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AM-BOL-EAST re-union LIVE

Hey folks, here is the link needed to get on our livestream.

Remember to click on the link to take you to Youtube in order to take part in the chat.

PREPARE FOR TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES!

We've been setting up for about half hour but it's been going wrong alot lol.

But hey...

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Am-Bol-East One year anniversary Live

Can you beleive it's been 1 whole year since our little lockdown camp got established!

One year ago today (well last night at 2am), we had just arrived on the farm, having been put through quite a nasty situation. Shook up, worried about this very new Virus nobody knew anything about and h...

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Sangria Painting Party - Offgrid Vanlife Retreat - Ep.10

Hello again folks,

How are we all?

Next installment is here and ready to watch.
Quite possibly my favourite one so far to edit at least, it had me chuckling watching the footage back.
In this one we tackle the shed's rough exterior. We'd attepted to put a border on it in Terrac...

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Attempting our flooded hill after weeks of Rain - Offgrid Vanlife Retreat: Ep. 9

After 2 solid weeks of rain & effectively being stuck on the plot, we'd began to run low on supplies. Thus ground had dried out a little but it was still touch and go, but we gave it a try... with a run up!

I think this one has been my favourite so far, just from going back over the foo...

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Project.Amber Live - 8:00 tonight GMT

Here is the link folks, 8:00 we go live!

I've not done this on Patreon before so I'm not sure how its all works fully,
For the chat box you may want to open up Youtube rather than watch it on here, not sure.

Link: h...

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Outhouse Location & Turning Circle - Offgrid Vanlife Retreat: Ep.8

In this one we decide on where we should locate our Sh...Outhouse 🤭 We won't be starting to build it yet, but at least clear the path and  get the area ready. Then I make a start on digging into the hillside by hand to create a van  turning circle, whilst Emma widens the road... and ...

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Making a Pond, Veg Patch & rescuing a toilet - Offgrid Vanlife Retreat - Ep.7

In order to get to grips with how the layout is going to be, we decided  to lay out the boundery of the veg patch, reusing some of the concrete  posts that have been laying around here for years. We also create a wildlife pond down on the bottom terrace to relocate  all of the frog...

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The rain is here! - Ep. 5

We've now officially hit rainy season. The weather turns the whole plot  into mush, and barring the odd hour or so of gaps in the weather, we  were forced indoors for 2 weeks. We made do the best we could and kept entertained in a number of  different methods from nerding out on th...

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Shed Revamp

Hey all,

I'm in a mobile editing skunk-works at the moment!

I currently have every video project left from portugal on the go as I've kind of forgot what happened when.
Because of that and a stupid idea to folder each clip in Project order rather than date, it's a complete mess w...

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Late Night Tails - The "Ghost" Girl in the woods

This one got requested alot and I'd not done a late night tale video for a bit, so here you are: discussing the "ghost" girl in the woods 3 years later.
I don't think I've spoke about it other than face to face with those who have asked.
I'd very much put that to the back of my head and lef...

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Patreon Live Session?

Hey guys,

I've been pondering weather on not to do a live stream soon. It's been a while as the public ones are a little full on at times, but after Ash (Lost in Europe) telling me how to setup a Patreon only one, I thought I'd see your thoughts.

If so,

When would work best, w...

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Land Q&A

Hey guys,


Since the Portugal videos have gone up I've been swamped in messages, back at the land I decided to answer a few more in a Q&A video.
Now it had rained, I wasn't feeling the best and in with the questions were alot of shitty people.
See if you can spot the are...

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Van Dock Build - Part 2

Hey guys, 


Part two of the van dock is now ready at your viewing pleasure.

Still loads to do on it but at a later date, but the weird and wonderful ideas keep sprouting on what to incorperate into it!

I hope you enjoy.
Happy Sunday!

C.J & Lance

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Van Dock Build - Part 1

I've been wanting to get onto these video's pretty much since doing all this almost a month ago. In which we make a start on the thing I've been dreaming about;

A wooden additional room to the van, that will lock into electric, water, waste & awning mounts.

Something that eliminat...

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We have Electricity! & Timber - Ep.3

It soon become apparent we were going to need some new tools, materials and, frankly, toys to get us through some of our jobs on the land.

With the threat of a Lockdown in Portugal looming we decided to go into town and get as much as we could that we needed ( and some that we just wanted) ...

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Lance learns how to use a Cong: Keeping occupied through our quarantine

Took him a while, but now he's unstoppable! until it's empty, then we get "the eyes".

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Episode 2. Cleaning & Clearing

Hey guys,

So as some of you have seen, we've had to uproot and come back the the UK this weekend.
Absolutally gutted, but thanks to a Burocracy, Covid and Brexit shit cocktail we had no choice.

Anyway, we made it back safe, avoided the forced hotel £1700 malark by 24 hours and...

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Forced to go home

Hey guys,
Thanks to our residency STILL not being processed even though we sorted it before Xmas & now this new forced hotel quarantine, we've had to return home to avoid being trapped out the 90 days and fined.
Absolutely fuming and apologies for the wind noise and lack of quality of ...

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Breaking Ground - Making a start on the land

Hey guys,


Here we go! After a few mad weeks and content thats been a bit "all over the place"
We're back on track and a structured stream of videos.

Join me, Emma & Lance as we arrive back into Portugal, make it up to the land and make a proper start on making it the...

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The Return to Escanavada

OK so you guys have already seen some videos,
But this ones is the YT continuation, quarantine, getting the van through its MOT... Just, and grabbing Emma before jumping back on the ferry to come back to the land.

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The return home

After buying the land I swiftly had to return home, quarantine and sort some bits out.
You guys already know we're back now but this is just a continuation on from the story and that promised extra episode for Patreons only.

Currently we're sat in the van waiting out a horrific storm t...

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Planning... With Whiskey.

Tonight we're figuring out what's going where, without it on paper, my mind wonders and I forget all the ideas we come up with, so notebooks are pretty important around here.

A quick shout out and thanks to Steve Wild, your PayPal gift for "some whiskey" went on just that, as well as some ...

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Tour of Escanavada

Hey folks.
Been bloody busy over here tinkering and building, but now you can finally see the plot in detail in this little tour video, I'll keep this short and sweet because signal is intermittent, but all the details are in the vid.
Enjoy!

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Quick update from Base Camp Escanavada

Hey all,
It's all gone a little quiet from me since the last video I know, We've been toiling away here on the plot and honestly, I've just stepped away from the internet side of life to enjoy some time off and spend some quality time with Emma and Lance.
I have been recording the odd proje...

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I bought my Offgrid Land! - Portugal Series Finale - Ep.12

Here it is folks, the end...for now.


I'd like to say a massive thank you to you all for your continued support even during this man and uncertain time.

The land itself was funded by selling my beloved Classic Mini, as seen at the end, but there is no doubt about it, you lot...

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Campsite Turned Storm Shelter - Ongrid Wet Vanlife: Quest for offgrid land - Ep.11

A storm had battered the campsite we'd taken shelter at the night  previous, but our problems still weren't over. With no vegitation or trees to absorb the rain water, it was running off of all the hills and raising the river dramatically. The rain stuck around for 5 days making most things ...

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Drive by Compass to an Abandoned Campsite: Quest for Offgrid Land - Ep.10

Me again!

Merry Christmas Eve! Here's another video. 

After a repairing a small breakdown involving, once again, my air  suspension. I hit the road again this time by driving with nothing but  my commpass and heading West to see what I find.
I end up in an area  ...

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OK Portugal: Visiting the farm I watch on Youtube! - Ep.9

In this episode I visit Ken & Gina of the Youtube channel OKportugal  andgather some golden jewels of knowledge and advice from these guys  that have been out here for a year and are making there Quinta woork  once again. I stumbled across their channel as they had a campervan ...

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Lance Lording over his new kingdom. ðŸ¶

Currently working on the last 4 videos simultaneously to get them out before 2020 is over. 🤞

Then you can finally see what all the fuss has been about.
Me and Emma are back here now after my brief stint back in the UK (did my quarantine, hated being back, grabbed Emma, left again ðŸ˜...

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Waiting game

Good news! Where I was stood desperately trying to gain enough signal to post yesterday, 6 feet to the left of there was perfect 4G!  So here it is!


It's been a while getting things in order and waiting for processes to be sorted out.

But after visiting my laywer and receivin...

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