How to VANLIFE in SPAIN | TOTAL COSTS of 90 DAYS & PRO TIPS
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- How much did three months in Spain cost in total? Is it safe to wild camp in Spain? What are the fulltime realities and practicalities of living in a van in Spain? Is it easy to travel from UK / Ireland to Spain post Brexit 2021? Is it hard to be a Vegan in a van in Spain? We answer all of these questions and give some tips and reflections on our time enjoying vanlife in Spain, as well as even throwing in a pie chart of our costs at the end in our Ultimate Guide to Vanlife in Spain!
We spent our 90 days in the Schengeng Zone in Spain, abiding by the Brexit Rules and Visa restrictions and we vlogged our whole time there, check out our Spanish vlog series to see some of our favourite places :)
0:00 - 01:21 - Intro
01:21- 03:09 - Getting to Spain
03:09 - 04:14 - Our One Off Costs
04:14 - 06:25 - Diesel & Mileage
06:25 - 08:35 - Park - Ups
08:35 - 15:32 - Utilities/Amenities
15:32 - 17:00 - Luxuries
17:00 - 19:28 - Groceries
19:28 - 21:14 - Reflection/Tips
21:14 - 23:43 Total Cost Breakdowns
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What 'luxuries' would big your biggest spend on a three month trip? And how much do you spend on food a month? We would love to know if we are super high or low compared to other couples food spends. Remember we have a small fridge so have to eat fresh lol 🤣 excuses excuses.
For spain that's not terrible but we managed on about €800 a month including wine.
@@anewlifeinportugalthat's good to know. Wine is so cheap in Spain isn't it! 😍
Hello. Lots of useful information here. One tip: don’t fill up full. A litre of diesel weighs around 850 grams. If you keep your tank half full, that’s a lot less weight to pull around. Your fuel consumption will be less, the van will feel a bit quicker and tyre wear will be lighter which saves money in the long run. We got that tip from a van dealer. Worked for us. Happy travels.
Great tip! Thanks so much ❤️❤️
It is so cool that you guys are just transparent about it. It’s really helpful for people that are starting and need to know this info.
You guys are so good together love following your journey love this video (thank for making me smile every time I watch you )😃😁😊
Aww thankyou so much, that's so lovely 🥰🥰
Thanks for the video guys! Safe travels.
Thankyou, and thanks for watching ☺️ Hope the video is useful for someone out there lol
If was useful in the sense that we now know about bioshots. And to avoid them. 😂
@@WeWillNomad hahahaha, yeah they are pretty zesty 🤣🤣 and far too addictive if you like ginger like me
Thanks for the lovely video 🧡 really informative 👍 I'm the sado whose gonna watch it again to take notes lolllllll
Love that 🤣🤣
Such an informative video! Love your chanel, but sooo many videos. Ill need months to get trough everything!
Hahaha thanks Matej! We wouldn't expect anyone to watch everything there is quite a lot haha, thankfully lots of them are short. Glad you found this informative. We hope to do more videos on each of the countries we stayed in, and any tips and costs etc associated with them. I know we enjoy those videos from other people so want to try be helpful.
Thank you for all that info. We are hopefully going to Spain in June and this has reassured us about many things for van life in Spain. Sooooo excited 😆. Enjoy the rest of your adventures 😘. Amanda x
Glad it was useful 🥰🥰 we absolutely LOVE Spain, and it's wonderful for vanlife. How long you guys planning to visit for. It's so vast I feel like we barely scratched the surface even in three months haha.
@@phillyandkeely hi, unfortunately only for 2weeks. We both still work 🥺 we would love to do longer. Maybe in a couple of years when I semi retire from the nhs 🤞🏻
You will fall on love with it after two weeks, guarantee you will be back out for longer when you semi retire 🥰🥰
@@phillyandkeely I’m sure we will xx
We always shop in lidl too all over Europe, we do try and use markets too so we can support the locals who grow it too.
Yeah I think we would like to do a bit more market shopping for veggies in future too, like you say support local.
If you travel east to countries like Romania you can easily do a month on £500 fuel is about £1 per L and the food is really cheap.
We are defo gonna have to check out Romania at some point on this trip!
We hide away in the wild at weekends too 😆 we always try to stay away from beaches at weekends. Not just in Spain but everywhere 👍
Yeah good rule of thumb for life eh
Cheap as chips. Let's go! Vamos!!!! Sooo what the flip is a bioshot. Lol 😆 I found that video brilliant. More of these types of videos please. I mean it wasn't hilarious compared to the one before but it was reallllly interesting I have to say
@@upwards771 thanks so much, glad to hear you found it interesting, hopefully it will be useful
Keep it simple perfect shirt for this video .
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Junctions = Intersections . Park Ups = Boondocking . I never heard Boondocking until I started watching RUclips . Kinda means illegal parking but mostly accepted . In my city it’s illegal to live in a vehicle of any type . The mayor here once bought a ambulance for a homeless man to live in . He told what he did on the news and the police took away the ambulance from the homeless man that day . Mayor said he didn’t know he was breaking the law .
Aww that's sad about the ambo
You shouldn't need to top up coolant unless you have a leak or a headgasket problem. If your losing coolant its worth getting it checked out.
Got her all checked out here in Croatia and now she's running like a dream, she's a new woman lol 🥰
@@phillyandkeely what was it that was loosing your coolant? I'm a qualified mechanic btw
@@anewlifeinportugal will have to hit you up in future when we have issues now haha 🤣 save us taking it in to get serviced, we would love to have a better understanding of the mechanics, it's so hard to diagnose things online because you get so many mixed responses lol. So how often should someone need to top up their engine water for future reference?
The coolant system is a sealed and pressurised system, unless you have a cracked expansion tank, leaking hose, leaking water pump, radiator or head gasket failure you shouldn't really lose any no matter what climate you drive the vehicle in.
We must have a leak somewhere, we've had it checked over three times since we first noticed fluids needing topped up very quickly and so far no garage has been able to see a leak. We just top them up regularly so it's not a big issue, I suppose the only issue would be if we let anything run dry by accident, but we are pretty paranoid about it, so hopefully won't happen
All of the useful, thank you very much. Enjoyed watching. Did you come across many ‘older’ travellers? My friend who’s is has a van and is female and solo, in her seventies really wants to go - has a dog for company- but is worried about driving on the opposite side of the road and violence against vanners. Do you say. Go for it to her or maybe not?
A good portion of people we seen were older, but mostly in RVs. We are trying to convince my parents who are both nearly 70 to go tour Spain in a van, we didn't experience any anti van stuff while we were there, it seemed much more accepted in Spain than in the UK. You adjust to the opposite side of the road pretty quick, just follow the traffic haha.
@@phillyandkeely thank you for your positive rely. Looking forward to you next series. Take care. Xx
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Its 90 days in the schengen zone though not the eu you can visit romania for instance which is outside the schengen zone but still part of the ue and is not counted as part of your 90/180 day allowance 😁
Yeah that's what we meant to say lol 🤣 defo want to hit up romania after all your 'wanderful' advice, it looks so so beautiful 🥰
@@phillyandkeely Hi folks great information Thank you I was wondering because your are from N Ireland and have the gift of having both passports GB and Irish would that not entitle you to stay as long as you want in the EU ?
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more or less 400 to 500 euro's for a month - INCLUDING FOOD. however, EXCLUDING afaik your vehicle insurance and taxes, or i faded out for a moment. i don't know UK prices, but Spain's prices for a vehicle's tax and insurance are like 400 a year combined, so that'd be like let's say 30 a month.
so let's keep it at 500, being able to live for 500 a month is decent.
Now if you were to be able to rent out your own home for a year, or perhaps two, for a decent price - let's say between 800 and 1000 a month, you can easily live like that for a year or two.
We always pay our insurance and tax up front at the start of the year so it's not a monthly cost we need to factor in, so our only monthly expense bill is our phone. Insurance in UK for this van is around £600 and £240 to tax, so that's prob about €1000 converted. We lived in the van in London for a year, our previous rent and bills were £1800 a month, plus same cost in petrol commuting everyday and more expensive food bills, so compared to our previous life this is very affordable. But there are much cheaper places to live haha, but just comparing to the year in London with a flat and cat before and then after with the van. I think the main thing for us is not having monthly bills we are tied to, so we can slow down or eat more cheaply if things are tight that month, we are in control of where our money goes if that makes sense. The ultimate goal would be a little piece of land though, vanlife is not sustainable forever for us ❤️ sounds like UK is a lot more expensive than Spain, so we are defo hoping to live here in future haha
@@phillyandkeely i get it, i actually live in spain, moved from NL. much more affordable (costa blanca). I think pure vanlife is doable for single, solitary people. I'm married and two people in such a confined zone too long is asking for problems.
if i was still alone and single, i think i could live pretty good enough from a (box)van, gaming, ytubing, fitnessing, and doing home office work whilst renting out my property.
hell, i could park on my own street and still rent out lol
Stupid question: never heard of bio shots. What are those?
Little ginger zesty type things
@@phillyandkeely ah, thanks.
You can get an Irish passport and do away with 90/180!. I suppose you know that by now.