Traveling Northern Europe 4x4 Ep02: Our Journey & Living in a Jeep

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Our six month journey through Europe up to Northern Scandinavian wilderness continues. We stayed at Camping De Roos for three nights. Despite how tranquil it was we had to leave and making some progress as its easy to stop. We are currently in Northern Germany and have some videos of our time here. Tomorrow we enter Denmark. Will try and answer any comment questions soon!

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hi there guys Mike from mcq bushcraft here and Megan hope you're all well this is our third day isn't it we're getting packed up in a minute and we're leaving and camp DeRose that video you just watched is actually the second video of our trip in this video we're just gonna give you a bit of a rundown of our trip and how we got here our journey and also give you a tour of our vehicle in terms of the living space and some of the facilities onboard as a as a mobile home so it started in your sister's place at Windsor yeah so we went to Windsor stayed with Megan's sister and brother-in-law and spent some time with the kids there's really good wasn't they've just moved back from Singapore so it's nice to see them before we hit the road then we left for Harwich and we got the ferry across to the Hook of Holland Megan's first time on the ferry it was really interesting to go and just experience that so we basically came off and interestingly breathalyzed straightaway were later people got busted straightaway come off the ferry like holiday yeah breathalysed busted straight away I guess that's a lesson to be learnt really in a house you get on a ferry these days normally you drive a lot at the time so it means you got to drive off so it was a smooth ride and then we went to Amsterdam boss didn't we a camp site Amsterdam boss which was okay in and get used to the roof tent and our set up yeah I almost got hit by a tram yeah not very good in cities no I think I found the metro working out the Metro so stressful punkin I had a heck serious headache yeah but it was all good and we saw a few sights and then we decided to leave and we met Joanne who owns a woodland he was very kind he contacted us online said come and stare on woodland and he had some friends he had his family there his friends had their family there they put on some food for us and they made us feel really welcome we had a great time and just wanted to say thank you to Joanne and his friends I can't pronounce his friends thing Lorraine that's it Matane and then we ended up coming here you saw the last video that's kind of our experience here it's been really nice very nice campsite really good facilities if you have a family and you were looking for somewhere to get away to I would definitely recommend this place it's only a short drive away or the UK standards get the ferry over drive here I think it cost six hundred years a year for a plot some people live here as well like semi-permanent and I think they owned the place story they might be watching me story but yeah let's give you a walk around anyway of our home and and then we'll come back and we'll get packed up and we've got to leave because we're going across the border today into Germany so grab the camera give you a walk around so this is the setup as it stands at the moment you can see the roof tent on top and we've got a DD 3x3 tarp at the back because we couldn't afford to get an awning on the actual bonnet that's just the cover for the front runner roof tent and I've just got some bungees holding that on so if it gets really windy it's not gonna blow away in the night you're strapped onto the actual arches there on the rack we've got quite a lot of these little loops here tied in I just m8 the racks all geared for a mate so you can just slide things in it just makes it really useful for putting things on so on the roof we've got a hi-lift jack a pretty good Spade and there's a Hannibal canvas waterproof bag that we keep all our bedding dry bags as well as the chairs and some poles for the roof tent we'll start with the inside they on the front if we open that there's not a lot going on in the front you can see we've got a few items in there like a hammer just a smash glass we've got the light for the auxilary LED lights at the front of the vehicle I've got a fire extinguisher just below me down there this is a steering lock you can buy these in the UK it's called a disc lock although I've reinforced mine with six mil plate I did it a while ago because they're actually not that difficult to get off when you learn how they work and in the middle there we've got mag light an LED bulb we've got a first aid kit full first-aid kit I said I'll go through that in another video but it's quite comprehensive and in here we've got high vis and breathalyzer you only really need breathalyzer forefronts this just makes bag and down the other side she's got all her maps and things that she uses as she does all the navigation and we've got some spare maps in the actual glovebox just that one thing we did get given was this dog cage and I converted it into a little cage that bolts onto the draw system at the back and also clips to the back of the seats and it just separates you from all the stuff behind you in case you have to do an emergency stuff and there's a bungee there too just in case you want to strap something there like a jacket or maps or whatever you want to put that the centre of the vehicles where we have our personal items we get a side each so this is my side you can see I've got an organizer on the door things in there like toiletries toothbrush some bits and bobs my knives down the bottom there for carving and for bushcraft and just for general stuff and all our clothes are in here so we've got these organizers of three compartments and Agdal gear so you know we've got water proofs like Gators things for canoeing and wading in rivers so you didn't get your feet chopped up in the middle there we have a dry bag that we put our dirty clothes in and we have got environmentally friendly clothes wash that we can use basically we use the dry bag like a washing machine so once it's full put water in it do some washing and then strain it all out and hang it and there's pegs and a clothesline in there to hang underneath the roof tent at the front this here is a communal wash bag with a large towel in and again things to wash ourselves with and we just put our new clothes in there take it with us put our toiletries in there and just use it as like a communal wash bag and we've got another cage at the back but I've just tied back into two steel bars in the actual vehicle running from pillar to pillar again it separates you from all that weight at the back so not everything is being forced on this one cage at the front if you have to do an emergency stop but underneath all of this you can kind of see where the drawers end just there and the table continues and it's supported and tied in to the bottom here where the seats used to clip down onto I've got some stuff behind me there I've got a spare water container I've got a full recovery kit just in there with shackles and straps I've got my boots in a boots bag and a very small Jerry can well fuel can that really should have been a lot bigger but we didn't get one before we left and that was all they had when we got here so that's that for the time being that's the leisure battery strapped in onto its own like sort of plinth there its own shelf and we've got the split charge they're all wired in the wiring just goes underneath all of this stuff here to the front of the vehicle through the firewall and that just sits there and it's wired into the back of the vehicle which I'll show you at the moment you can see the drawers actually have no back to them but they do have a block so nothing can slide forward I did that mainly for maintenance reasons and there is a cleaning kit there for the g2 as this is our home now for a while and it's nice to keep it clean on the opposite side of the battery we have the gas bottle with the two meter line which is the maximum length you want it really nice you get a bit of a pressure drop and that just allows the draw to be fully pulled out without the gas bottle being pulled at all and it's strapped in and can't move anywhere we move around to the back of the vehicle you can see the main living area we've got a folding table just there folds in half with some storage space inside it it did come with four small chair but we left those behind because they have no backs to them and it can be uncomfortable after a while coming around here moving back onto the electronics that we have a look at you can see some ports there we've basically got two 12-volt cigarette lighter full USB a battery reader that tells you the voltage and an on and off switch so it doesn't put a continuous draw on the battery when we don't need it there's the Wi-Fi just there charging up get about 12 gig a month on that for about 18 pounds which isn't bad obviously with uploading videos you kind of need it and it really does help and there's a fuse box just there to it kind of look hard to access because of this but it's actually lower down than the in the shelf so it's pretty easy to use and nothing knocks it that's the reason why we put it there I didn't want things to interfere with it and I left this space here with a foam pad at the bottom so we can put things in like the laptop and the iPad and everything and it can remain uninsured by everything else and that's just a battery pack over the other side we've got a large fire extinguisher but there is one at the front I wouldn't just keep one at the back because of accessibility and we've got some other things knocking around like a bow saw a sharpening kit so this is two wet stains some Smurf poo and a stroke or Starkey blue we've got underneath here I've got my axes this is just a product I'm still prototyping at the moment and we've got the two axes in there but inside the drawers they fold down like that and they come out quite far and they just get to the end of where the back seats are and I've put an extension plate on the end that just gives you a little bit more work space and it's pretty strong you can put things on it you can put water on it in fact it can hold that water but surprisingly although I wouldn't risk it all the time in here this is the draw we use for our leather work equipment they make does a lot of the leather work now because she's trained up on it for a while and this is the technology draw we've got the laptop we got hook up we've got all sorts of things as a cat in water filter in the back there some notebooks it's mainly just for all our electronics our camera gear my tripod with my main rig on it goes there it just slides up in the back of that on the side here so that can be pushed back in just had a shower made use of the shower facilities you should have bought one sort of new to all this sort of stuff well we both are with this kind of thing we're usually just under a tarp with some basic stuff aren't we and they were driving around in this thing with loads of gear everywhere it's a bit weird to get organized but yeah it will go take a look at the camping shop just showing everyone the vehicle so this is the the kitchen area you can see I've taken this off that folding table and it just sits there we've got dustpan and brush bin bags and all our cutlery in there Meggie uses I've filled master as a kitchen knife fuels has amongst other things you pull that down again it comes right there

this hangs down obviously in the lays access and this comes all the way out this is our stove we've got some items of food and drink that we use regularly and we don't want to go into the main storage box which I'll show you in a moment so maybe we stopped at a rest area on a motorway we want to make some lunch you want to have a cup of tea we've got the stanley probably the most fundamental item no joke saves you so much gas if you're a regular tea drinker because you just make all of these and you've got 24 hours of hot tea and it really does keep it piping hot for 24 hours that just goes like this it folds up and we're good to go at the top there we've got two storage boxes these are all your boxes and these are actually currently given to us by Wingfield's um a really nice company it's will and Hana in the UK they didn't actually want anything for it I didn't even want me to mention it on video they just do over landing themselves and road trips and things and said I will send you these because I'm really useful and these are 60 litres say massive thanks to those guys really appreciate they've helped us so much and getting organized and they're really lightweight as well and you can line them and make them into cool boxes if you want to but this one here is spares and a full toolkit for the vehicle and this one here is full of food so this is a full 60 litre food chest that we use to store all of our food and top it up as we go we haven't needed to top it up yet we did a full shop back in the UK before we got on the ferry so that's the back of the vehicle it's pretty organized this table folds up it actually goes on top of one of the Alli boxes on the left and on the other one we sometimes roll up the spare will blanket and shove that in there too but you can see at the back there we've got our backpacks

there's the LK 35 my backpack and behind this makes backpack there and they're clipped in with carabiners to the actual wall at the back drive deshaney so they're kind of separated from our normal clothing and they're all packed up with camping gear so in there would be our uncompressed sleeping bags just loosely pushed in and my bitty bag and roll mat and just a few other things that I use for camping so the specifics of what I've shown you will unveil itself in time things like what's in the recovery kit what's in the tool kit what food are we cooking you know our clothing systems how we wash stuff all that kind of stuff we'll get into as as we go through kind of naturally really we're pretty organized it's a good setup we're weighing in about two thousand two hundred and sixty kilograms with me and Megan on board fully loaded I have the vehicle weighed we get roughly around 30 to 31 miles per gallon which is pretty good in a vehicle like this you wouldn't expect but yeah you probably notice we don't have a fridge to so and there were some comments on the last video why don't we both feet gluten-free Maggie's Cecilia so we have to be quite careful she can't have gluten and you know she reacts really badly to it takes her a long time to recover so it really is quite serious it's not just a diet fad it's ER

she's been diagnosed so we do eat I mean I eat gluten-free as well because it's easier that way but there's two things that I have myself that aren't gluten free which is my own bread on my own porridge in the morning and that's purely because I like golden syrup flavored porridge and is cheaper so much way cheaper if I just that gluten-free bread all the time and porridge I could be cutting through Megan's stuff real fast and it'll cost a lot of money it's like three pounds for a loaf of bread sometimes views I can pick something up 50 P so that's kind of why we we I would eat my own bread and porridge in that case but we don't have a fridge and the reason we don't have a fridge is we really don't eat a lot of meat doing if anything we never really have unless I when I did some hunting when we lived back in the UK so all the foods we have very simple foods they're all beans and grains and Rice's and we make our own will Megan makes her own sauces and spices and that's kind of the way we go so I mean I think we arrived on the best day possible when everyone had gone home after the holidays it's just absolutely dead here so it's like we've got the entire campsite to ourselves and I think one of my highlights was meeting the locals in the toilet when they tried to buffing out the way using the hairdryer need to tell me where she is Mike you know how this goes love where is she I'm gonna I'll get the strop and some shackles we'll we'll just tear off in the peaceful zone I don't like people pushing making it roam I get a bit protective anyway so we've got some cleaning up to do we've loved the Netherlands thank you to the locals for making us feel welcome yeah I've loved it here I've loved seeing the insects you know went before I was into bushcraft as a child I was a member of a lot of insect groups and we used to go out and collect insects and these surveys and my passion has always been with wildlife and bushcraft really was just a comfortable way of learning skills to be out and enjoy it and it's just really nice so really enjoyed that look I'm looking forward to that a lot more but we've got a lot of caterpillar droppings to sort out yeah that's why you know like that or like that unless you really want the flavouring but I haven't seen any of those procession caterpillars the hairy days the ones that you can have got bad reactions for just the oak worm ones that are everywhere so it looks like it's just them so we'll get the roof tent cleaned up we'll get packed away and and then we're gonna be on our way for the border into Germany so hope you enjoyed this video hope you liked the setup thanks for watching and we'll see you very soon in another episode take care now the mic wasn't on we got to it all again

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