after almost three years of full-time travel through Asia carrying almost everything we
own on our backs it's time for a new big purchase that will change everything we're buying a
van our first home together who just received a 20 minute video from the owner of this pan
and it looks incredible
oh my God
can I write something back yeah I've never seen anything like it I've been keeping my
eyes on vans pretty much daily now so I've been checking into any new ones any new ones
and I'm like oh this one's nice and now that one's sold and this one's nice and but it's
not got this it's not got that this one looks too good to be true yeah we nearly we're gonna
put deposit down on another one but it got bought by someone yeah yesterday so this one
looks very exciting so I think I'm shaking I'm actually shaking this could be the one
in so good no I'm getting emotional it looks so good I would love for that to be our home
we haven't had a hotel it looks very homely it looks so homely and there's like tiny little
touches of like oh I'm like it's like it was it was it was like somebody asked oh what
would you want and I'm like oh I would like this but like is that a little bit much and
they're like no no I got you but that's already there I I wanna I wanna ask him to put a deposit
down give me give me 10 minutes five five minutes okay okay okay be quick before we
even think of putting down a deposit on this van let's write a contract make sure it has
an mot and maybe watch this video over once more can we ask him to have it can we ask
him to have it can we ask him to have it can we can we are you saying yes [Music] okay
um
freaking out we would love to buy it we can put on a deposit right now can we go ahead
can we go ahead with this is that Sunday yeah send it oh I'm gonna throw up
okay so now we need to sit with ice in our stomachs until he responds because we're currently
in South Korea right now we're currently in South Korea and he said that there was somebody
viewing the van today now the time difference is on our side because it means that we managed
to text him when it was early morning for him we sat on it all day and just waited and
waited and waited and waited and wait and we're like now it's like 5 p.m let's send
him a message I have never seen a van this nice I literally I'm going to cry for weeks
if he says no right now let's hope he doesn't say no he's online oh he's offline again oh
I don't know what made it better just how nice it looked or like everything that it's
got and the price is good it's got solo it's got solar it's got a little stem for champagne
glasses
it's so nice typing
okay Dylan no worries is all he said
it's not it's not happened yet we haven't left the deposit yet oh my God what if we
what if we drive something he said okay yeah
[Music] this is like the officially the biggest purchase we've ever made if we get it most
expensive thing we've ever bought but also the most probably the biggest in size but
also like the most resonant thing we've ever bought I don't even know if it makes sense
resonance like the most important thing we've ever purchased yeah an actual place to live
in an actual house well it's not a house it's a house on Wheels oh my gosh
we are just about to pay our 20 deposit for this van to James now we won't this is okay
this is a huge sum of money in our books yeah this is us committing purchasing this van
and him saying yeah you can have it you ready yes okay three two one oh wait
if you would press the dictionary or something we both pressed and it made something crazy
verify the payments okay because it's it's not five pounds
more oh
I can't believe it I can't believe it I cannot can't wait to show it to you guys to show
you just what we get during the van show you whales yeah okay Europe I think this van is
Gonna Go Far hopefully yeah yeah hopefully no I mean we're not just gonna good morning
guys well today I'm in Cardiff Central Station because I'm going to Newton Abbas which is
in Southern England to go and pick up our brand new van me and Adriana have not stopped
talking about this van for the past I don't know three weeks since we tried to put a deposit
down on this van while we were in South Korea but you may be wondering where's Adriana well
Adriana is in Sweden because her passport is running out so she's getting a new passport
she's gonna be coming back in about a week and a half so I've got to do this all by myself
today got to catch a train in about 10 minutes let's go
now you're probably thinking why are you getting a train from Cardiff when you're from North
Wales well actually my brother lives in Cardiff and that's where most of mine and Adriana's
belongings are right now so I've been there picking up my stuff uh and then getting ready
to come down to Newton Abbott and then tonight after picking up the van I'm having to drive
the huge van it is really big from Newton Abbott up to North Wales which is gonna be
on a good day about a six hour drive in a van that probably can't go much over 60 miles
per hour we'll see how it goes
good morning morning wonderful thank you
the person that we're buying with couldn't have been a nicer person you know you want
to buy a van from someone that you know has loved the bat and I can tell by the images
and by the 25 minute video incentives that he absolutely loved or loves this man 100
sure why he's selling it maybe he's upgrading but um such a nice guy and actually can't
wait to meet him um I've been asking him loads of questions about you know tax Insurance
what do I need for the van and he's been so helpful over WhatsApp and um yeah he's gonna
even pick me up from the station he wanted the van to go to someone that's gonna take
it around you know that's not just sound someone's trying way for 10 months out of the year we're
going to be using this van for probably most of the year and we hopefully will be taking
it around definitely the UK to begin with probably Wales first because I'm from where
else and I love Wales and I haven't really explored Wales properly myself yet and then
the rest of the UK and then when it gets a bit colder in the UK we'll move over to Europe
then now he will be able to see all those videos of his Pride and Glory this van I wonder
if it's got a name [Music] all right Syria just gotta find the exit now find James trying
to spot the van to the window just so I know where to go it's very hard to miss it it's
pretty big this is like a huge chapter in our real life lives but also in sort of the
YouTube life I feel like we're gonna be able to do so many insane videos here crazy amazing
drone shots you know just Scenic places in Wales and UK and Europe especially walesville
there it is
first sighting whoa it's massive
yes I'm so excited I've just been telling everyone about you and just how amazing this
van is wow I think it's posturing level there it looks awesome in person yeah well guys
here it is it called a name um it was just called big gray big gray yeah and then my
girlfriend at the time decided to call it Christian okay for Christian Gray okay oh
God no we're not calling it yeah oh wow okay cool shall we uh yeah do you want to drive
it um or do you want to drive it down you drive it out of here okay I don't know these
roads so I don't trust myself
very quiet for a diesel yeah they're pretty good wow here we go nope I look never driven
anything like this before I've driven a 4x4 uh like a truck yeah yeah that's maybe the
biggest thing I've ever driven yeah it took me a while to get used to it biggest thing
I can say is that you need to turn later because you'll take out like the side of things yeah
like a bus yeah we have not stopped talking about it the last time I've ever seen your
video that you sent yeah
yeah and seeing how excited she was yeah she lit she was crying we'd look to some other
ones and we were like trying to uh you know see if we can come very well I'll put it down
deposit but it kept selling even though the other one sold this one was the nicest one
that we looked at okay and that fits exactly what you know what we're looking for yeah
James is now driving us about 10 minutes down the road so we can have a proper look after
all I haven't even seen the van properly yet let's hope it's as good as it looks in the
photos [Music]
all right let's give you a proper shot of big gray here he is [Music]
[Music] exactly like the photos oh [Applause] my God so nice do you mind me asking why are
you selling it and basically I lived in it for two years yeah um pretty much at the moment
I'd move back in my parents because my dad's got cancer so move back into care for them
uh and so I just don't use it as much and I thought yeah it's quite a lot of money sat
there that's not really doing anything true so yeah it was it was really hard to uh to
sell it to decide to sell it yeah I kept it off for months I was going to sell it in January
and I was like oh I just tidy up a few bits you know to sell it yeah and that took me
four or five months to do you have a little week's worth of work because I didn't really
want to sell it and you did it all up yourself so yeah I did everything from scratch and
bought it as a plain white panel van he just had it sat in a yard and it had gone a bit
Rusty on the surface took a few steps back and I was debating with this buyer and then
I just had this moment where I looked at it and like saw what it could be like okay yeah
and then went no that's it I gotta have it and then I spent a year doing it up well two
years um living in it working like obviously going to Europe but covered stopped that oh
yeah when we could open up I kind of you know we were already doing a bit of the UK James
now gives me a proper tour of the van showing me all the technical important stuff just
to make sure we don't blow this thing up when we start using it we'll show you a full tour
of the van in a separate video Once Adriana has had a chance to decorate the inside but
to be honest with you guys everything is even better than I expected and I love it so much
that I'm gonna finalize the purchase without even calling Adriana yeah there you go perfect
well thank you very much thanks again hope you enjoy it literally can't wait I'm just
glad it's getting to you guys really yeah okay get some good use thank you so much thank
you so much enjoy man thank you all right time to give Adriana a call
hello hi how are you good I just saw a payment go through so yeah bought it yeah I'm sitting
in it so nice oh my gosh yeah it's so nice oh look here you go oh my God that looks so
good
bye love you bye
okay so we try to drive this thing
[Music] gonna go into first gear foreign
I've just walked around the whole van I can't see where to put the diesel in this is gonna
be a long six hours