So glad I found your channel. I quit my corporate job 18 months ago after a serious illness. I’ve been living in a caravan by the Northumberland coast and now I’ve recovered the next adventure is to get a campervan to travel on a limited budget. Thank you for the great advice and inspiring content. 😊

@earlyretirementwanderlust

5 ай бұрын

Buying our camper was hands down the best investment we have ever made after our house! It gives us our freedom and most short trips cost us just a little petrol money as we will find park ups as much as possible and just raid the fridge for what we have in our meal plan for the week anyway! Thanks for watching our channel. Good luck in the future, glad your health is on the up x

@hettypebble5639

5 ай бұрын

@@earlyretirementwanderlust thanks so much. I’m viewing vans tomorrow eek! 😁

£2200 for 5 weeks in Europe is amazing. Well done.

@earlyretirementwanderlust

7 ай бұрын

Thanks and we had a great time 🚐

Interesting blog. You are certainly living your lives well. Living on a tight budget (really) is not handicapping you. Keep up the good work.

@earlyretirementwanderlust

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. It is our love of travel and having the van that helped make our decision go retire early the van definitely helps keep us to a budget

‘Cut your shirt to suit your cloth.’ was my Grandmother’s mantra. I never got really got it until recently, you guys are the embodiment of that saying. Thanks for showing what can be done! Can you tell me why VW camper vans are so hideously expensive? 😅

@earlyretirementwanderlust

7 ай бұрын

We definitely decided we would rather be time rich and have to keep to a budget! They really are expensive now aren’t they. We have had the van for 6 years so got in before covid and the post pandemic inflation! We are hoping the prices will come down soon as we want to upgrade to a bigger van in 2 years when we get our pension!

Just walked out of my job, no pension, no savings 24 years 9n the job and I'm done!I have a Campervan and can't wait

@earlyretirementwanderlust

3 ай бұрын

Wow- that’s one hell of a step! Best of luck & enjoy your travels 👍

Worth mentioning that there are no tolls on German roads / motorways so you can head south through Germany to save money and then go into southern France that way - or just stay in Germany!

@earlyretirementwanderlust

4 ай бұрын

Very true - we have driven back through Germany and did a lovely drive following the Rhine. Germany was a revelation to us that we want to return to and explore 🚐

Really been enjoying your channel!. I'm an American living in Portugal and like yourselves I retired around the same age as both of you. My question is about your local UK trips, it seems that you travel most weeks so my question is when traveling in the UK if you go for 2 days or 5 days how many miles do you venture from home? For me I feel the further from home I go the more time I must stay. So for me if I drive 1-3 hours away from home I then stay 1 to 2 nights. If I drive 4 - 6 hours then I typically stay in that area for about 5 nights.

@earlyretirementwanderlust

8 ай бұрын

Living in the dales we are only an hour from the Lake District so can pop there regularly for a night or 2. We tend to not go further than 2 hrs if we only have 2 nights so when we go to Scotland we will stay for a week or so and save Europe for when we have big blocks of time. We are only 2 hrs to the Scottish border which helps. We are loving the freedom to travel that early retirement has given us and are trying really hard to not drive too far when we get to an area so we can really explore it well. We thought 10 days on Arran which is only 40 miles long and 20 wide would be too much but in reality we could have stayed another week!

Great blog 👍

@earlyretirementwanderlust

10 ай бұрын

Thankyou