Intro We’ve got to go to court...
What is happening guys, we’re Craig and Aimee and you are watching
Kinging-It! and this week, we’ve got a question to ask ourselves:
Why do we do this? And is this the end of van life?
If you’re brand new around here, we’ve been waltzing around
this luscious North African Country of Morocco for almost three months.
We’ve driven over four thousand miles We’ve fed all the animals we could find
We even bathed and photographed some rescue dogs We’ve been to the coast
We’ve been to the mountains and we’ve been all the way to the Sahara Desert
But now we only have eight days left as our visa soon runs out.
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in Morocco and beyond. 0:01:06:22
We choose to live and sleep in a van. Her names Custard.
She’s green, she’s feisty and she’s pretty comfortable.
Being “van lifers” we feel like we’re put into a category online.. and online
Van life can look pretty squeaky clean. but the reality is, quite different..
Custard looks like this about 1% of the time the other 99% of the time, she looks like this.
One of us has had pink eye from toilet back splash.
Arhh I think it splashed me in the eye Craig! Little bit of plop went on her eye, plop!
and now she’s got conjunctivitis. We’ve slept through thunder storms
We’ve had people knocking on the windows whilst we sleep.
We were ready to get into a fight with somebody. Things constantly break! Absolutely brilliant...
Going to a f***ing DIY store, and like I said earlier..
If you don’t like fixing things, then don’t buy a van.
We’ve broken down more times than we can remember. Just another Custard adventure..
Running a little bit late, we’ve kind of had a bit of a break down.
We’ve had flea’s, because Aimee’s brought in a rogue cat to feed on the bed.
Are you singing? “meow’” Do you love the Christmas
songs? ‘“meow” True story
And if I have to clean another dish.. Somebody.. Is going to get battered.
So If the reality of Van life, is a messy van, constantly doing the dishes.. Having to find
somewhere every few days to empty your pee pot [Sarcastic tone] I love van life
Essentially Sh**ing in a box in a cupboard. So why are we choosing to do this? And
for how long? 00:02:41:15
Today we’re making our way north towards Tangier Where we’re eventually going to get the boat from.
But before we do that, we need to do some van life chores.
And a wise man E Fitzgerald once told me.. If you can make the boring things fun,
then you’re never going to lose.. Thanks Aemon. “Upbeat jazz music playing”
I think there’s more bins. Yeah I’m just taking the bins out Aimee,
it’s a difficult task.. I’ll be a while,
I’ll be back in a bit. Oh here she is.
One normal bin.. One s**t bin..
Fell off didn’t he! Don’t tell them that love!
Oh no he did pull a hole in his t-shirt Thank god for that, I hated that t-shirt.
I bought Aimee a rose yesterday and she didn’t even say thanks.
Yeah I did, I was the one who told you to give the boy some money for it. Oh yeah...
So I bought myself one technically, thanks! Happy valentines day babes.
Shall we clean this place or what? Filthy Craig..
The reality of that scene was it took 20 minutes to get it looking like that.
But the beauty of editing is, you get to see it in a split second.
Oh god it’s overflowed. It literally has Aim, the sensor didn’t go off,
its everywhere in there. For gods sake..
The reality unfolding as I’m filming The sensor didn’t go off, and the toilet’s full of
p**s. Aw it’s on me toes man
“Up beat music plays” Just a bag of human poo
Somebodies got to do it. “Sound of glass smashing”
Shit skid on the handle..
Probably Aimee. “Upbeat music playing”
Our grey tank is always blocked so I always have a bottle on hand
to blow out all the s**t . “Upbeat music playing”
While the grey waste is just emptying.. I’m just going to wash Deborah in the sink.
What is it? It’s a wig. Not a ferret?
Not a ferret. Ah I knocked the bike over last night
Sorry bike Jones Who’s put sellotape by there?
Not my day today Living in a van has its obvious pro’s
You get to meet other van lifer’s on the road. It’s a house, but it moves.
And you have all the comfort’s of home Where ever you park it.
Cup of tea love? With our huge back
window, we get some unreal views. Sometimes So after a short drive, we’ve realised that
having fish in a van.. is not the smartest idea.
Also this tank is too small for these guys So we’re going to go and give them a new home.
Good lad, good lad Bye father Maurice we love you.
The last few week’s we’ve been back and forth with our travel plans Trying to get out of Morocco.
The government finally opened the maritime borders and we had a boat booked for the 12th Feb.
But they changed their minds. And cancelled all the Ferry’s to and from Morocco.
Nice one lads, super cool. Yeah wicked, that’s great.
Since then, Our visa’s have expired. We are now illegal in Morocco.
We’ve made it to Chefchaouen In the mountains, in the north.
But we’ve got a problem This kids visa run’s out today.
So we’re going to the police station to hand her in.
Yep
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with your first purchase. Because our visa’s had expired,
we drove up to Tangier To talk to some Coppers.
So we went to two police station’s to ask not to be arrested
And for a visa extension. One said we’re closed on Sundays
Erm what? A police station? And the other one said..
You’re going to need to come back when you’ve got a date for a ferry
Which at the minute is impossible. So we’re now in Tangier,
which is 12 O’Clock on the map. And we met this Swiss fella at the campsite
And he told us that he is shipping his van to Barcelona
and then getting a flight to pick it up. So I think we’ve found a loop hole.
I don’t know why we didn’t think of this sooner. So we got on the blower to see if we
could do the same. I’m with two friends
So we have two camping car’s between us Getting us shipped out
Well he said he’ll give us a call tomorrow morning But it looks like we’ll be leaving this week.
Hopefully, We’ll see. Arhh! After a few phone calls, A few cheers
Which were quickly dampened by bad news What a whirlwind.
We finally had a date. And a guy, as sketchy as he was..
Who would help us. The other issue is,
between all this back and forth Aimee’s actually booked a flight
She’s got a commitment to be in Ireland to see her mum.
So Aimee’s flight is booked for the 22nd February So it look’s like we’ll be
going our separate ways. Flights are up and running in Morocco
because covid can’t actually travel by plane.. but it can travel by boat.
Got some documents going to go and see someone about something.
Who knows We’re trying to get out now,
we’re done. We’re sick of it! Npo we’re not,
we’re not, I’m joking. But we are illegal.
We’ve got to go to court, so we need to go there To get some papers signed,
to be able to ship the van’s. So hopefully this is the spot,
everything’s done on WhatsApp Don’t even know who the guy is.
We’ll find out now.
Watch this palaver unfold now, just wait and see what happens.
It won’t be simple. Errr,
It’s one of them, there’s about four hundred. All we had was the name of a building.
By some miracle, we found somebody who knew
what we were looking for. You can call him on this number.
Ok, does he know we’re coming? Yes, yes, we called him.
Ok, perfect. So we came out with a post
it note, with a guys name and address. They said get a taxi, and be quick.
He know’s we’re coming apparently. This is mental!
We got the stamp, somehow it happened. So we’ve sent them to your man on WhatsApp
Keep our finger’s crossed now, everyone pray. I feel like we’re on a quest,
so the next challenge is Go to the train station, there’s a taxi next to it
Send the original documents to the city of ?
And get the taxi driver’s number and send it to this guy.
This sounds mental. Are we spy’s?
I think we’re spy’s. Back to biscuit.
James needs a poo though so he said can you wait outside.
Now that we had the stamps We drove to the train station to find the mystery,
document delivery, taxi driver. After some bartering, we settled on twenty four quid.
To deliver the documents to our customs/shipping guy
In a town about an hour away. The document’s are in a taxi
Hopefully they’re going to go where they’re supposed to go.
The guys on the phone was saying send money but.. Send money?
Well I said “how much should a taxi cost?’ And he started speaking in french.
Ok well we can bank transfer can’t we? Yeah we can bank transfer.
What a day To summarise this crazy week
We will be shipping Custard out of Tangier in Morocco.. To Barcelona in Spain on Wednesday 23rd.
I will then get a flight from Morocco to Barcelona to pick Custard up.
At the same time, Aimee will be flying from Morocco All the way to Ireland, to see her mum.
And I will be driving Custard from Barcelona.. All the way back to Barry in Wales.
And I might be with a few friends. We need some chips
So Chloe and James found this out the other day So you can actually just
get a plain bun from maccies Yeah plain bun, and put some chips in there.
Chip butty
Found a little friend so the guys have got some food for
her. Always got dog food on hand. She knows what it is
Maybe she is owned by someone, good girl. Stop blood filming me all the time argh!
He loves it really Bye chicken!
So back to what we were saying about van life.
So why do we do this? The adventures that we have
been on in Custard have been.. The best! But, Our mantra is ‘Rule your own world’
Do what makes you happy, and we fully found that when we started challenging ourselves
and really getting outside of our comfort zones Like driving a rickshaw through India.
And taking part in the Mongol Rally. Did you do the Mongol Rally?
These are not everyday adventures And we love the excitement of not knowing..
What kind of madness we’ll get up to. “Cheering”
So when we go home, Custard is going back into storage.. And we are going to start training..
And planning for our next big challenge. It’s going to be amazing guys and you
are going to love it But I’m terrified..
But I’m really excited at the same time Because this is going to be such a great challenge
And it’s going to be through a country.. that we’ve wanted to see so much more of.
Also, I might be taking three dogs from Moroccan Animal Aid
All the way from here to the UK to be adopted.
So there’s that! 1 2 3 BYE!
Bit of granola in my throat. Take two, cut that bit. Silly boy