Motorhome repair costs after our breakdown and subsequent recovery in Torrevieja, Spain
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2023
- Budget Breakdown: Winter Getaway from UK to Spain 🚗💸
In this video we reveal the cost of the repair to our Fiat Ducato based Maesss motorhome ignition and imobiliser system after our breakdown in Torrevieja and it's subsequent removal to a garage in Los Montesinos, Spain.
The price was a shocker to me as a professional Yorkshireman and shouts of "how much" echoed all around Alicant Province, but we are now mobile again and I'l talk about how Driver Guardian, our UK breakdown, roadside assistance and recovery choice dealt with us.
The cost of driving over to Spain from the UK Via the Portsmouth to Santander Ferry for a winter holiday at our new apartment in Ciudad Quesada, Pueblo Bravo in Alicante Province is also covered.
The cost of the ferry crossing, food,shopping, eating out, buying household goods, drinking, vehicle expenses, car hire, fuel and household costs are shown in a spreadsheet during the video.
We are Mick and Cath, currently working as campsite wardens in Ripon North Yorkshire, UK, but with retirement fast approaching we are planning a permanent move to our home in Spain.
Our plan is to retire with a single UK state penion to our apartment in Pueblo Bravo, Ciudad Quesada, Rojales, Spain which we bought with the proceeds of the sale of our UK home.
In the meantime we plan to use our 2009 Belgian built Maesss motorhome to travel in the UK on our time off and then take a big trip to France when we finally finish work.
The RUclips channel was set up to help us keep and share the memories with anyone who is interested, so, if you are interested in this kind of content and may be planning a similar retirement and need to know our costs, we will be sharing our expenses and experiences as we continue our journey.
Our journey really began when we moved to Canada in 2008 for Mick to become a long haul truck driver, where we lived in our truck and spent an adventurous time delivering oversized loads all over Canada and the USA.
We also ran a Blog during that time but didn't have a Vlog due to lack of decent gear for recording in a big rig, although we do have lots of clips on Micks other RUclips channel... / @mickflynnimages and lots of pictures on mickflynnimages.com.
We then returned to England for a while and spent four summer seasons working in the Loire Valley on a beautiful campsite, before moving back to the UK and staying for six years working on a campsite near Henlow, Bedfordshire.
In 2021 we moved up to Yorkshire to be nearer our house which had been locked up for a few years except for short weekend visits, although, as we were provided with comfortable accomodation at our current site we decided to sell up, and so began our Spanish dream with the sale of our modest house in Bradford, which allowed us to buy the small apartment in Spain.
Our next big job (which we will be documenting) is to teach Cath how to ride a bike as she has never had one, but we feel that a couple of small folding electric bikes will allow us to get out and about more to explore wherever we are.
Welcome along for the ride, we hope we can make it interesting and informative for you.
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Fantastic info. thank you.
Hi Angus, thanks for watching and subscribing 😊
well. There you go. I liked it before I even watched it....
I price a Part for a Transit Connect, a Cam block, 790 Euro but back in Ireland 🇮🇪 640 did not think it was possible to more expensive than Ireland ,
I have Travel insurance but no good for pre existing condition 😢
Heading out January 2nd like to meet up for a Coffee at my expense ,
Doing up Bathroom as soon as possible to make room for Washing machine
Hi Phil , where will you be based when you are over and how long are you over for?
@@ourturnnow Based in Altos de Limonar area of Torrevieja, Got a 1 way ticket 🎟, Weather is depressing 😕, I will be at Lemmon 🌳 tree, market on A Sunday
@@PhilHiggins-jn9bl OK
Phil, look forward to it. We are not far from the market, or we could meet up in one of the squares up your way.
Hi how did you get round the 90 day rule?
We didn't get around it.
Good luck with your life in spain.
Thanks Susan.
how long are you down in spain for
Hi Colin we are here until the end of February.
@@ourturnnow so soon, you be back home doesn’t seem long since you went down. Very interesting to see your monetary expenditure would you stay there longer if you could
We would be happy to stay down here, but we need to earn a bit more money, so back to work we go.