometres. Yeah good old tractors on the go, good old farmland around here. That's Savenda, something's for sale there. Oh look at these gorgeous rocks, look at that. That is stunning isn't it? Look at that, wow. Looks almost like you could be in America doesn't it? We need to stop at a supermarket if we get an opportunity honey. I think we go right past a Mercadona. Here we go, Mazaron. It's pretty built up actually isn't it? Oh Gary look what I've spotted, a Mercadona. Nice one. Okay brilliant we're just going to pop into the Mercadona, get a couple a little bit. I just need some bread and stuff. A few motorhomes here already. In fact we went to one Mercadona the other day didn't we and it actually had motorhome bays. Yeah it was really good wasn't it? Yeah they had a motorhome picture on them. I mean this one hasn't got it but the other one did. Here we go. Lovely clean Mercadona, this is really nice. I might do a Mercadona video soon. Put in the comments if you want me to do a Mercadona video. Gary proper hates it if we do a video. He's like always really embarrassed, I'm like never bothered at all. So let's just pick out a couple of things while I'm here. So I want three of those a kilo is £3.10. Is that £3.10 for that? No £1.94 for three peppers, that's all right. One euro is £1.94, that's all right. Good little salad selection, they've got like 86 cents for one of those salads. I quite like this one, this is nice, £1.65 for two of these and it lasts for ages but these are nice Gary, £1.05. I'm going to get one of them, they're quite sweet aren't they? Yeah. Oh it's pretty good value in here, love Mercadona. I mean look how clean it is, it's spotless. I'll tell you what they do do in Mercadona, they do a really great ready cooked section. All the food is so tasty, I'll show you. So like these are like ready-made croquettes, they're £4.20, maybe you can get them cheaper in the frozen aisle but they're really really good. Look at that and that tortilla there is incredible. It's eight euros for the whole thing but honestly wow, it's gorgeous. They've got like pasta bolognese and they've even got like a paella up the back there. Look £4.50 for a portion of it and the potatoes, these ones here, oh they're magic. They do like these for £4.75. It's really tasty isn't it Gary? Yeah I love this shop actually. Right I think we've pretty much got what we need. Oh that's not bad, 20 euros for this lot. We only needed a bit of bread and Gary fancied a few crisps and some snacks and stuff but yeah and I just got some makeup removers. They're only £1.50, bit of foil and that sort of stuff but really cheap. We had to buy a bag even though we've got five million of these bags for lives. We had to buy one in there didn't we Gary because we forgot to bring any. We are wondering what we've forgotten to bring but anyway. So to wave or not to wave, that is the big question. Oh is that Nevs chatting? Yeah just wave to someone, they give me a massive stiff ignoring. We don't do it every time to be honest but sometimes I wave like we've only just got in the van after a little while so we're all like everyone we're going past they all sort of like did this. Maybe it's because they know who we are. They saw you Gary. Wondering if a lot of these roads are new because the sat-nav keeps trying to send us everywhere doesn't it? Well it's actually google maps so I'm not sure whether there's sort of a roadworks or something. It doesn't look like there is. You're going straight over this. It's another Mercadona. Wow that's gorgeous that is. Yeah well we're going to come and explore Masaron aren't we in Porto Masaron after we've been to Cartagena. Wow that is stunning. Look they've got a British supermarket there as well Gary, the food company. Yeah. Oh this is looking lovely. It's a bit of a rocky beach down here but it's beautiful isn't it Gary? It is. Look at that boardwalk it's just so nice to walk down here. Yeah it's lovely. This is lovely. We're just going to pull over I think get a nice photograph. Look it's so nice here. A couple of motorhomes parked along here. It's free parking here. Now we have parked along here before haven't we love? We have. In this one. I think we might have done this one or that one there. The only thing I would say is this road is noisy. It was very noisy at night wasn't it? It was. There's a camping ground if I'm right. There's a campsite this side isn't there? Yeah. We're going to come back and explore this area but we might park where we just took a photo. Looks lovely. There you go there's a campsite there. It looks like it's got sort of chalets or something. So we're heading to a place called Rambla del Canar. So we've set it to the area that we need to take a right down towards the coast and a rambler is effectively the area that the water would go into during a flood time isn't it? Yes. So I'm hoping it's not really muddy or anything down here Gary. So there is a campsite here as well somewhere up there. Oh that looks, gosh that looks crowded. Hopefully it's not a muddy road though Gary. So it takes you down to the beach here and we've read there's a car park. Oh look there's a motorhome down there. Right okay so the road down to it very very bumpy and it looks like there's a load of glass down there. Somebody's thrown a load of crap there aren't they? What's wrong with people? Honestly why do people have to do that? Look at the state of that. Is there anything worth nicking Gary? A joking aside look at the state of the glass there. That'd do your tyres in wouldn't it? I reckon that's the glass table top that came with that table. Oh really? Yeah. Oh Gary could you look where you're going because there's a right old drop off there and don't be looking at that because oh my god right this is potentially not for the faint-hearted. I reckon that if this was really rainy would this be dodgy do you think or is it a bit more gravel? I think it's a lot of gravel there's no mud here really but too much rain and you wouldn't try it. Oh there's a there's a little wagon down there. I wonder what that's all about? It's got a load of graffiti on it. Looks very abandoned but look there's people down there. Oh gosh this looks magic actually. It's like what's going on here? It's like Stonehenge or something. Is that trees? Yeah. Oh my eyesight's getting worse isn't it? They're trees but there is two like monoliths in the middle there way over there. It's a good old rocky road down here. Look you'll see there's big dips in here. You do have to go slow. There's a couple of wagons down here, three so far. Right here's the view from the front. That's lovely isn't it? We've decided to come by the side here. We don't seem to be blocking anyone. These guys are here they look like they're here for the long run because they've got their car and their trailer and everything. Wow look Gary there's a lovely walk along here. Oh yes there is. Well we're over the moon aren't we love? This is great. There's a bit of graffiti behind us. I thought it said bitch at first. I was a bit like oh they saw me coming. Gary says it says butch. They saw me coming. He said it about 10 hours after I'd said that little gag though. Anyway I've got changed. Got my Mario shorts on because it's so boiling in it. Would you reckon it is? It's got to be 22 23. It's lovely. We're going to go and take a lovely stroll now along the coast. Look you can walk down the steps there and go down to the beach. Hopefully it's not too windy and you can hear me. No dogs allowed on this beach though as you can see. Oh gosh we might be able to hear the waves tonight love. I hope so. That's magic isn't it? There we are we just parked there look. There's not much there's not much around here really is there? It's beautiful it's so peaceful. I reckon you could walk to some restaurants I think it said as well. Yeah. Although we're eating in the van tonight. There's a lovely row of trees here but look you can see where the the salts kind of eroded the front of them. There's a lady with a dog down there so you might be allowed dogs on this beach it's just a little stroll along. My goodness there's these massive beetles here. Honestly there's quite a few of them look crossing the road. I reckon if the van breaks down Gary we could get on one of them. They're enormous aren't they? Oh god they're everywhere. What are they? Anyone know what this is? Oh it's coming towards your shoe Gary. Let's see if we can do sort of like so you can see how big it is. He's got size 11s on hasn't he? Yeah. He seems to be walking like he's got high heels on. It goes on quite a bit this walkway it's lovely. Just down here look there's a date palm it's absolutely chocker with dates they're really heavy and you can tell when dates are ready because we've actually got date palms in our garden so you see those ones are really big Gary. They're not far off being ripe actually and once they're ripe you kind of got to dry them in the sun anyway but yeah that's got a lot of dates on it and that's just completely natural just by the sea I bet they're beautiful. So the pathway goes on there's some steps down and there's a bike path along here but it's quite muddy. We didn't bring the right shoes at all did we? You know what lesson learned always bring like your old shoes so it doesn't matter if you're getting really muddy We've come down to the beach and we've seen an aloe yucca plant up here this looks like some wasteland and it's got some ripe fruits you're never going up there are you? You're going up there Gary don't go up there there could be a snake in there Bab don't bother he'll do anything for a fruit No oh I don't know if you can walk to it it looks dangerous oh god I wouldn't be doing it so I was just reading on my I've got a plant thing that sort of tells you what plants are it has to be the purple ones the ones that look like eggplants love right at the front oh gosh be careful apparently it's very sweet tastes like molasses oh careful spiky I would twist them fruit always likes it if you twist it off yeah that looks right there's enough pop it in your pockets How nice is this? He made it down but by the skin of his teeth they're not in great condition but they're not are they oh they're a bit hard actually I think we've missed our slot with them I think so I don't think you can open them I would expect them to be soft when they're oh I'm not eating that it's dry as hell smell it what does it smell like oh it smells like blackcurrant does it that's what it said on the plant thing I mean I've just sniffed it I don't know if it does smell like blackcurrant but but I definitely wouldn't eat that that looks because the stems and everything are actually like poisonous or they have zirconians in or something look at that isn't that lovely oh oh look there's a ship out there love navy navy vessel oh is that a navy vessel is it yeah there's like a walkway that goes up here I reckon that'll take you to the town has that washed up there's a buoy that's washed up yeah has it yeah oh crikey look at that old loaded guff there there's no messages in those bottles oh they've been read ain't they I always used to think that was really magic didn't you a message in a bottle like it was really interesting always fancied getting one of them I think this is why we keep the motorhome and just love the motorhome isn't it yeah it is you know you can just come down to the beach like this and it's just it's beautiful isn't it yeah we're really looking forward to tomorrow we're going to head off to Cartagena tomorrow for the day and there's just such a lot of naval history and just so much to see I think there isn't there yeah loads lots of museums as well that we won't go into all of them but yeah we'll do a little bit of research tonight see what we really fancy seeing but uh yeah it's magic here and it's free this is a free park up it's lovely but obviously if you come down it goes without saying clear your own rubbish away that's why they get moved on they move people on because they just leave bags of rubbish and there is a lot of facilities in Spain you know you can get rid of your rubbish really easily can't you yeah supermarkets or garages or anything you don't need to like leave a mess and most campsites will let you empty your black you know and fill your water for a few euro won't they so there's another boy here and I just think like wouldn't that be a great thing to take for the garden to do like a sculpture should we take it oh well no because that means I've got to carry it all the way to the van how heavy is it I don't think it's that heavy but it's not light it looks really light that Gary where would we keep it well in the garden I'll make a sculpture out of it in the van um what about on the like where the ladder is oh you want the bike back yeah well we could well I think you should carry it back I think it would be nice I think you can make something really good with it you mean you think I could make something really good with it well no because you could I'll tell you what you could do with it a giant minion for the garden that is a really good idea you can make a giant minion for the garden yeah what do you think put an eye in there there you go see you're all over it should we pick it up no well because it might belong out there it doesn't belong out there it doesn't even matter how I mean it's definitely flotsam and jetsam so what does that mean that means floating in from the sea and landing on the beach I don't think it lives here it's just it's quite big to cart around we need two of those handles and I can pretend it's one of those well I was thinking that's what they were at first so are we not going to take it I was only teasing you anyway but I do think it would make a good minion for the garden now if he comes out and gets it it's not because I made him I've just said it's fine we don't need a minion in the garden but it would be quite funny to have a giant minion in the garden we saw a place like that in America didn't we someone had loads of like they had loads of like lego and stuff in their garden it was brilliant wasn't it yeah a lot of time now yeah it was amazing wow look at that that fan palm's grown right on the beach like that it's wild as well didn't it Gary I think we're going to head back to the van in a minute pop some dinner on that was a beautiful walk look there's my minion in the distance we're back in the van after a two-hour walk which was just brilliant wasn't it love and look at that sunset it's just gorgeous I've just put a bit of a chili con carne on and we met a lovely couple didn't we when we were out walking yeah yeah hi to those guys if you're watching um but they had a couple of gorgeous dogs so we had a pet of a dog so what I've done for dinner is just a chili con carne but I had some of that ready cooked rice you know the sort of rice that it's already made and I thought oh gosh how am I going to warm it up I haven't got a microwave or nothing so I've shoved it in with the chili con carne it's all it's a bit of a one pot but it actually smells really good and we think it's going to taste all right don't we Gary yes it's going to be delicious yeah oh bless him but we're just have a glass of water I think tonight we're not going to bother drinking today or anything no I don't want to drink every single night that we go away plus we're heading off to uh Cartagena nice and early tomorrow we're really looking forward to that and there's a little gentle breeze coming in the van so we're happy with that we've got our lights on so it feels all sort of I don't know it feels all like romantic and festive doesn't it but this is beautiful I mean what a what a lovely stop isn't it gorgeous isn't it we'll see how we uh sleep tonight but anyway bite to eat lovely sea view it's lovely and quiet here we were kind of thinking should we have stayed at that place a bit like down the road you know where the chiringuita was where we took a picture but this is really nice I'm glad we didn't I'm glad we pushed on a little bit yeah this is perfect anyway we've got a little about half an hour into Cartagena tomorrow um and then we're just going to go to a car park that we've seen online again on search for sites thank you search for sites marvellous um but there was a couple of people that said on there that about people wanting to get two euros off you or a couple of euros yeah be careful of the um of the touts who pretend to work there but they don't yeah so I don't know if we're going to get any of that we've got a Spanish plated van so maybe maybe they'll give us a wide berth in case you know they think that we're Spanish um so you're going to have to get your Spanish on tomorrow what does that mean right we right hook oh oh right okay well we don't want any violence Gary could calm down well for two euros we're not paying two years for anywhere that's worth violence yeah well two euros I'm joking I think they know Gary I think I think they know that a man who's considering making a minion out of a boy um we did consider that but we didn't want to do anything illegal either so we didn't know if we took the boy but then I started worrying that it would float back out to sea and someone think they could swim out to it and it's not chained up so were we doing the world a favor by taking the boy I don't know anyway we didn't steal it so you know no little no giant minion for us today not today anyway I think that's about it for tonight now do you I think so yeah we're just gonna have a bite to eat sit and chill and uh we'll probably pick this up in the morning unless something happens which I really hope it doesn't because if it does means it's something bad good night everyone morning well results are in at the garage oh we had a wonderful night's sleep last night no sound at all well apart from the lapping of the waves which is just great to go to sleep to but all in all an absolutely fantastic location that we got here yeah it was a right gem of a location again if you do come here please clean up after yourself leave it as you found it we're heading off now and uh we're going off to Cartagena so if you don't want to miss us in Cartagena why don't you hit that subscribe if you're not already with us and maybe give us a like and I think there's a new thing where you can hype us up so if you've enjoyed this video give us a hype Gary give us a high but anyway until next time guys thanks very much for watching it's great to see you all love you loads take care