Hey, my name is Konrad. And my name is Jule. And we are now here in
Croatia rock climbing. And we live in our van, that's Beleau here behind us. The decision-making
process was, for me, a longer one because I was dreaming of it for three
years then I met Jule and we were a perfect team in the mountains. I just
came up one day with the idea to go ask her if she wants to move with me into a
van and she was like, "yeah." We want to primarily do sports in the mountain so
we want to do mountain sports, we want to go rock climbing and we want to film
those adventures. The next step was how do we make the money to do this and
going into the van was a decision where you really reduce the money you need.
This van was the first van we looked at. We saw it, it was perfect. We wanted
exactly this chassis with this engine and yeah we decided to go for it. We
started the next day we just slept two hours and the next day we started building it.
It was really seven weeks of full-time normal job evening shifts until the night and
on the weekend so it was just working, eating, van building.
Now we are standing in the front of our Baleau. It's a Renault Master II from the year 2001 and it has a
2.8 liters machine inside of it so it tracks long and it's pretty economical
so we burn 8 litres of diesel in 100 kilometers. On the top we have 200 watt
of solar power and it's charging a 120 amp hours battery and it's also
connected with the first battery so it can be charged when we are driving.
Professional bikes so no we just actually use it for driving around cities when we
don't want to move the vehicle, the car, and here is a fifth tire if something
goes wrong. Here we have a lot of storage for our climbing equipment and
snowboarding equipment and the best addition to this bus, this big draw, all
our climbing gear. I think we have seven ropes inside here you can
pull this thing out. It doubles out as a bar or a lounge and underneath it's a
very cool feature for us for climbers so it's hard to stay fit on your fingers on
a trip especially in the winter. It's fixed with
this screw and I think then it is three and a half meters high so yeah you can do
big moves and have a lot of space to climb on this.
So we have 190 centimeters in the width. Through that we can store our skis and
snowboards perfectly so a lot of space to work with. Also found a small old
switch from my dad's house and installed that here so we have also a LED light here.
Welcome to the inside of Beleau.
This is our hygiene bathroom and we also have some fruit in this basket so
they don't get hurt while driving because everything moves all the time
you need to think a bit different when storing your stuff when you're living in
a van. So we have a sink. We're very happy to have it. This pump is with
electricity which is very good. We had one manual pump before, but we're so
happy that we switched to this one and the water comes from here. This is our
tank and it's 22 litres. We have this one in the front which is fresh water and
this one in the back this is yeah the used water. And let's talk about the
heater. As we are planning to go to Georgia and very cold areas and also
live in here in winter, we need a heater. And it's from Planar a company from
Munich. It has two kilowatt and I think it needs about half a liter
diesel per hour and this is very little so we love this one. With the kitchen we
have this beautiful wooden plate which is very nice for working and it's also a
nice living space but when it comes to cooking we have this stove here. It's
powered by gasoline which is very good because it doesn't need very much
gasoline. It's very hot and you have two plates. Where we stuff the stove there is
also a lot of food and there's other stuff and here we have a safe and this was
really important for us because we have our computer always with us and we are
sometimes in areas we don't know what's going on so it was very important for us
to have this the safe here. We have here all the camera stuff and
the electricity stuff because we are filming and when we are going into the
mountains our camera is always with us so we need to charge this. These are the
chargers for the cameras and yeah all that stuff is in here.
Here we can see how much voltages on the battery and we have here a normal 220
volt. Here we have the inverter for this plug and the most important and best
feature is the dimmer so when you put on the lights you can make them very
bright and in the evening you can dim them down, it's very good.
We are climbers and we need a lot of books because we need to know in which
area we are, where the mountains are, where the tracks are, where the climbing
spots are and a bookshelf was, for us, a very important important thing to have. Here's
our bed. We sleep like this which is yeah kind of un-normal I guess for most of
the busses but we have this isolation here which is not that broad so we have
186 centimeters which is just enough. And here is, we really had to reduce our
clothing because this is all the clothing Konrad has and this is all the
clothing I have so this is not very much, but all the jackets and the warm stuff
we carry over here and there's also a lot of space and we are glad that we
can use this so good here. Often you want to eat in the bus and this makes kind of
an atmosphere feel like, like in a kitchen or something. We don't have a fan.
We have this hatch here. You can open it for ventilation. We decided to have
this instead of a fan because we wanted some daylight in here. Here's the
fridge and it's almost 40 litres so it's big enough for us and in winter you
don't even have to run it, but it's running by electricity. Another crazy and
very cool feature of Baleau are these two things here. You can hang these holes
there. These are training holes for climbers because you always need to stay
in training when you're climbing and here it's just cool for pull-ups and
finger strength. You can just hang here, do something, which is very cool.
So actually I think you can plan out this project with a van for really really
long time but the most important step is just to do it. If you really have to do
it then you you are somehow able to fix the problem. There's always a solution.
The adventure is not only climbing, the adventure is also going in this van and
travelling wherever you want. You could climb where everyone so why don't you
travel wherever you want? I learned everything and it works I hope for a long time.
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