first comment fuck it I'm going back to China Europe is so boring
he's not wrong......
Oh man.... first night, in the camper was was ROUGH. ROUUGGH!
before we even figure out where we're going sorry there's a there's a cat
running... before we even figure out where we're going for the day we have to
figure out this bed situation it is hard as shit and my hips are on fire Noah's
hips are on fire it is not comfortable although we have a bed situation yep
so our first night in the van done but now we face the real challenge which is
driving it from point A to point B today we're gonna try to go to Florence now we
are going to go to Florence we're gonna try going to do it but we're not
entirely sure where the hell we're gonna stay so that's a new one for us normally
we're used to booking accommodation but now I guess we kind of are of course we
could try to free camp honestly though with the fact that we're trying to edit
videos and we still have videos to edit for the yellow hostel we have to work
so we're gonna try to maybe find a campsite with some power and our power
situation is kind of messed up right now because really the power strip that I
bought doesn't work maybe that's fine it's all learning experience day one
night one rather is in the books and that's about it there's literally a dog
and like ten cats over there they're being so good
there's a cat there too oh yeah we have a TomTom I've never actually used TomTom
before pretty crazy it's like an Internet it's got everything in it
Lynnie's working out the details of our campsite. Yes, logistics. so this is what
I do what I've I don't know this well so far with your one day of experience is
what I do so I'm a part of this group Facebook group and basically they
suggested I use in Europe a app called Park4night.com and sadly for me a
lot of it is in French or other languages so but basically it's an app
where they're like here's free camping here's like you know paid parking and
things like that so it gives you all these amenities on a map so I look for
that first so I found free ones and then I found some pay ones with all the
amenities and then I have to copy and paste the reviews and what it actually
has in Google translates have to translate a lot of this French and to
English and that's how we figure it out and then I write down the latitude
longitude and then I'll plug it in to the TomTom and that's what I'm doing oh
my god these cats are so flippin adorable they're everywhere to sanctuary
for cats so we should probably provide a little
bit of context as to why we just randomly appeared in this campervan park
in rome with a campervan right basically we have been travelling around Europe
for about a month and a half at this point
mm-hmm and we wanted to find a way to make our travels a little bit more
interesting let's just say yeah so I found this company and basically they
rent out these camper vans and I'm like okay that's it that's what we're doing
so it should be noted that we have never had a camper yeah this is we're
completely new to any kind of camper van type of situation where we drive a
vehicle around to various campsites and use facilities and maintain a vehicle
that's capable of living and we've never done this before it's a lot to learn
we've never done it in the state which is big but we've definitely never done
it here in Europe so a lot of learning lessons yes and we're on the freeway now
in a route which didn't include any toll the main motorway that was incredibly
stressful because it took you took us down like all these side streets
this exits it happens very quickly and then you have to like do
it was very stressful so we're doing the fastest route which includes tolls and
motorways but the roads are much better obviously and
yeah let's we're going to ease into it honestly
it was very stressful Noah did great but
as I'm trying to give directions which I can
see that far out I'm like quivering
rough little start but we're on the road now it's very straight the roads are
much better here we go I think one of the biggest surprises for both of us
when it came to driving a band through Europe was the fact that we're not used
to very small roads and and the van was too big for these roads in a lot of
cases and so we're passing all these beautiful Tuscan hillsides villages and
the reality of that is that we would have to park miles away to get anywhere
near it and walk to it exactly so our idealized version of
driving the van through the countryside to get from point A to point B just
wasn't feasible I think that's a bad accident right there it must have just
happened came up on the traffic oh my god
okay we need to be careful yeah
Noah Camp, you just went through Italy kind of from Rome to Florence how did it
go a nightmare no I mean it went well in the respect that nothing crazy happened
but it was a culture shock extremely stressful driving around Italy
especially when we got into Florence our GPS units sent us up into the hills and
I'm literally going like the wrong way through these Windy Hill one way I think
I was going the wrong way no we were it was it was I know no one was listening
to me but I was listening to the GPS and it was one way on the most narrow one
waste one single car streets ever if we've had another car we're fun we'd be
fat screwed good so we are we were gonna go to a paid campsite just so we can
have electricity but we're just gonna free camp tonight in this spot that we
found because we suspect that the paid cannes campsite was way up in the hills
and would have been and kind of a nightmare to get there so parked here
near the police station i think you can actually hear the firing range that's
good no one will fuck with the police station
right yeah super overwhelming day yeah big time yeah that was very stressful i
was more stressful than i thought it would be
yeah yeah beautiful yeah absolutely yeah beautiful scenery super golden our
eaves on accident which was scary and and the driving took some getting used
to people over here drive insane every country they seem to drive their own
brand of insane so I'm getting used to the European brand of insane so
there's that beyond that we're here ready to call it for like two days three
days then for a couple days so that's it and it's a good free Wi-Fi that's
awesome yes awesome free Wi-Fi and we can sleep
by the sounds of the firing range yeah I'm totally up for that okay let's do it
it's a nice path yeah parked over there we woke up to a farmers market and now
we walk to Florence yay great mark quick so you understand I'm still thinking
about it I know if I'm cut out for this hey I
have no power I carry all my electronics and weeks after the charge of up it's a
mess I am stressed staying out weathers getting worse I'm
freaky I don't know we're staying tomorrow and runs like oh so great our
toilet doesn't work how long we're staying
I need Wi-Fi no dirty it's grown no I just have lots to say that'd be fine
because I could Google Translate I'm just I'm PMSing whatever terrible okay
no nevermind kind of Osaka or no Hiroshima oh it does really does cuz
I think we visited around the same year the same time of the year there was a
river and then the river front kind of looks similar well that does and then
there's a bunch of old stuff we're using TomTom
and everything else we have is dead except TomTom
he's almost 10 times almost dead okay Wynn just has to be fashionable hike the
bear bear oh yeah that's awesome t-rex save you we have a teen
yeah we're shopping for gear because we desperately need warm weather stuff we
basically have to rebuy a bunch of stuff that we hadn't really left because when
we left at the Kia it was still hot it was too hot too more carrying around
heavy clothing so we kind of got rid of stuff and they were having to rebuy some
things not the smartest decision but it is what it is so obviously one of the
benefits of traveling to Europe in winter is that you are there for the low
season now our trip to this point had been fairly expensive we're used to
Asian prices but everything that we did on this trip would have probably been at
least double the costs in during summer mm-hmm it's cold but frankly we have
less crowds yeah less crowded give us time to like see more things take our
time and not feel claustrophobic it was nice it's not too packed in here
actually no it's not actually overheard someone saying if they're here
and is in last year something and they're like you took 30 minutes just to
get close to him so come all the way back on the hallway and so that you
couldn't even see it so today's
they're yummy are we vlogging no it's good it's just
we're still trying to find our van legs and this town is weird so it's outside
of for Florence or it's a shoot it's an option for frenzy what's this I'll write
it down firenzi anyways oh I've seen people throwing up I've seen drug deals
happen I've seen prostitution yeah super dirty there's drunk people all around
there's people that come in hassle you there's an old woman falling down
well I puke on the ground someone left a shank on the ground they lurk seriously
made like a shank out of a tree trunk cuz you can tell because you don't you
put it in between and then they use a weapon it was a weapon on the ground and
this place is sketch fucking City yeah it's got a vibe to it it's got a super
vine like oh I'm gonna I might die here not that extreme but you feel you
thought you're getting like yeah this is not a good place well we've been
sleeping in this parking lot so we've been free camping and everything has
gone well but it also I'm new to this whole free camping thing and given the
fact that Lynn just laid out basically all that stuff I don't really feel all
that safe here but to be fair we haven't we've been fine so I'm sure it's okay it
is a very weird vibe here I'm super ready to get out of the city Florence
was cool the old town was amazing we saw the Statue of David I've always wanted
to see that thing and it was it didn't disappoint it was absolutely amazing the
old the old city Florence is absolutely beautiful and Atmospheric yeah Park
about 40 minute walk away into you know see David yes good logistically in that
way but if you go in the opposite direction towards Florence
yeah so we are gonna try to make our way north further north and we need to
actually find an actual campground two nights of free camping we need to park
this thing and use some services because yeah go ahead because it's not like I
guess maybe some of the other camp camper vans that we've seen online you
know it's like you just drive and kind of sleep in it but this actually has
like facilities it has water tanks as bathrooms it has all this stuff that
needs to be maintained so we need to find a place where we can maintain it
every couple days at least because again we've been free camping out in this
parking lot and last night we actually made dinner by candlelight
Lind used the stove and I turned the van on so we could have power so it's all
good but we do need to find somewhere with some services that's we're gonna
try to do today