The Adventure begins | VAN LIFE | FRANCE & BELGIUM | Le Shuttle [Ep 139]
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- This week I leave my Narrowboat behind and move full time into my camper van to experience Van life. I link up with a fellow solo female traveller and we head to folkestone to catch the Le shuttle train through the Eurotunnel to Calais, France. We explore Dunkirk and the Operation Dynamo Museum before driving our camper vans to Ypres, Belgium where we head to Menin Gate to hear the Last Post being performed.
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Big respect for the French for remembering the lads who gave their today for our tomorrow ❤
Yes 😄🏴☠️❤️
And the Belgians
Hi to you both, i love your friends hat.
Have fun Heidi, love 💕 and kisses 😘😘😘 to Bonnie ❤❤❤ X X X
😊 thank you
Ah!! Great vlog enjoy your travels.. your lucky your not in Paris this week as it’s freezing 🥶 here at the moment. ❤😊
So pleased you decide to film your adventures on the continent, Heidi - really enjoyed the episode. Hope you all have a ‘rum’ old time on the rest of your road trip !
Fantastic video. I was as excited as you when you went underneath the sea. Your best yet. More of the same please and have a great adventure.
More to come!
Good luck 👍
Thank you , danke für die deutschen Untertitel ❤. Und danke für das schöne Video. Grüße aus 🇦🇹
Thank you
So so sweet to be able to join in your excellent adventure. I miss many friends I had in England and you help me to fill that void. All my relatives are now gone from my own adventures but I feel like Europe is still with me. The fallen are never left behind, Christmas still stirs the soul and adventurous lady pirates help curb the defeated spirit. Lots of love❤ and best wishes from a winter storm in Arizona 🇺🇸. Have a wonderful time. ❤ from Blue Moon Barn.
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Thank you ☺️
I'm loving this tour through history. Keep it up. The French music was great. Big cannons, eh?? Thanks so much for taking us along this ride
Thanks Stan 😄🏴☠️❤️
Admire you ladies for doing this van trip and thanks for taking us along. Took the day off for new breaks today and got to watch you early today 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️🏴☠️
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️
Good luck and safe travels. Wow, Bonnie was so good with all those dogs at Dover. Well done with all the training to get her to that stage. Shame its so cold here in France for your trip.
I am so glad you are taking us with you on your adventure. Was missing you already. I am so impressed that you have got everything planned to a tee. Bon Voyage…….it will be a great experience and now we cab be with you. Whoopee!!!
Thank you so much!
❤ what an exciting adventure with your best friend. Quite emotional seeing the WWII scenes at Dunkirk and in Belgium. Looking forward to next weeks episode on your European travels.
Wonderful! Love love love it. I've always wondered what the channel tunnel was like. You guys are amazing!
Love your videos Heidi you are a delight! My wife and l look forward to every vid and so well balanced between fun and educational you are a star! Have fun stay safe you two and we look forward to next weeks vid/adventure! Cheers James and Shelly xx.
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️😂
I used the tunnel many times when it was newly opened as a way to get to Lake Garda. The drive from Aberdeenshire was a pain though so in recent years the ferry from Newcastle to The Netherlands has been used. It has a late afternoon departure time and arrives the next morning.
Your trip will hopefully get you to warmer places. It's been grey and misty all day here.
It was Lovely seeing this, especially that you have started your journey & that you are enjoying yourself!
Many Thanks for taking us with you!
Warmth Wishes from Venice Italy!
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Welcome! ❤
Great to see you, Bonny and friend enjoying yourselves Heidi, I drove Tour Coaches through Europe in the 1980’s covering Franc, Holland, Germany, Austria and Italy, I know what it feels like to drive a R/H steered vehicle on the other side of the road! and I had 45 passengers 😂…I did that for 5 years and loved every minute. Be safe 👍🏻
Thank you, you too 😄🏴☠️
Brilliant episode ladies! This is going to be a grand adventure.
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Howdy Heidi!!! Safe travels & have a grand time on your of your life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big hugs from Kenny Ohio USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Great to see you all having fun on Le Continent, take care.
Thank you both for sharing your fab adventure💞, The last post was emotional eh!🌄 . Glad the pooches are having a blast as well🐕🦮🦮. Looking forward to your next video. 😊 Mostly have a fabulous time 👭🐕🦮🦮
Hope you liked your little stay in milton keynes (my home town) the cathedral of trees is beautiful in summer , also I bet bonny loved being there
She is loving every minute 😄🏴☠️
I travelled down the Somme and visited all the historic places, it was lovely to see Ypres and the bridge where they play the last post again, enjoy your trip(I did) xx
Thank you ☺️
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Safe travels.
Too you and your friend and your precious dogs to.
It’s good to see the places you’re visiting and learn about the history of each place.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you very much!
Ypres is pronounced 'eepruh' but the British soldiers called it 'Wipers. The last post at the Menin Gate is so atmospheric. Enjoying the vlogs, really useful info for those of us thinking of taking our pets on the Shuttle.
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
It is ee pruh but the last 2 letters are more imagined than spoken so it really should be ee pr
I think you're very brave for taking that train under the Channel. I'm not sure I could do it, just thinking about all that water over my head! This was a great beginning to your epic European journey and I'm really looking forward to seeing all that is to come!
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
In England they were told anybody with. A boat get over to Dunkirk .
Just wetting the lips with glühwein, what an exciting adventure!
I am impressed Heidi❤
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
We're both watching this on a phone in Belgium
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Excellent to see that you girls and the dogs have managed to do the crossing of the Channel through the tunnel, which of course is far better when you are travelling with dogs.
Also very good to have done you preparations properly like the dogs papers and you Autoroute passage boxes to avoid the hassle at the toll booths.
BTW in case you haven't noticed, you are going North, and Spain and Portugal are in the opposite direction, but never mind Belgium, and if you continue the Netherlands are beautiful too, only don't expect it to be warm, apart from inside your beatiful campervans.
23 and 24 years old vans are normally far more reliable than all the modern ones where most thing are electronicly controled, and that means a LOT MORE to go wrong, your old ones are simple, so less likely to go wrong, and if they do, you don't need the expensive garages with their computerised tests, there is no substitude for K.I.S.S.
Have fun ladies, looking forward to your next vlog.
Peter.
Thanks Peter, we will eventually be heading south but we wanted to pop into Belgium first as were so close to the border 😄🏴☠️❤️
Oh Heidi and Sandra and Bonnie and her two fur big babies, I am so happy your getting to do this and be a part of your journey. I am already excited for next weeks video. All 5 of you have fun galavanting on your European holiday. See Heidi, not so hard driving on the right hand side. When i use to be a mail carrier we had to learn how to drive the mail trucks and of course the steering wheels are on the right hand side. It took some getting used to. Be safe ladies and the fur babies . Sending hugs from Las Vegas NV 🩷🩷
Thank you 😊
Hi Heidi glad your travelling with your best mate Sandra, good to have company.
Looked like Bonnie is a beach bum.
Both have great adventures, go explore.💚
It is VERY important to remember the Fallen. Young men 17 to mid 20s who gave their lives. It makes me cry when I think about them. May they be blessed and remembered eternally. They were just young lads. 💖
Spent the night in Watten on 15 December in our way to Maastricht for Andre Rieu Concert. A great stopover…..only us and another van that night. Next time we’re going to stop for another night and pop up into the town. It’s a great stop off.
Yes it was perfect 😄🏴☠️
Get a couple of portable radios, walkie-talkie style that way it’s easy communications between you and Sandra while driving or just van to van communicating. There cheap and can also be used on your boats
Ah what a shame. If we knew you were passing our door in Kent, you could have stopped off for a coffee!! 👍
Next time!
If you are interested in war museums, Dead man’s corner is the best in Europe apparently. I am enjoying your trip. I’ts a good idea with a travel companion. I’m a wuss on my own.
I’m glad you’re teaming up with another traveler. Safe travels ❤️
Wow, great to see you and little Bonnie having a great time. The part about Dunkirk especially poignant for me as my grandad was one of the last soldiers to be rescued from there only to go back again on D day and luckily get back in one piece. Enjoy the rest of your trip and can't wait for the next installment.
Wow amazing and thanks for sharing 😄
Thank you for sharing your adventures. Hope you have a great time !
Thank you 😊
Less we forget, how amazing are the Belgian people for honouring the men who fought in ww1.
You tend to forget how young those guys were back then, moving thx for reminding us
Bonjore, very excited to be with you. We are now too old to travel to Europe and you are invoking so many memories, Thankyou and enjoy yourselves. X
Not seeing your notifications on Facebook ? But got video now❤
hope you all have a lovely time! hope you like milton keynes, my home town. :-)
Wonderful adventures ahead. Thank you for taking me along. Bonny is such a good girl.
This was a really fab vlog Heidi. Can't wait to follow your adventures in Europe.
Thanks so much! 😊
Wouw TWO big dogs for Bonnie not to react to 🐱🐱
Pro tip ---- if you go to the toilet at the front of the train you will find an observation area. In twenty years of tunnelling I never saw a fish. Appreciate the tribute to the lads and lasses in the war. Dad missed out - too late to get a boat - so he worked his way into Norway, avoided capture, got a lift across the North Sea, then was posted to Burma.
Aww thanks for sharing 😄❤️🏴☠️
Glad your having a great time stay safe xx
Love your adventures by water and land. I am enjoying the glimpse of Belgium as my mother was born and raised there and my father fought in the Ardennes, and I, sadly, will never get to see it. How moving that Belgium continues to honor those who fell in her defense.
It was wonderful that last post, made my hairs stand on end 😃🏴☠️❤️
So excited to joy you on your European adventure.
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Oh I am so jealous Heidi. We can't leave home (UK) at the moment but as soon as we are able to we are off and will be doing the exact same route you've just taken heading for Brugge. You'll be fine driving abroad, my hubby sent you a message about when in France be aware of the Priorite Adroit, priority from the right. He got a helluva fright so now it's very clued up on it lol. Camping Car Park areas are brilliant and very cheap. Have an amazing time xxxxx
Aww thank you 😄❤️🏴☠️
I have a dog like yours calldjade
Awesome video ladies! Wasn’t the Chunnel great? I was on a bus tour from England and we didn’t even know we were moving. Be safe!!!
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Went to Ypres when I was in the RAF. Did a road marching event there. Also got to attend a Last Post ceremony in uniform. Had a wonderful time there.
Wow brilliant
Ypres is virtually impossible to pronounce for Brits. I once met a Belgian couple and they call it Wypers.
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Have a great adventure love the flog I’m a ex continental lorry driver and watching were you are going is great Brugg is lovely drive safe you two Bonjour 😂
Awesome! Thank you!
Wonderful video!! Can't wait for the next one----stay safe! xx 🙂
Thanks so much! 😊
Should have given me a shout out when you were in Milton Keynes, we could have had a coffee. Bon Voyage me hearties.
Next time! 😄🏴☠️
Brilliant vlog as always....thanks for sharing xxxxx you take care xxx
Thank you, you too 😄❤️🏴☠️
Wow I had to do a double take on that Beanie. Bundaberg Rum. I live in Bundaberg. X
Brilliant - it was sent along with some gorgeous Bundaberg Rum from a viewer 😃🏴☠️❤️🥃
Thank you for your video seeing Dunkirk was emotional because my dad was one of the last to leave on a little boat xxxx
Oh wow
Heidi, wrong side of the road, no !!! now you are on the right side , i wish you a nice trip, please take care, regards from germany
😂😂 thank you Peter 🏴☠️
Hello Heidi and Bonny and Sandra and Sandra's furry kids -- what a lovely video. I am super excited to be taking this trip with you. I made it through passport check - Subscriber Passports are good anywhere it seems. Dunkirk was amazing and you could sort of feel the history there - so many gave so much to keep us free - God bless them and their families. We in the US don't really know about a lot of this because we don't live there so I am am grateful for you taking us along and sharing all of this with use. See you next week ... Hugs to you all from Gramma Lainee and may we all come to know peace in our world
Thanks for joining me Gramma Lainee 😄🏴☠️❤️
Safe travels ladies. Thanks for taking us along. Best wishes, Deb
Thank you! You too!
Last post always tears me up😢
Thanks for the video it shows us Symbol owners how easy it is to get to France!
Aww thanks - they are amazing vans 😄❤️🏴☠️
Hi just started watching your videos keep it up , they fantastic
Thank you 😄❤️🏴☠️
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Can not hear you
Turn up the volume 😄🏴☠️
Welcome in my country : Belgium! You will love Bruges. For me, it's the most beautiful town i know. Thank you for your videos each week and have a nice trip.
Thank you! 😃
Bruges was gorgeous loved it ❤️
Heidi, your my role model & my hero❤🎉
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️
I love this video Heidi thank you for sharing your life and your friend. Safe travels ♥️
Thank you 😄
So enjoyed this video. Enjoy your trip and take care.
Thank you! You too!
Heidi hi, and Bonny & Sandra. Another great vlog.
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Be safe please..❤
Memories ...not quite as interesting but the same emotion taking car to Tasmania. Travelling with two! GR's! Sandra! an adventure- Bonny travelling well? Love the Bundy hat ( ex Queenslander)
Thank you❤ - safe,happy adventures to everyone Jan Adelaide❤
Bonny is loving it 🥰
Cosmo & Daquiri are the goldies 😁
Love the tune
Another great informative and entertaining video. Lovely dogs. Wilf the Wire Haired Fox Terrier barked along at Customs. Enjoy your holiday. Mark and Wilf on NB Lucy Ann. On the Golly. Xxxxx
Love it! Xx
I went to Bruges to see the Christmas Market in 2017. It was absolutely wonderful. I’m looking forward to seeing your visit there.🇨🇦
Loved your first video, see yas next week and stay safe
Thank you 😄
Il faisait plutôt froid en France. Je suppose qu'il y avait quelques gros tétons
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👍👌👏 2) Your friend looks sooo cute with her Bommelmütze (bobble hat?). Best regards, luck and especially health to all 5 of you.
Hi Heidi and Bonny, wow, what a adventure before dementia , it was amazing that train trip did you head under the Sea I never seen that before. Keep up the good work. Have heaps of fun. Hope you pick up a check/woman. I have some fun with LOL Cliff from Logan City, Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺 👨🏻🦽
Your video was so funny this week, well done making to France. Enjoy your travels. Bonnie she beautiful, I got a English bull dog her name Poppy. Lee
Fabulous, enjoyed watching Heidi. Can’t wait for more
Thanks for filming and coping with driving on the right in the dark! Interesting and important historical sites we should all visit. Bruge will be great and they have canals! Brexit is CRAP.
I've been following your travels, and I am really chuffed to see that you are wearing an Iconic Bundaberg Rum Beanie! from my state of Queensland!, keep up the great work.
I was holding my breath for you Heidi, arriving in France in the dark, on the wrong side of the road and where to go. We were scared arriving in the light. Belgium was the first time we saw REAL war damage, very sad. Have a great time mate I’ll be watching for more adventures. Take care lovely and Bonny. 💕
Awww grand so goid you have a friend with you all the dogs look happy tc now enjoy the adventure 👍👍🤗🤗
Really nice video - and it wasn't easy to make during a journey like this, I know!! John x
How wonderful to be able to travel with you and Bonny. Christmas market how awesome. thank you for sharing..
Great video, really enjoyed it 😄
Thank you! 😀
Thinking about Bonny and how she does w/other dogs around her... how wonderful for you and her.
Looks like the start of a great adventure, good luck. Enjoyed seeing Ypres and the Menin Gate my grandad was awarded the Military Medal there during WW1. The soldiers struggled with the pronunciation and used to call it Wipers. (Should be ee-pruh)
Best of both worlds. So lucky living the dream im looking at doing one or the other boat or campervan cant decide
This was fantastic to see - alway enjoy your travels - I have never seen the last post at the Menin Gate but on my to do list now as my Grandfather fought and was wounded at Ypres - he was one of the lucky ones who survived - as someone said below the troops called it Wipers and the newsletter that went along the trenches was call the Wipers Times