Mike Hudson
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Can I Leave the UK in my Campervan? – post-pandemic/Brexit
How easy is it to leave the UK right now by campervan? In this video you'll get a glimpse of how I left the UK in my van, to travel to Sweden. Along the way I try to make sense of all the post-pandemic and post-Brexit restrictions; conflicting, confusing and seemingly illogical information and regulations.
I called the dutch, German, British and Swedish embassy. I called the ferry operators. I called the police. I called the tourist boards. Yet I still couldn't get consistent information. The only way I could find the information I wanted was to go and see for myself. That's what this video is about. And this is how I want to live my life.
I hope this gives you some hope if you're thinking of leaving the UK by van in these times. I wish everyone freedom and good health 🙂
Thanks for watching 🙏
Disclaimer: just to make it clear, I respect the necessary regulations and exercise caution regarding the spread of Covid.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR DREAM VAN HOME (ebook):
vandogtraveller.com/van-conversion-book-from-van-to-home/
HOW TO LIVE THE LIFE (book):
amzn.to/3l1jt2u
FOLLOW:
vandogtraveller.com
vandogtraveller
Music in this video: www.epidemicsound.com/track/WCJw7ewL0d/
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Rebuilding my van conversion - after welding repairs
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I dismantled my whole van just to get a bit of welding done in the floor. I thought it would be a good opportunity to film the whole process of putting it all back together 00:00 - Rebuilding my camper van conversion 00:28 - Fit the sub-floor 00:35 - Lay the vinyl 00:45 - Insulation 01:09 - Shower tray 01:27 - Bathroom enclosure stud frame 02:14 - Bathroom wallboards 02:42 - Toilet 02:58 - Bath...
Dismantling my entire van home
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See the related blog post: vandogtraveller.com/dismantling-my-entire-van-home/ From Van to Home (full van conversion guide): vandogtraveller.com/van-conversion-book-from-van-to-home/#top Live (and travel) in your van-home: vandogtraveller.com/live-and-travel-in-a-van-book/
A glacier in Norway
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See the photos and location on the Vandog blog: vandogtraveller.com/kjenndalen-glacier-by-campervan/ Make a van your home: vandogtraveller.com/van-conversion-book-from-van-to-home/#top Live and travel in a van: vandogtraveller.com/live-and-travel-in-a-van-book/
Hiking The Pulpit Rock in Norway - by campervan and foot
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Hiking The Pulpit Rock in Norway - by campervan and foot
Driving to Norway in my van ... and maybe to the Arctic Circle?
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Driving to Norway in my van ... and maybe to the Arctic Circle?
Making the van run nice - and preparing it for Norway!
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Making the van run nice - and preparing it for Norway!
Europe's biggest volcano - by van and foot
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Europe's biggest volcano - by van and foot
Announcement: here's what I've been working on
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Announcement: here's what I've been working on
The van broke down. Here's what I did
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The van broke down. Here's what I did
Vanlife: playing music of West Africa - drums and balafon
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Vanlife: playing music of West Africa - drums and balafon
Jumping out of a plane at 14000ft with Chris, a follower of the blog
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Jumping out of a plane at 14000ft with Chris, a follower of the blog
Living in a van - Christmas breakfast
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Living in a van - Christmas breakfast
Setting off in my van from the UK to Spain - a 4 minute montage
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Setting off in my van from the UK to Spain - a 4 minute montage
Epidavros theatre acoustics - stamping and clapping hands
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Epidavros theatre acoustics - stamping and clapping hands
From van to home in 5 months...
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From van to home in 5 months...
living in a van - a 90 second timelapse
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living in a van - a 90 second timelapse
vanlife - some music for spring time
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vanlife - some music for spring time
Living in a van - lunch time at mine
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Living in a van - lunch time at mine
river surfing in munich
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river surfing in munich
Naomi, Dont Move!!
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Naomi, Dont Move!!
Altera DE2 Game
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Altera DE2 Game
FPGA audio effects processor
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FPGA audio effects processor
Rate the landing
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Rate the landing
How not to fly a kite - FAIL
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How not to fly a kite - FAIL
Naomi cooks an omelette
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Naomi cooks an omelette
Engine Bicycle 58cc motorised bike
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Engine Bicycle 58cc motorised bike
Crazy Chinook Helicoptor Flyby
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Crazy Chinook Helicoptor Flyby
Slack line after a few weeks
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Slack line after a few weeks
Trying out my homemade bed of nails
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Trying out my homemade bed of nails

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @dandidoo1393
    @dandidoo1393 2 місяці тому

    17 years ago

  • @trishpowers3921
    @trishpowers3921 3 місяці тому

    I’m doing this. I bought your one book a long time ago. i wanted to imagine this. But now my time is right. I’m gonna do it. Thank you for your videos, your books. Bless your VanDogTraveler Bless you.

  • @faisalahmed3902
    @faisalahmed3902 5 місяців тому

    where is naomi

  • @Qaz375
    @Qaz375 5 місяців тому

    In a LDV 👌

  • @rich8607
    @rich8607 5 місяців тому

    So incredibly beautiful. Thanks for sharing

  • @tornado84125
    @tornado84125 5 місяців тому

    Beautiful. What tyres are you running? Love the ldv

  • @WASSIM-BENYAMINA
    @WASSIM-BENYAMINA 6 місяців тому

    A-10: Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt ❎ NAOMI: Get it off get it off get it off ✅ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @tornado84125
    @tornado84125 7 місяців тому

    Convoy still going strong? Love those buses

  • @roytalmich2956
    @roytalmich2956 9 місяців тому

    Looks like you haven't posted in awhile. I'm curious what you're doing now? Any updates?

  • @hoangtuan7945
    @hoangtuan7945 9 місяців тому

    I know it's been a very long time but was Naomi filming this ? Where's she now, is she ok ?

  • @smguk2412
    @smguk2412 Рік тому

    Another EU loving Kunt

  • @convoymaloney
    @convoymaloney Рік тому

    Blank the EGR valve off.

  • @squadmeta
    @squadmeta Рік тому

    Deserves as many views as the Chinook vid tbh. Classic.

  • @ss-vf2ks
    @ss-vf2ks Рік тому

    16 year ago lmao

  • @hoangtuan7945
    @hoangtuan7945 Рік тому

    I've been watching your channel for 12 years and I really admire your work. May I ask you where Naomi is now ? We all miss her so much

    • @ironman98
      @ironman98 Рік тому

      Ha! I see we're all here from the old Chinook video from like 10 years ago, all wondering the same thing. Happened to those two exactly?

  • @Misskiff
    @Misskiff 2 роки тому

    I’m building a van 🚐 modaaaa truckkkaaa and I bought your book 📚🙌🏼🙌🏼👏👏👏 thank you love your vibe

  • @Misskiff
    @Misskiff 2 роки тому

    Haha let me read this again 😂 General rule 😂

  • @monamurphy2369
    @monamurphy2369 2 роки тому

    i love it

  • @dontmissthelittlethings
    @dontmissthelittlethings 2 роки тому

    That watch, I have one like it.

  • @adcashmo
    @adcashmo 2 роки тому

    Nice 1.....where there's a will

  • @zeez9053
    @zeez9053 2 роки тому

    Feel -you bro it’s torture being on this island

  • @SR_Medical
    @SR_Medical 2 роки тому

    15 years ago

  • @everydaynamaste7264
    @everydaynamaste7264 2 роки тому

    I feel like im on a really cool trip watching this video lol

  • @MrDudumassa
    @MrDudumassa 2 роки тому

    great phaser

  • @golgumbazguide...4113
    @golgumbazguide...4113 2 роки тому

    Welcome to Golgumbaz 2021

  • @shadwelthames9416
    @shadwelthames9416 2 роки тому

    "Brexit, why?". Exactly.

  • @HempThief
    @HempThief 2 роки тому

    you are a legend

  • @maxoakley7157
    @maxoakley7157 2 роки тому

    Great video, so cool to see your improvement!!

  • @Mike-01234
    @Mike-01234 2 роки тому

    Brixit was a result of social media algorithms which spread lies so these companies could make profits.

  • @RiceNinja93
    @RiceNinja93 2 роки тому

    Epic video. I just finished the 1st book. I finished the 2nd book just before. Thanks for being my guide. Once this contract is over I'm going back to the UK to pass my driving test and buy a van. Then make it my home and go places, take photos.

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      Oh thank you for buying my books! I'm glad they helped. Best of luck with your plans. I like how you say 'to PASS' your driving test and not just to ... take it :-)

  • @johnboy9510
    @johnboy9510 2 роки тому

    Great video can’t wait to watch the next one. Can I ask do you have any links to the city of Hull? I’m shore I remember the local newspaper writing an article about you a good few years ago?

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      Yeah wow that was a while ago now. I grew up in Hull yeah, and was in the Hull Daily Mail :-)

  • @nicolapuglisi3894
    @nicolapuglisi3894 2 роки тому

    Hey man, this is not regarding the video. I bought your van guide about 6months ago but i lost the pdf file, would you be able to send it to me again?

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      Sure, just send me an email and let me know what email address you used to buy and I'll send you a fresh download :-) and thank you for buying my ebook

    • @nicolapuglisi3894
      @nicolapuglisi3894 2 роки тому

      @@MikeHudsontek i send an email couple of weeks ago but i didnt recieve any reply, could you post your email please Thanks great fan, love your work

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      @@nicolapuglisi3894 Sorry about that, I can now see it - got buried in my blog newsletter reply. I appreciate your patience and trust! I've created a new order and you'll have the new download link immediately in your email. I'm here to help so let me know if you have any further issues Best regards and thank you for supporting me :-)

    • @nicolapuglisi3894
      @nicolapuglisi3894 2 роки тому

      @@MikeHudsontek thank youuuuu

  • @bcmaughan
    @bcmaughan 2 роки тому

    Funny I was just driving on the M5 at night last night and ft exactly as you described. Trapped. I just wanted to drive and drive. We want to leave the UK in our van too. I'd be very interested if you'd share whether you were jabbed or not as being unjabbed appears to be a massive hurdle from what I've read about various European countries - particularly Germany? Great video and exactly sums up the way we're feeling.

  • @leslieturner8260
    @leslieturner8260 2 роки тому

    Hi curious did you have jab passport. cheers Les

  • @andrewmuirhead86
    @andrewmuirhead86 2 роки тому

    What a brilliant video

  • @robm7543
    @robm7543 2 роки тому

    That was good! Enjoy your time in Sweden!

  • @johnattrill371
    @johnattrill371 2 роки тому

    Good for you. I can relate to this video myself.

  • @DodgeDitchburn
    @DodgeDitchburn 2 роки тому

    Congrats on making it dude! Isn't it mad how what is written online can be taken in 30 different ways! Enjoy!

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      Thanks yeah and it's mad how the authorities all have different information. I was told by border control in one country that 'the embassy knows nothing' and not to use them for travel information. Weird hey

    • @DodgeDitchburn
      @DodgeDitchburn 2 роки тому

      @@MikeHudsontek haha 🤣🤣 speaks volumes of our country doesn't it!

  •  2 роки тому

    Hey man! I hope you're good. So a few years ago I was looking for a van to live in after the breakdown of an 8 year relationship and found your guide on the LDV and ended up picking myself up a pilot and turning it into a home using your guide! I lived in it for 2 years and then COVID came and I moved into a house with my sister to earn some money and save. Well I just found myself a high top roof (imagine finding one of those for a 30 year old pilot! They were rare in the 90s) so I am in the process of fitting the high top roof to my bus. That means I can fit a shower room! It's going to be a game changer for when I move back in. Anyway, I'm glad to see you're making proper length videos as last time I checked you only had a few short ones posted. Peace out brother and thanks for the help and inspiration ✌️✌️✌️☯️ ua-cam.com/video/vTh17mOcvtg/v-deo.html

  • @olofsweden
    @olofsweden 2 роки тому

    Welcome to Sweden Mike! Hope you will enjoy it and stay for ever! It would be very cool to meet up with you. My own vanbuild will start in a few years, but it will be an electric van! And it will have a huge solarsystem, so that I (if needed) can charge up slowly from my own solar...

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      Thank you Olof! I'm not sure about the winter though :-/ good luck with your build and travels

  • @mad-b264
    @mad-b264 2 роки тому

    Yeah this is sad bro, I would love to go to Amsterdam reasons being not just for peace, But i couldnt afford to travel, Plus i suffer CPTSD, My panic mode is all over the place lets just say, I havent left this Island for about 18 years, An that was just belgium booze an ciggie run, An Paris disney land around 17 years ago, Apart from that i been stuck on this Island only dreaming of having enough money, The CPTSD, Depression an anxiety have had huge impact on how i lived my life, Almost lost the will to even go out on my electric monster scooter, Coz of the worry the police will just stop me an take it off me is messing my head up while i journey, Since i seen police taking xiomi scooters off people it has had a knock on effect with the CPTSD i suffer, I cant use public transport coz of the CPTSD, An have no licence so i have to stay in not being able to travel very far, Nothing round here, Mountains are a bit of a treck to walk, So i bought a bafang mid motor for my carerra hellcat mountain bike, Cant wait to get it delivered an fit it, Can finally do the Taff trail, Right up to Brecon Beacons, An escape to the welsh mountains with my bag of erbz an camera, Might be able to grab the last days of Autumn an animals stocking up for winter, Anyone got a tent they can recommend for a good price, Easy to put up an carry by anychance, There so many diff tents im confused on what is the best for carrying on a mountain bike?? Really is looking foward to embracing nature, These council estates become a drain on your soul, I know understand why people actually sell up an buy a Campa van, I watched a few VanLife episodes, Dude was a DJ living the high life, Now lives in a van where ever he feels, I read aswell the UK are banning Vans from just parking up where ever they like, Was taken back, Actually shocked when i found out lorry drivers got pay to park up an sleepin a lay by, Now thats full on capitolism, Capitolsm is strangling this planet slowley, When a few is responsible for killing nature an polluting for the millions for pure profits, People like Musk an Bezoz are not visionaries inventors, Elon musk did not invent the electric car, That happened over 100 years ago, Musk just capitolised on forgotten technology, Like Rick Simpson never invented RSO, He even admits that tho, lol.... I really do yearn for a place like Blue mountains in Jamiaca, I can be left alone to grow my erbz in peace, Here in the UK laws dictate how we can live our lifes, Take cannabis, Gov gives a licence to british sugar to grow as much cannabis as possible, But a person like me who suffers CPTSD, Is not allowed to grow a few little plants for myself, Even tho i use cannabis for CPTSD, It proper sucks suffering CPTSD by the way, It really do, But yeah far too many laws govern our lifes, Slowly i can see people getting fed up, An people will just do what they wants, Its sad tho coz i fear being arrested i no longer grow coz i actually was arrested, I cant afford 400-500 qiud a month for medical cannabis, So im stuck suffering with nightmares an dissasciation, I dont speak to nobody no more, At least i got my sim rig to escape for few hours on Assetto Corsa Competizione, An the electric motor coming, Still tho a weekend away is far from being reality at the moment, While people like Rab get 6 grand a day holidays, His people suffer, I can never understand why people voted for that, I never even knew holidays could even be that expensive, But yeah the UK is not a good place right about now, I dont blame you wanting to escape too stunning Switzerland, I admire you getting up an actually doing it, I bet Switzerland got no shortage of petrol, lol.....

  • @PompeyBoy66
    @PompeyBoy66 2 роки тому

    You're books are both great. Thanks.

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      Thank you! glad they helped, you're most welcome

  • @PompeyBoy66
    @PompeyBoy66 2 роки тому

    Bought both your books and am planning my luton camper.

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      Thank you! I'm happy for your plans, best of luck :-)

  • @ChrisGPS
    @ChrisGPS 2 роки тому

    I’ve missed your videos. Lovely to see you on the road again. Back in the Van!

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      Thanks haha, I've been in my van all this time, just sort of lying low really on some nice land. But it feels so good to be back on the road. The only thing is the non-EU citizen 3 month limit etc. Which I hope might change at some point, or there's some way around

    • @ChrisGPS
      @ChrisGPS 2 роки тому

      @@MikeHudsontek Your first book inspired me to believe in myself and change my life. Thank you. x

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      @@ChrisGPS That's amazing, congratulations. Gotta believe :-)

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      And you're totally welcome

  • @tornado84125
    @tornado84125 2 роки тому

    Brexit.... why.... get me out of the UK too! Good luck man

  • @Leie125
    @Leie125 2 роки тому

    haha, as a Dutch native who relocated to the UK (Scotland) in Dec 2020 I totally felt that "BREXIT why!?!!" sigh you let out. I have done one of those hundreds of times! Brexit has been such a pain in my butt, despite arriving just before the deadline. Enjoy Sweden!

    • @MikeHudsontek
      @MikeHudsontek 2 роки тому

      I'm sorry you also felt that. Yeah it's a horrible feeling. Although Scotland is probably a good option right now and I hope it's/they're treating you well :-)

  • @paulwright5064
    @paulwright5064 2 роки тому

    Great video Dude, you done a good job 🤘

  • @PompeyBoy66
    @PompeyBoy66 2 роки тому

    Just bought your book. My dad converted a Morris van into a camper and took us to France and Spain on a 5 week trip twice in the 70s. Might start weekending in a camper next year, once I change my care job and start getting every weekend off.

  • @paulclaydon9360
    @paulclaydon9360 2 роки тому

    I just came back from driving to the artic circle via ferry to Malmö and drove from there try that next time Excellent for wild camping everything at your disposal Where is the rest of the video was interested in watching it ?

  • @maxoakley7157
    @maxoakley7157 2 роки тому

    Recently seen your videos, love your style! Personal and your no fat style of editing, (reminds me of Casey N ). You have inspired me to start planning my adventure van 😊