Slow Travel & Short Days in the Ebro Delta (Spain Winter Van Life)
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Although it can be tricky this time of the year to manage the colder and short days, while living and travelling in our motorhome, we have had a bit of luck with plenty of sunny days this December along the Catalonian coast of Spain. Getting up to see the sunrise is much easier if you can stay in bed until after 8 am! :-) But you have to be mindful that the days don't just slip away from you, and you have to put a lot more effort into getting out there and make the most of it. For us, it's also a period of slowing down as a full year of constant moving around takes its toll eventually.
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I love Lisa's passion for Spain. Me too. I have been living here for 9 years now.❤
That sounds fantastic! We always enjoy our time in Spain 😍 Thanks for watching!
Honestly guys, your videos just keep getting better and better. I love the quality of your editing and your boundless energy and zest for life . Please keep the videos coming as they are utterly compelling.
That's very nice of you. Much appreciated. ❤️
Super Stuff once more ... i love the honesty and integrity of your travels and filming
We appreciate that! Thank you!
Really enjoying your videos. It’s good to see what you cook and just generally what you’re up to. Kite surfing looked amazing!
Thanks! ❤ To be honest, winter kitesurfing isn't as fun! 🥶
hello 🙂 I don't know this part of Spain yet, maybe in the near future, good weather, beautiful places, finally enjoy it.
And now, have a merry Christmas and many adventures in the new year, kisses
Thank you! 😃 You too! ❤
If you continue south along the coast you will leave the Mediterranean climate and enter the unique BSh Hot semi-arid climate at Torrevieja and south along the Orihuela Costa down to Murcia. The BSh weather is a microclimate unique to the south east or Spain and some parts of Greece. Today, 20th Dec I was at Cabo Roig beach and many people in swimming and temps got up to 22c. Just beautiful. Temps here will be 18c-21c for next 7 days, during the daytime. Chilly early in mornings tho. In this area the cities of Alicante, Elche, Murcia and Cartegena are all worth a visit (if I had to choose I'd pick Alicante and Cartegena). Lots of interesting Roman ruins at Cartegena. The Tabernas desert close by too...Europes only desert.
That's super interesting, thank you. Almost 2 years ago we spent a few months around Mojácar and we saw a lot of the coast from Cabo de Gata to Cartagena. We really like the semi-arid desert like feel of that region and that coast is spectacular.
Had to look up Tahini and how to make hummus. Did not realise it was that simple to make, until saw you make it in the van. Meal looked delicious. Will definitely try this meal.
Making hummus is super simple. Fresh garlic is best but not too much, you can adjust the smoothness of the humus by adding a spoon of water at the end. I don't measure anything and just go by feel and taste. Almost impossible to get wrong. Enjoy!
Thanks again 😅😅
Started following you guys recently and really enjoying your videos and looking forward to Morocco ones. We are from Gibraltar and traveling with our motor home for 2 years now. Planning to go away with our motor home for a whole year in 2025
Hi and welcome to our channel! ❤ A full-year trip will be great - especially if you already have experience traveling with your motorhome.
Brilliant video!! We smiled the whole way through it watching you both and seeing the love you have for what you are doing and enjoying. Merry Christmas to you both. Have a great day🎄🎄🎄🎄
Thank you so much for your nice comment and wishes. ❤️
Well now I'm hungry! We're hungry for Spain as well. It looks beautiful and your inspiration is such my wife is finally going to retire. Since the Schengen is a problem for us we will probably do everything in 6 month segments. Our health programs require us to be back in Canada every 6 months but we will continuing to plan. I shoot sport and have shot kites a number of times. I'll work out a trade. I shoot you flying and you teach me to fly a drone...deal!
Sounds like a plan! 😁 Lisa's also supposed to improve her flying skills so we'll do group lessons. 😝
Truth is that it's a lot trickier to be comfortable in Europe from mid-November to mid-March and although one can 'chase the sun' it means covering lots of distance every few months. Breaking it up in 6-month segments is not a bad thing. We're actually thinking of doing the same and alternate with (perhaps) South America in the near future.
I love baked beans, and dont like the SPROUTS, I like your style and you vist such wonderfull places, I would love to be able to do that unfortunatly not possable so I will just follow your adventures, wonderfull video this week, ps dont worry about the hair, and lest you have hair ! ha ha... take care, and I hope you find your big wind !!😀
Thank you for your comment! ❤ Let's also hope for some sunny skies!
Hey you two, I don’t think you got be in a better place then Spain at the moment. Here in the Netherlands we have storm Pia coming over with gusts of wind of 83 km/u 💨🌬️and when there is no storm it rains 😩 So i am very glad with you’re good mood / good weather video 😂
Nice to see you visit the Delta de L’Ebre we were at L’Aldea a couple of times 😊. Good kiting Andre 👍 groetjes 😘👋
Thanks Rita! There has been a few days of strong wind around the delta but every day has been sunny. 🌞😁 Not too bad at all.
All the best you 2
Thank you! Same for you! 😎
Hey guys, we just stopped at a pub after a busy day exploring Girona. We have a beer, Cava and your video to watch! 👍
Reminds us a lot of the Camargue 🦩region.
We will try your meal but substitute out the eggplant, the only food we don’t like.😝
Have fun chasing the sun & wind!
😊😁 To be honest we don't really do eggplant much either. Although like this it's really nice. The only other way is fried - but only if a real Italian Nonna makes it. 😁 We're also having a bit of Cava tonight, it's the rule in Spain. 😬😝 Pity we missed you this time.. but we'll just have to come find you in France .
Sprouts for breakfast, mad 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣 You'll have to try! 😜
Merry Christmas!!!
Same to you! Thank you!
You guys really do know the best spots in Spain out of season for folks that aren't interested in bars and English things ( I honestly have no problem with folks that like that, you do you is my motto). We just love the Spain where the Spanish live and spend a lot of time there. We're lucky because we live in France so it's not too far away. Great vlogs guys. We also spent a couple of years in South Africa and loved it such a beautiful country. I spent every summer holiday when I was a child in Italy and just loved it too .
Thanks Tanya ❤ To be honest, winter kitesurfing isn't as fun 🥶 and this time of the year we miss the sun and sea of Cape Town and the West Coast. Last year December we were mostly in Puglia and it felt a lot colder than now, perhaps we're just lucky this year.
Great video you guys! Love the music too!
Thanks Haymish. 😎
How are the road quality in Spain so far? I see you go off the main roads often and I will be using them too next year on our tour. How is your suspension holding up so far (that repair in Serbia and Hungary)? And you may think there isn't much to film and share in winter for us viewers, but on contrary. Seeing these places now in winter will be nahdy to compare them to summer time to how crowded they really are in summer. Or not. Also I assume you are using your SIM cards for internet connection. How is the signal strength and speed overall and who is your provider. For our trip to Europe we use British 3 SIM card and it was excellent through most of the European countries - simless signal reception when driving in and out of different countries. But the only countries we have never been to is Spain, Portugal and Nordic countries and far eastern EU. So these videos are super useful for us. Thanks for the upload. BTW, great surfing show. Who knew a good chef can be a good surfer too. Poor Lisa freezing her butt while Andree is having fun. I guess it is a payback time for the summer hot day when Andre has to sweat while waiting for Lisa to get out of the bakery shop or ice cream shop. I hope your fridge is stocked with ice cream for some compensation now.
😂 Ice-cream in winter?! YEs, of course we have some in the freezer! 😀You know us too well. 😎
Lisa had many hours on the beach watching me kite and for the most of it, it's during summer so it's not too bad on the beach. Winter kite surfing isn't too appealing to me to be honest. I really struggle with the cold.
On the roads. Generally the roads in Spain are in great condition. Probably some of the best in Europe. Even when you venture off the main roads they still remain decent. In the Delta for example there's loads of really narrow roads but the surface is reasonably good. The only thing to be careful of is to accidently drive into an old centro storico of small towns. We don't follow our GPS blindly and we pay attention to road signs.
For Internet we only use data sims and if we're in a country longer than a week we will usually get a local sim for our primary data. Each of us also has an Italian SIM which roams well everywhere but is limited in roaming data. In some countries it's easier just to pay the premium to top up our roaming data rather than get a local sim. For example in Germany prepaid data sims are expensive and usually not worth getting. Same for Sweden and Norway. We just roamed with our Italian sims there. But in Denmark we got a local Lycamobile sim, you buy it over the counter in a supermarket and it's very affordable. Portugal is much easier than Spain and cheaper too for local sims. Spain we either get Vodafone or Movistar and in Portugal you can get MEO unlimited for 1.20 per day prepaid. What we find is that if you roam you almost always get a better quality of service than in your 'home country' and we've never had completely unusable connections when roaming.
Re: Breakfast. I love baked beans, especially canned by KOO, but I wouldn't want to eat it if I lived the #vanlife. Baked beans are for adventure motorcycling when you can stand up on the pegs, arch forward and turbo boost yourself an extra 1 or 2 km/h.
😂 Remind me never to ride behind you!
What a lovely coastline. You're definitely in the right place for this time of year. It's been constant wind and rain here in Scotland, with unpleasant short dark damp days.
Merry Xmas André and Lisa when it comes.
Thank you, Andy! Best wishes for you too! We've had some strong wind every so often but today it's t-shirt weather again and the sun is just wonderful. 🌞
Nice n relaxed 😊
Andre when is Your Cook Book coming out ?? 😊
Stay Free and Safe Travels 😀 🙏
Thanks Mike. You'll just have to take notes while you watch the video 😂
@@WeWillNomad 😉
Hi guys! A good introduction to peaceful places. I personally enjoy such beach places, where you can sit outside and draw and do creative work, without the crowds and sounds of tourists. Have a nice week. 🤠
Thanks! Yes, we've been hanging around the Ebro Delta area a lot longer than we usually would, but the peacefulness has been wonderful. ❤
@@WeWillNomad Enjoy a wonderful lifestyle. We will follow 🤠 🚀❄
Enjoyed watching your travels and the kite surfing was superb! We escape winter by going
to the sunniest part of Spain....Costa de Almeria.
Thanks! ❤ Almeria is definitely the area to be in. Probably a few degrees warmer than where we are as well.
That Brussels sprouts breakfast? It's 6am when I'm watching this and my mouth is watering! 🙂Don't you throw in some garlic cloves for good smelling measure? Love your videos, love the places you go to, adding a lot of them to my Google Earth traveling file for future reference. Flamingos!
🤣 Garlic is a great anti-oxident 🤔but just imagine what the van would smell like then!
@@WeWillNomad I know! The smell would be quite something 😀 But Brussels sprouts and garlic go together so well! With bacon and some parmesan... mmmm!
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Hi guys 👋 what are you doing to me, I am so envious of you, that lovely sunshine 🌞 the beautiful landscape, and the peace and quiet. Next year I'm coming to Spain 🇪🇸.
I wish you both a Happy Christmas and peaceful New year.
Stay safe and thank you 👍🐸
❤️ Thank you. You can find peace wherever you are but being in a sunny place does help a bit 😁 all the best for you as well. 😊
Wow gorgeous beaches and the weather … beats it here in the UK ! Andrè… you can certainly kite surf-ski!!! Looked awesome🙏
I’m totally with you m, we will be following the sun as much as possible too… and spending winter in Morocco. So …really looking forward to watching your vlog there!
Great vlog and Grazie for sharing … slow loving suits you and I can’t wait to embark on that lifestyle . You both shine 🙏🎄🚌🌅🧘♀️🥦❄️🌞❤
* or even slow living… both😘
@@johudson6765 Thanks! We're having a good time just taking it slower. There's no shortage of sunshine but the days are a bit short. Also, as much as I (Andre) love kitesurfing, for me it's a summer sport. 😂
@@WeWillNomad aww well you know better short days in Spain than in grey cold rainy England! Hehe and I get that … kitesurfing in summer … I’m sure is brilliant!! Good to share your food too amd btw… you’er hair looked good … au natural 😘
I've done it again, I deliberately waited to view this video as a treat for later !
I was watching Rugby and Darts videos and ignoring your latest video cos I wanted to savor it as a treat for later on. I knew that it was going to be good and of course it was. Yes, I'm weird....and I made notes.
- Intro and drone footage is amazing.
- I thought that you were much more South than you are, and still the weather is so nice.
- Its great to see so many bins at that beachside park up. It looks stunning.
- I'm curious, have you considered getting Starlink ? or do you find that you manage ok with good 4G/5G from your phones ? I was just thinking that parked up on that car-park without decent internet might be a bit a boring. Or maybe I'm just boring....
- What an amazing sunset, so maybe you could just sit up late watching the sun go down. Who needs the internet....
- I need to try and replicate an Andre breakfast, it always looks so good.
- Lisa's positivity is great.
- Is there anything that Andre cannot do ? that rump steak meal looks so tasty.
- WOW ! Amazing kite surfing skills on display guys. Andre showing off again.
- I need to get some Brussels sprouts and bacon so that I can rustle up an amazing "Andre Style" brekkie. I thought I was great frying two free range eggs on toast this morning. Must do better.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful journey with us. I'm still not impressed with the way that you are both wearing sun glasses to shield your eyes from that glaring sun in December.
Safe travels, looking forward to the next video.
Ronan! You're comments are treat. 😁Thing is, if we don't wear sunnies, Lisa will be squinting too much.
Thanks for all the positive comments. On the Internet, it's always a priority for us so we do check 4G signal where we are. On the odd occasion we have slower speeds but for the most of it in Europe it's very good. The cost of Starlink is coming down all the time and it's becoming a feasible alternative. That can't be a single option though as we need to be able to flatmount the dish and it must always be usable even on the move. We always require a hotspot in the vehicle for security so we might still need a sim for our router and of course we also need sims for our own phones (but in Europe we stay on our IT sims). Biggest problem with Starlink is the power consumption. There's no off the shelf 12V solution and out of the box it easily requires 100W. Sound like nothing but in a motorhome that's a LOT of power. Especially in winter. It would have been nice for Morocco though as we will have to get all local SIMS there.. 🤫
Love the video and the recipes, but the only thing is I don't like brusal sprouts.
neither of us used to eat brussels sprouts either and Lisa is still not super fond of it. This is literally the only way I can get her to eat it. For breakfast it's surprisingly good! But not first choice. 😁
Enough with the Brussels sprouts. They’re giving me the dry boak (as we say in Scotland) 😜
🤣😁 It's surprisingly good, if you add an equal amount of butter .
Hi André and Lisa. I've just been enjoying your latest video. I'm sitting up here in the far north, and everything is gray, wet, and windy. But--- right around the corner, my adventure begins, and I hope we can meet somewhere in the spring. When are you arriving in Marocco, and how long do you plan to stay there? By the way, some cool shots with the drone while driving Millie. Warm regards."
Hi Allan! We're definitely happy about the sunny skies, even though it's not particularly warm every day. It makes all the difference! At the moment our plan is to take the ferry from Algeciras to Tangier Med towards the second week of January. No fixed itinerary yet but we'll probably stay in Morocco until mid-March. But we'll see how it goes. Hopefully we will meet up somewhere!
Hi guys 😊 Ahhhhh Spain 🇪🇸 ❤️ you two look well, bright, happy and chilled on a diet of slow travel and smelly sprouts 🙃 and André, please sort your hair before going on camera!!!
Another great film and it feels strange to be in the same country as you!!
Safe and happy travels and cat sitting xx
Thank you! I keep suggesting to shave all the hair off.. You know, to save water and and for easy maintenance. Lisa's not biting 😁 😂 You guys are supposed to be heading south for some more warmth .. get out of the mountains already!
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Definitely with you there - no beans. Must a South African thing 😂
Especially not for breakfast right?! 🤣
I think it's an English thing. I personally love baked beans, but I understand the consequences...
@@luckystriker7489 Definitely an English thing 🤣
I love your content.
Great information and great quality videos.
I'm wondering what kind of Visa you have that allows you to spend so much time in Schengen countries.
Thank you! We're fortunate to both have Italian citizenship. Else it would have been impossible to for us to travel like this.
Great video and great home cooked food. Lovely to see some people who eat meat and drink a little bit of booze 🍾
Thank you! On average less than 5 percent of Europe is vegetarian. Interestingly, Germany has the highest proportion at 10%.. We definitely enjoy meat but we do pay attention to the source.. We'll have to make a spoof video of why we're not really van lifers 🤣
I would like to know how do you while away the long hours of darkness on winter evenings..any tips would be great..
Good question! The worst part is that we often feel a lack productivity this time of the year. The days start late and end early. You tend to sit more, move around less and definitely eat more 😀 That said we do keep busy even if our 'nights' will start earlier than in summer. We will write a blog, edit a video, catch up on correspondence and even do some actual (online) work. Usually, we have supper earlier this time of the year (around 7) after which we will work a bit more until 9 pm. We will then usually watch a movie or CZcams for an hour or so. In bed by 11pm and if not sleepy read a book. Sunrise is super late now, but we usually get up around 7:30 anyway.
Et une recette à base de riz cultivé dans le delta de l'Èbre, ça ne vous a pas tenté?
Definitely! On our previous time in Spain, we had a ritual of enjoying a rice dish every Sunday.
What exactly is the source of income, to live like that? I bet that van eats at least 15L/100km on average! 6 years for 2 individuals "taking it slow" (doing nothing)? You must be millionares.
You assume we do 'nothing'? Being millionaires would be nice. But sadly, we're just normal people who had (has) normal jobs who chooses to spend a lot less than what we make or have. The 'how' takes effort and it requires a lot of dedication, sacrifice, and planning for many years. We did answer some of this on how we afford to travel full-time in a Q&A from early 2023 which you might find helpful. The short answer is, we live off a combination of savings, passive investments (property & stocks) as well as income from remote work projects on occasion. CZcams does not make us money. You might also be interested that our motorhome consumes on avg less than 10L per 100km and we usually travel less than 10 000km's per year.