From a very rainy Spain to a very hot and Sunny UK. Between the Lakes with Mike and Yvonne
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- This is episode 99
This episode depicts our travel from a very wet and rainy Alicante in Spain to a very hot and sunny West Yorkshire in the UK. A taxi, a plane and two buses.
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Hope your toe gets better soon Yvonne - hope the Spanish health service was helpful - enjoy your spell back in the UK
Hi Rhian, yes Yvonne's toe is much better now, thank you. Thanks for watching again, much appreciated. All the best Mike and Yvonne.
hi mike yvonne, poor yvonne and her toe ,she did look tired and fed up in spain when you were leaving, what an amazing shot of her sitting on plane smiling looking at camera, and she seem to cheer up and smile more getting closer to home, btw mike get them conifers trimmed there nearly blocking out the sunlight, also noticed the gentleman in you letting yvonne in the house first , to deal with the burglars, ha ha
Hi Martin, thanks for watching and for your comments.Yes, I'm always the gentleman....lol
Speedy recovery Yvonne, hope you and Mike both well and enjoying the UK weather...so looking forward to the next Video too. Thanks for sharing 😎
Hi Patricia, thanks for watching and your nice comment. All the best Mike and Yvonne.
Another great video guys. Mike I’m sorry to see Bradford City FC not making it to the play offs. Yvonne sorry to hear about your Toe I hope it’s on the mend now. Great watching your videos as always it gives me allot of hope that one day I’ll have a little pad out there as well 😊
Thanks again Yogi. Hope you are well, Yvonne's toe is fine now but Bradford City are still in League 2...lol
It was lovely bumping into to you outside the bank 🤞🏻you get in soon
Nice to see you Charlie, we’ve just got here so might see you again, we are here until mid November.. all the best Mike and Yvonne.
Hi Mike and Yvonne.
Hope you are keeping well and Yvonne is on the mend.
Unrelated to this video but to your previous video on the port in torrevieja.
We've had our place in Playa Flamenca for nearly 20 years and never ventured down there until today.
What a lovely place, and lots of restaurants offering menu del dia.
Keep up the good work.
Pete and Anne xx
Hi Pete and Anne, Yvonne is almost fully back to normal now so that's good. We are glad you've discovered that area, it certainly is worth the visit. The other side is also great with a few more good places to eat and drink....see it here: czcams.com/video/An4JRFbZiLI/video.html and also: czcams.com/video/N5kAsdUrJsU/video.html
The harbour does have three areas and they all have their merits. Thanks for watching and for your comments. Best wishes, Mike and Yvoone.
Welcome home!
Thank you Lesley, Hope you are well...Best wishes Mike and Yvonne.
Come on guys! Spain desperately needs rain, and you know it. Good to see you back on my screen again though. 😊
Hi Sven, yes you are right, it's a godsend for the farmers and much appreciated by them. Thanks for watching and for your comments. All the best, Mike and Yvonne.
@@BetweenTheLakes Thank you for delivering well-produced relevant and entertaining reports from my favorite part of Spain. ❤👍
@@Sven.Bornemark Kind comments, thank you, much appreciated.
We are currently in Spain at the not far from Quesada.🌞 We fly to/from Leeds Bradford so that part of your video was extremely familiar!
Hi LindaKinder929, Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching, all the best, Mike and Yvonne.
Good one!
But sorry to hear about poor Yvonne's toe.
Hope by now it is a lot better.
Looking 4ward to ep:100 😊
Hi Julia, yes, my foot is a lot better now thanks. All the sympathy I get from Mike helps it to heal more speedily than would otherwise be the case. Thanks for watching and for your comment, All the best, Mike and Yvonne.
FENOMENAL. Nice to see you
Hi Zoya, hope you are well. Thanks for watching, all the best Mike and Yvonne.
Thanks for another interesting video, but the start watching you put your bikes away reminded me of what happened when I left Thursday, usually put my bikes up the night before but because I had evening flight left them downstairs, went to put them up when getting ready to leave for airport and gone😢😮, some toe rag had taken advantage of a broken security gate and pinched them both 😢😢
Hi Brian, Oh wow, that's bad news. We have become more careful after a couple of our subscribers had theirs pinched on the front. We chain them up wherever we go now, even at home we chain them to our gate. I don't think Torrevieja is worse than any other town in Spain but there will always be bad people everywhere. Anyway, thanks for watching and keeping us up to speed with events. Best wishes, Mike and Yvonne.
Yeah, my own fault, I was the same always chaining them everywhere, so back onto Facebook marketplace when I get back trying to find replacements, oh well will keep me busy 😆
Evening Yvonne & Mike, thanks for sharing your homeward bound video. Our hols to Quesada were just what we needed, we got very lucky with the weather from may 30th to 10th June.....only a days rain last Wednesday......otherwise, lovely weather 😊.......going back in September 👌really looking forward to episode 100 ! 🥳......hope, your majorca trip has gone well ! Adios for now, from a sunny morpeth 👋
Hi Graham, glad you enjoyed our trip home. Yes, we are looking forward to Majorca on Friday for 4 days, there will be a video, so stay tuned for that. It will be after our episode 100 about the price comparison between Spain and UK. The weather here (in the UK) is great at the moment, hope it's good in Morpeth, I'm sure it will be. Thanks for watching and for your comment, best wishes, Mike and Yvonne.
@BetweentheLakes Beunos Dias Mike & Yvonne, thank you for your reply 🧡.......yes it was a great holiday and cannot wait to return in September. Very much looking forward to episode 100 & mallorca's video, too 🙂. So from a sunny morpeth, it's 3 2 1 ping ! 🍻. I hope your toe, Yvonne, makes a full and healthy recovery! 🤞
Alicante from Benidorm when
Welcome back, hope your feeling better Yvonne.
Hi Sharon, yes my foot is a lot better now thanks. Hope you are well and thank you for watching. Best wishes, Mike and Yvonne.
Looking forward to the next show ❤
Hi Stephen, Thanks for watching and for your comment. All the best Mike and Yvonne.
Good evening you two 😊Sorry to hear Yvonne has broken her toe with lots of sympathy from Mike lol
😆 We sold up last October and miss our trips out to our Casa in Sucina 😢 But watching you two makes happy memories 😊 Hopefully we’ll get out next year as our friends have an apartment in Roda in Los Alcazares where it all started for us 10 years ago. Get better soon Yvonne love Stevie x
Hi Stevie, thanks for watching and for your comment. Yes, Mike always comes across as a little sparse with his sympathy....preferring to ease the pain with laughter as opposed to empathy, but that's Mike and the laughter usually works fine. Hope you enjoy your trip to Roda soon. Best wishes, Mike and Yvonne.
Thanks to both of you for another entertainining video, i look forward to the next one on the cost of living as i will be buying around the Montesinos area shortly i hope. I always drive over via the ferry to either Santander or Bilbao but i did fly last october from Manchester and got diverted to Ibeza due to the runway being under water but we did eventually get to Alicante gone 1 am . Like you i use ninety /180 and do try to get the 180 in sschengen , wold like to hear how you manage your schengen days . Pete
Hi Pete, we nearly bought in La Harrada in Los Montesinos before we finally decided on where we are now. We really like the town and always pay a visit when we are over. The ninty180.com website is great and the one we always use, it's great the way it always remembers your trips so you don't have to re-input them to work things out. Thanks for watching, all the best Mike and Yvonne.
Yvonne, I wish you speedy recovery! 🍀
How about that weather, so odd! Looking forward to #100 ☀
We are off to the south of Spain (Malaga) for a couple of weeks of relaxation 🏖
Hi Janny, Thank you, my toe is a lot better now. Looks like the weather is back to normal now, Spain is hotter than the UK. We are setting off to Majorca later today for 4 days for my niece's wedding and they tell us it's quite hot there now after all the thunderstorms and rain. Thanks for watching, best wishes, Mike and Yvonne.
@@BetweenTheLakes Never been to Majorca, but I hear it's lovely! Enjoy! 🙂
Hi Mike and Yvonne, hadn't seen anything from you both for a while, nice to see you back. We've had torrential rain with an odd day of sunshine thrown in for the past month in Antalya Turkey, spitting cats and dogs outside now. Still it's welcome compared to last year with all the wild fires all over the med. Look forward to your UK/Torrevieja living costs comparison. Turkey prices have shot up last couple of years, most things are almost the same as in UK now, or even pricier
Hi Yutubis, We had a property in Turkey before we bought in Spain. It was in Didim / Altinkum. We sold it in 2017 and came to Spain the same year. It was cheaper than Spain to live there and of course lots cheaper than the UK at the time, but things did change and prices started to go up. We did love Turkey, the countryside was beautiful and the people were great. The main reason we left were the flight times, the car rental prices and the ease of coming to Spain instead of Turkey as it was in the EU then.
Yes, we will do a price comparison video next and hope you enjoy it. Thanks for watching and for your comment. All the best Mike and Yvonne.
@@BetweenTheLakes Looking forward to the comparison 😀 Didim would be too quiet for me, prefer the coastal big city Antalya with all amenities, we've got an Ikea, 5x MediaMarkts, 3x decathlons, even several B&Q's running under the "Koctas" name with same stuff as UK. But with the living costs probably as high as Spain now, and flight distances and high ticket prices, seriously considering a move closer to UK where my kids and their families might visit more often. And you're right about car hire prices, at least double that of Spain. I'm having some older family members here next week and car hire starts from minimum £35 a day with very limited insurance cover. Wish you both all the best 🙂
Hi mike. I’ve just bought the rode wireless go 2s. Do you need a computer to set them up or can you just charge them up and use them?
Thanks mike
Hi Mark, no you don’t need a computer to set them up, they will just work out of the box. But you can modify some settings on your computer using the rode software like internal recording options and dimming the indicator lights.
@@BetweenTheLakescheers mike all the best
Are you here now We love to meet you🌞🌞🌞
Hi Sinobia, we are here for a while so maybe we will bump into you. Where abouts are you ....
Aw, sorry to see you guys are back in the U.K. 30 degree gloom now.🥵 Let’s hope it continues until you next get on the plane. One question, is there something wrong with Yvonne’s foot? I thought I saw her limping a bit but you didn’t mention it. 🤣
Take care both, and I hope Yvonne gets better soon if there is anything hurting her foot… which you obviously didn’t mention Mike. 👍
Hi Kev, yes Yvonne has a broken toe, I think I mentioned it in the video. It's more or less healed up now. Thanks for watching and making us laugh. Best wishes, Mike and Yvonne.
@@BetweenTheLakes Good to hear Yvonne is on the mend. These youngsters recover so quickly don't they. 👍
Hi guys! Great video you sure came home to a heatwave. How long do you need to be back in the Uk before u go back out? Thanks
Hi Clare, We can go back on the 28thAugust, by that time we have saved up enough days to have another 90days using the rolling 180 days. The www.ninety180.com website works it all out for us. It’s a little complicated but we have done a video about it here: czcams.com/video/aa38Q7Ki0JU/video.html
Thanks for watching and for your comment. Best wishes,Mike and Yvonne.
Do u think you will ever live in spain full time? 😊
@@clareboylan6741 Hi Clare, no we are happy with 3months there and 3 months in the UK, it makes life interesting and we get to see our 6 grandkids and the rest of the family especially at Christmas.
Hi, loving the channel. Can I please ask Mike about his drone? Does my operator ID cover me in Spain as well? I want to take my drone to Spain so my husband and I can fly it but someone has said I need to register it with EASA or something in Spain as UK is no longer EU state. I don't want to be fined or get in trouble so wondered how you manage with yours? Thanks
Hi WelcomeinWrexham, looking forward to Bradford City playing Wrexham in League 2 next season, congratulations on your promotion.
Yes, drones, you will need to register in Spain with EASA to fly there. If you go to this site, all the info there is good. www.grupooneair.com/spanish-drones-laws/
I passed my A1 and A3 using the Luxemburg site but you can do it with the Eire site also as they are in English and it makes it a bit easier. It's a similar test to the UK one, the rules are very much the same, 400 ft max height, visual line of sight, no more than 500 metres away. Privacy laws in Spain are a little stricter. More info on that web site.
Thanks for watching and for your inquiry. All the best Mike and Yvonne.
Thanks so much for the help. I’m looking at the Eire site. Last thing I’d want is to go to our home in Spain and get fined or worse! Yeah Wrexham did well and Bradford will be a hard match. It’s crazy here the last two years. The cameras will follow the team again this year as well as I heard there will be a season 3 of welcome to Wrexham. Fingers crossed we both do well! 😊
@@WrexhamAFCfanzone We enjoyed watching the Wrexham series and will watch last seasons when we can.
As for the drone, I have been flying mine now for a long time in Spain and have never been approached by anyone either public or police, but as I said, I fly when its quiet and I know I won't disturb or upset anyone, very low key and not too low unless it's just for us two out in the open countryside. I make sure I carry all my paperwork and I have ID cards with registration numbers etc to show any interested parties. Make sure you have the id numbers on your drone as well. Have a look at joining fpvuk.org/ for their public liability insurance which covers you for Europe at only 19.99 per year plus other benefits. All the best Mike and Yvonne.
Brilliant advice, thanks so much for taking the time. I do have my uK operator ID and flyer ID on my drone so will add the other one when I get it too. I have the Dji refresh plan but will get the third party insurance you suggested too. I did my first flight last night which went well, until my husband panicked it wasn’t landing! 😂 He thought it would land like a plane lol not vertically. I have always been a keen photographer but decided to branch out and get a GoPro and drone. We haven’t been to our house in Spain yet since buying it but will go in September so plenty of time for me to practice with the drone and video editing. I think the next season of welcome to Wrexham is in august. Your drone work in Spain is always stunning and inspired me to get into it myself so thanks 😃
Should I cancel my Spain trip for England now? 4 years of Duolingo down the drain.
Hi Rob, now there's a thought, swapping the sandy blue flag beaches of the Costa Blanca for the dark satanic mills of Cleckheaton......mmmm...lol
Thanks for watching. Best wishes, Mike and Yvonne.
Don’t show your house number etc, please, carry Yvonne’s bag while she’s invalided, not camera
Hi Tom, thanks for watching and your advice. Best wishes, Mike and Yvonne.
I do hope you realise a new ruling has come in while you were away, you can return to spain the following day providing you are wearing a disguise🥸😎🤣
Hi Graham, that would be awesome, but we might need new passports to pull it off....lol.
Thanks for watching. All the best Mike and Yvonne.