Driving to Portugal | Adventurous, but costly!
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- čas přidán 23. 03. 2024
- Ever wondered how much it costs to drive down to Portugal from the UK? Worry not as the answer is here! It was time again to go and visit our off-grid quinta in Portugal, this time we drove down and here's how it went!
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Doing this from Scotland in June!!
If you like road trips, you'll love it 😊 We can't wait to drive down again, but we are contemplating trying the ferry next time.
WELCOME TO MY COUNTRY. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, PLEASE CONTINUE
Hi Antonio! Thank you very much, it is a wonderful place and we're excited about having a place of our own there 😊
Welcome to my country.
Love your sense of humour 😂
What sense of humour, I'm deadly serious 😜 Thanks and glad you enjoyed the video!
Snoring cat and Mcdonalds down the North pole LOL you made me smile ;) By the way we got the same marshmallow BBQ sticks !!! Andrius got them from BP petrol station !!! was lovely to meet you and thank you for your gifts to us !!!! xxx see you soon vizinhos xxxx
We're glad it made you smile 😁 Next time we'll have a marshmallow meet-up amigos!
Lov your videos from Canada 🇨🇦 🍁
Thanks ... but we've never been to Canada 😂
Welcome back, I missed the updates on the Portugal project.
I hope everything was still there how you left it.
Please keep us informed on your plans and take care!
Hi Daan! Thanks!
Nothing happened to our tools and there were no obvious signs that anyone tried to get inside of either of the barns, but things have definitely changed a bit, more on that in the coming videos 😊
We have plenty of plans for the land, but we're at the slow end of the proces at the moment. We'll definitely keep everyone updated through vlogs so bare with us 😉
Santander Ferry operates a *50% discount for 2nd homes. More relaxing. *Off season only!
Ooo... That's interesting, didn't know that. Thanks for sharing! Do you know if you need a discount code or is it just that their prices are so much lower off-season? We tend to travel off-season anyway.
Thank you for the costs. I have been considering doing this twice a year utilising the Schenghen travel allowance. But I am now thinking it may be cheaper to fly with a budget airline and hire a car or take the train. Seems you did not have any issues importing your tools and other items, but if you did it could have got even more expensive.
It very much depends on how long you're going over for 😊 For a week, fly and hire definitely. If you're going over for a month or want to cross borders, go for a road trip, bringing your own car starts to make more sense. One option to consider is using a ferry to Spain instead of driving through France. That alone will save on a night's accommodation (if applicable), a tank and a half or two of fuel and about £130 or so in French tolls. A ferry is roughly the same cost also as the Eurotunnel roughly speaking.
@@DJAAdventures Thank you for your reply. I was imagining the ferry from Portsmouth or Plymouth to Santander being several hundred pounds, (as much as £500) depending on the time of year, which is why most people drive via northern France.
Maybe in August, but even then I doubt it would be quite that much (also depending on the quality of the cabin you book). Stating the obvious here, but the time of the year you travel makes a big difference to the cost of a ferry or Eurotunel crossing. Based on the limited comparison research we did on the way, I would expect the ferry to come out cheaper than driving all the way most of the time and also quicker as I think the ferries to Spain are overnight.
Driving is a totally different experience than flying, and if you not done it before and you like driving, I would really recommend it is worth a higher cost, in my opinion 👍👌
@@danutastokrotka556 I will drive certainly, as there will be items that I wish to transport. But utilising my Scheghen visa I can only spend 180 days a year in Portugal. I will want to come and go, so flying budget airline at £100.00 return UK to Portugal rather than £1200 return drive three or four times a year, makes financial sense. For that money I can buy a local car and keep it fat my Portugal home to use when I am there.
Could you tell me what 4g camera you use please?. I've been looking at the cheep chinese ones, but not sure if they support bands 1,8,20 which seem most common in Portugal regardless of whether MEO, NOS or Vodafone are used?
It's made by K&F Concepts and comes with a SIM card that is supposed to connect to the best provider in the area where you use it so it's not for a specific provider. We ordered and had it delivered to the UK but it's being used in Portugal. Have a look at a previous vlog if you want to see what it looks like, I think the one called a few jobs on our farm or something like that shows us putting it up. It will also feature briefly in the next vlog we'll be uploading. Hope that helps 👍
Please explain better the stickers on the back lights of the car. I did not understand it very well, and I m driving to Portugal soon. Thanks
Sure, you don't need any stickers on the back lights, only on the front. Car headlights (front) are calibrated to light up the road and sights to the side of the road which in the UK are to the left. When you drive in mainland europe, to the left you will have oncoming traffic and as such the light that is meant to light up signs in the UK will shine straight into the eyes of oncoming traffic. That's why you need to buy those stickers and put them in the correct place on your headlamps. The stickers should come with a guide telling you where to stick them based on what car you have. Order some online and read the leaflet in advance if you can, if not you can buy them at Eurotunnel or maybe on a ferry if that's what you go for.
@@DJAAdventures Thank you very much. I'll go on the ferry to Santander.
I think that's what most people do, but I dread my sea sickness. I think we'll try it next time we drive though. Hope the journey goes smooth for you!
"quality accomodation in France" :D
Squeek, squeek ... no mugs included 😜
Imagine the same journey in an EV? You'd be suffering from PTSD by the time you arrived.
That depends and I definitely wouldn't mind doing it in an EV. I'm not sure if you have, but if you look at our other videos you'll see that my wife and I drove the NC500 in Scotland (from Cheshire) in an EV without any issues at all. There's a tool for every job and not every tool suits every user. An EV may not be the right type of car for you for a journey like this but if I had more time I would have actually preferred my EV over the Diesel. The journey would have taken a bit longer, but it would have been more comfortable without the diesel sound in the background the whole way.
No problem whatsoever if taking three days for the journey. I hope you haven’t fallen for the negativity. There’s a great video about a man who drove East to West from coast to coast across Canada in 72 hours. You ought to watch it, you might learn something.
Hi David! Every journey has a purpose and a set of conditions. We wanted to take it easy as it was the first time we've done this type of road trip. It was pretty easy over three days but we decided that if we were to drive all the way again we'd do it slightly differently and try to get it done in two which I think can also be done quite comfortably. We also drove pretty much the whole time at leas than the speed limit as we wanted to enjoy the drive, talk and enjoy the changing scenery 😊👍
@@DJAAdventuresEveryone's different - to me the sound of an internal combustion engine and transmission is like taking a friend along for the ride.....I'd really miss it in an EV.
@robertp.wainman4094 I know what you mean and I agree in many ways. Six, eight or twelve cylinders sound very nice, don't have to work hard at motorway speeds and settle into a nice gentle rumble in the background. 1.6 litre 4 cylinder diesel not so much though 😉
Avoid toil roads
That would definitely save some money, especially in France. The trade off then is the speed and convenience of course because the alternative roads are much slower.
I really found your humour disagreeable. You made your journey far more expensive than necessary by travelling on the peages. Using the N roads would have save you a lot of money for about an extra hour’s driving a day. As for the hotel, why were you so rude about it? You obviously chose it knowing what it was. It will have been cheaper and cleaner than anything similar in the U.K. if you had wanted luxury why didn’t you chose and pay for luxury? You touched Spain? Isn’t it over 400 minimum miles from the French border to Portugal? I won’t be subscribing.