I Wasn't Planning This… But I'm Back on the Road! Solo Van Life UK 🚐

Well, here we go again. I've unexpectedly found myself with a little bit of time on my hands, so I've decided to make the most of it and head off on another little road trip. I'm off to explore somewhere new for a little while. I'm looking forward to seeing where this little adventure takes me. Surprise! I'm heading off for a road trip, sooner than expected. I wasn't expecting this quite so soon. The reason I was staying around was to have the foster baby next week, but I'm not doing that now for a myriad of reasons, which I won't go into. I don't think, no, I don't need them on. It ain't funny. The destination for this road trip has changed many times. It's been Scotland, it's been the Yorkshire Dales, it's been the Peak District, it's been just everywhere. It's been all over the place. But I will leave it a mystery for now, unless I put it in the thumbnail or the title or something. But it's a mystery for now. You'll have to wait and see. I don't know whether I'm going to make it there today because it's about, I don't know, about three and a half hours away from... Where I live and I'm just going to head down there. My stop's somewhere overnight. Might be meeting up with a friend on this road trip. We shall see. They might be joining me in a couple of days. But they do have a tendency of not doing what they say they're going to do. So I'm not sure. It's one of the qualities I like least about them. But yeah, we'll see if that does end up happening. It would be nice if it does. But who knows, it could be a solo road trip. Well, it will be a road trip. A solo road trip going down there. It has just got miserable and miserable weather-wise. Further south I'm heading. Well that was a boring three hours on the M6 and then the M5. I am possibly at my park up. I did want to go a little bit further but it's sort of the weather's just it's just so dark and miserable and so I was just like oh do you know what I'm just going to pull over and have a look. I'm at a ski resort. Gloucester Ski and Snowboard Centre. There's skiing in front of me. I don't know whether I can park here so I need to check. I just want to park for the night and you can park here. People are saying that you can but it just doesn't feel right to me so I am just going to drive down. I saw loads of potential like little side streets and that whilst I was coming up here so I'm just going to go and head to one of them for the night. Just going to stretch my legs. It feels so good to get out and stretch. It's my park but I found a little, I don't know, a little bit of whatever this is. That road there actually is a little bit noisy so I might just back up a bit so I've just got like the trees between us a bit more. Not that that'll do much for the sound but you know. It's quite dark fast. I'll just put my window coverings on. It's absolutely boiling in here. Look. Oh my jeez we are. 22 degrees. It's a hot one. I need to cook some dinner. I've raided my fridge at home and brought all my vegetables. I've got an absolute ton of vegetables with me so I'm just gonna chop up some veg, potato, veg. Get some dinner on the go. What time is it? Half past five Oh, for God's sake. A little update from my fern souvenir last year. Not last year. From the last video. That was a bit of a silly idea, wasn't it? Of course. They dropped their needles. I'll have to clean that up. Maybe I'll just keep the twig on. Oh, my goodness. I've got an absolute beast of a dinner. I should have kept it in the pan. Wow. Oh, I'm going to have a nice little evening. It's going to be a wet quali. Quali's about to start in Brazil. Wet quali in Brazil. Nice dinner. I need a tray or something. It's pouring down in Brazil. This is going to be good. Hopefully. Any of these fireworks, I can't see them. My evening is not going to plan. I've just got ready for bed. The quali's not on. It's raining too much. I'm just going to get into bed and hopefully get some quali in this evening. If not, it might be on tomorrow instead. Super Sunday. Good night. I'll see you in the morning. There's loads of fireworks, but whenever I get out there, I keep going out to look and I can't ever see them. So, never mind. See you tomorrow. It's not quite. It's 14, 15 degrees. It's not quite a diesel heater morning. I forgot last night I'd been making up breakfast. I knew I was having overnight oats. I was having blueberry overnight oats for my breakfast and I forgot to make it last night. So I'm just sitting here waiting for the oats to soak up the milk. I should have done that last night. Oops, nevermind. Oh, looks a bit sore. Oh, I've slept funny. It's actually Remembrance Sunday today, so. I want to get myself all organised, I want to find somewhere, I really don't know where I am that, well, Gloucester, did I say I was in Gloucester? I want to find a Remembrance Parade thing to go see. Also, the last charity video, the top comment about which charity to donate to was the Royal British Legion, which was obviously very fitting for this time of year, so I just had a little look. And, um... about how much that video earned. YouTube does not pay enough. Well I suppose that video didn't get that many views but um it earned £9.20 so I think we'll just round up to a tenner. We'll go and get a tenner out, we'll go and donate that. It is a little fresh out here this morning, it's nice but it's a little cold on the hands. Maybe I should have put some gloves out with me. I am on a walk into Gloucester. This is like a cemetery that I mean I was obviously I was I was parked on 172 Road, I think the van is just there. Very fitting for the day. Look at this. I love it. I need to do that. I get extra food. Sometimes there's like food waste collections from supermarkets and I'll try and get rid as much as I can but sometimes I'm just left with loads I never thought of. Like I don't know how sanitary that is to be honest to like just put it out on the driveway but look at that. 1877 for diesel. That's the cheapest I've seen in a long time. I'll have to fill up before I leave. Morning. When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today. Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there. I do not sleep. Right, Remembrance service all over. We're going to have a little wander around Gloucester. Not a city person, as you may know, but we're going to have a little look at the cathedral. I'll have to do that donation online because I couldn't find anywhere to donate. Whoa, I do love a cathedral. Just think they're magnificent. Right, that was it. I don't know whether Gloucester's the best place, but I just wanted to see the cathedral. I'm going to head back to the van now. Back at the van. Right, I'm moving on. I'm not even going to get into the back. I'm pretty hungry it is. I don't know after 12 or so, but I'm going to drive for a little bit. That was a lot of walking. Okay. We're heading to the coast because you know how much I love a good beach. And it's been a while since I've seen the sea, I think. Two or three weeks, maybe? So, the coast it is. I'm not sure whether there'll be any swimming. I'm not sure whether I am a winter swimmer. We'll see. We'll I have arrived at what will have to be my day parking spot because as I was driving along, I spotted the dreaded no overnight parking, so that's alright, I can see the sea, kind of, but it's very grey. Bye. Oh. There's sea out there, I promise. I hate doing any form of like cooking or preparing food or anything in the van, it just irritates me, like I really love cooking, I just get irritated with the lack of space and things, but I've just made myself. Huge big salad. I had to make it in my pan because I didn't have a big enough bowl. I'm in Portishead. I'm going to have a little explore. There will be no sea swimming. No. Not an absolute chance. I had thought I would stay here the night. I'd hoped. I saw on the map this little spot. And I thought, maybe, maybe I can stay the night. And I thought, maybe not here on the front here, but just back there. There's like a little lake road. I'll show you in a bit. And I thought maybe that's where I could park. It is lovely here, they've got this lovely lake park area and then I'm just parked there, well further down there, in the sea here. Just looking on the map that's an open air, well I don't know if it's that building specifically, but it's an open air heated swimming pool but I think it's closed in November, that would have been nice. I'm taking a little walk to Sugarloaf beach, I'm gonna go check it out. Sugarloaf sounds really familiar, is that a mountain or something or a hill? In Wales, I feel like I've been up there. Sugarloaf, maybe like South Wales, I don't know. Let me know. Is that a place? Sugarloaf Hill. I think I need to face the reality that the... Or get a bit more used to some cold water. My outdoor swimming is maybe done for the year. Unless I get to Spain. My plan is Spain in January. I don't know how realistic that is, but that is my plan at the moment. I thought this was going to be a beach walk, but it's ended up... Seas down there, it's ended up taking me up here. Maybe you can't walk down there. This is the area of the country that I'm going to be knocking around in for the next week or so. So kind of like Devon, Bristol, you know, the little, that bit. Probably won't be heading into Cornwall, but if you've got any suggestions for places to go, things to see, hikes to go on, any of that good stuff, please let me know because you've always come up with some wonderful suggestions for me before and I would really appreciate it. This is not the walk I was expecting to be having. I see beach, maybe. Can I get down here? There's steps. Oh, yes, I can. God bless them. There's loads of them. This is Sugarloaf Beach. Just had to look on my maps. I was expecting an actual beach. I guess it's just a pebbly beach. I thought it was a nice little walk, I guess. I think I'm going to head back to the van the rest of the evening, go and find a park up somewhere I'm actually allowed to stay. I think I will see you in the next one. Thank you very much for... Oh, I will do that donation online, actually, for the Royal British Legion. Yeah, I'll do that as soon as I get back from the van and I will see you in the next one. Bye