TRAVELLING TO ITALY FOR A TRAIL RUN | SISTERS ESCAPE | FIRST TIME DRIVING ABROAD!

Heading to Italy my sister for the Valtellina Wine Trail Run with my sister – the usual chaos when we’re together!

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Hello there everybody. Um, I was going to say I’m Amy, but if you watch the channel, you know that’s Amy. This is my lovely sister Bethan. And today we are going to Italy. Ciao ciao. Very hyper. Basically, we’re going there for the Val Valina wine trail. So, we’re going to be staying in Northern Italy in Sandreo. It’s a 13 km trail run. There is an option for much longer ones, but because of me old knick-nacked ankle, which I’m hoping is going to be okay, we’re doing the 13k. But tomorrow, we’ve got a nice chill day. We’re going to do a little jog. Um, we’re going to go to the Met Helmet office. We not a cyclist. Oh, yeah. I can’t wait for that. Come along. And basically today’s video is just us traveling there, which consists of Kyle driving us to the station, going on a train to Manchester. I thought we were getting an Uber. No, Kyle’s driving us now. Well, I’m here, aren’t I? Saving money. Then we’re getting a flight from Manchester to Burgamo. Then we’ve got a 3-hour drive from Bergmo. It’s on. And I’ve got to drive. I’ve never driven a drive. Hilarious. The driving is bad in this country. I don’t think you would get to the Fiat 500 there. We’ve got a Fiat 500 on order and I’m scared but we’ll be all right. Really? But we got this mascot closer. I got you from from Greece. Well, don’t get too close. Be baffing. Shut up. What do you think? You like it? And then I made you this but you little tour to France champ. Thanks for that. I thought it said h. You had one of them. You had one like that on for the holiday tour. Well, yeah. This is Anyway, we better go to the airport. And the reason we’re going basically is because I want to escape this. But it’s not the reason. This is Josh. Hi guys. Seen Josh before. And what’s happening while we’re away? That’s going. Well, the whole thing’s going. The whole thing is going. So that’s all going to be the kitchen. Great. We’ve currently got no no sink and no cooker. So we’re living in an air fryer. New invention. Is that mom and dad’s wash it? I wondered where it’s gone this morning. I’m washing my cooker. Assist. Washing my cooker. The hob doesn’t work though, does it? Yeah. No, it doesn’t. Yes, it does. The hob works. Oh, that’s great. Don’t Don’t turn it on with the air fryer on it. No, don’t air fryer. Fantastic. I wonder where the air fryer was this morning. Right. Anyway, we’re going to miss the We missed the train. So, let’s go. Be you got your passport, Beth? Yes. Got a new passport. Actually, the blue one. I saw the picture on it. It was funny. Right, let’s go. Right. Just before we go quickly, I just realized that we meant to have water bottles and I’m pretty sure I ordered us some. Hang on. For the race, you have to have a little water bottle. Is that something? These little one. I assume you’re going to leave your rubbish there for now. I’ve only got one, Bethon. That’s fine. No, we have one in the cupboard, didn’t we? If not, I can just get all the cupboards. Yeah, all the bottles upstairs. I can get a plastic one from the shop. Okay, I’ll get I’ll just get a I’ll just get Just get one from upstairs. I’ll just buy a bottle. I’ll take this for the airport anyway. You fill it up for I go. Thanks, Kyle. Oh, right. We’re at Derby station. Bye, Kyle. How you going to survive without me? Sweetheart, the three nights on me. He’s just hooked. He’s going to enjoy it. But you can have pizza for every night. I’m going to enjoy it cuz I’ve got loads of work to do. Oh, sorry about those hot dogs out of I’ve got one pizza. I’ve got one pizza. Right, Olivoir. Kyle, there’s a sculpt. Beth said there’s a sculpture of Kyle up here. You There’s Kyle up there. Right, we’re on train new one. We’ve got to go from here to crew and then we get to crew. We have to change and go from crew to Manchester. Just painting my nails while we’re waiting. But it’s 9:48 and we get to Manchester at 11:48. So 2 hours of sit back and relax and listen to crew calling at Hampton Blidge Longton Stoon Trent K all ster and crew due to crew around 11:00 as you have just joined us at Derby on behalf of myself and the driver we’d like to welcome you aboard this even railway service we do hope you have a very good journey with us today if you happen to see anything suspicious or anyone acting suspiciously signs are on board any of our trains or any of our stations. Please do mention it to a member of railway staff or you can text the British transport police on 61016. See it say it sorted. Next station stop for this. Anyway, as I was saying, it’s time to sit back, chill, and relax and listen to people’s conversations. One of my favorite things to do is listen in. Do you like doing that? Oh, I love it. Especially at the airport people stressed. Yeah, people stressed running around. We’ll just sit and watch. Train number two, half an hour and then we’ll be at Manchester airport. Then Manchester airport. This train’s actually going to Manchester Piccadilly. Like piccadilly circus. I love that word. Padilly. Piccadilly. Peps on board. Oh god. Oh no. We’ve got an issue. It says our train that was just sat here in the stations now. It kept going later and later and now it just says delayed. Oh my god. Wait, the next one’s not until 12:16. What time is it playing? We would still make it if we got on that one in an hour, but we’ll be rushing, I bet. Oh my god. Delayed. Delayed. Why? Where’s the viney Manchester airport 1216? We’re going to sit here for another hour if it gets cancelled. But we’ll speak to them about this. It’s not going to get cancelled. It just says delay. But what’s happening there? If you are gone, it’s a safety enhancement. Let’s not turn off. The doors are shut. The engines are coming on. Oh, we’re going. Brilliant. Going this way. I thought we were going to be going that way. So, we’re going to be on time. It’s only 3 minutes late. Bye, suckers. We’re in the airport now. Airport tip. Always bring an empty water bottle. Get free filled water. Don’t be paying £4 a bottle in Smith. £24 a bottle. No, no, no. Free mine. Betham will be buying hers cuz she didn’t bring a bottle, but I’ll sip mine while she spends £4. It’s bit noisy in here. We’re just having a quick lunch before the plane. So, I’ve gone for an avocado smoked salmon thingy above side of greens. Beth’s gone for salt and chili squid rings um and with a relish and some skin on fries and a don’t tell the mother some vodka Pepsi Max just to get me offline. On the vodka Pepsi Max, I’m on the water. So if you’re playing silly beggars later Beth won’t be happy. I won’t be playing silly beggars. Right. It’s time to embark on the flight. 2 hours 15 minute flight. You ready B? Fly with Ryan Air. Ryan Airing off me. Just enjoying an apple. 45 minutes left to fly. Right, we’ve arrived in Burgam mode and I’ve just been scared to my life because basically we’ve got a hire car. Never done it before. Never driven abroad before. So, this is going to be a first. The steering wheel is going to be on the opposite side to normal. We’ve got to drive on the opposite side to normal. And the man at the booth now waiting for this bus we’ve got to get giving us all this mus. No one on the bus, no driver. So, that’s great. Um, but I’ve had to pay €950 deposit. and he said if there’s any damages when I come back it could be €1,400 euros I might have to pay. So I’m really stressed now so I just don’t want to damage it. And he did give with me a leaflet which tells me how many damages damages currently on the car that’s all those crosses are the current damages. So it sounds like it’s been used for speed joy. We’re going to take a photo around the car today so that when we bring it back if they say oh that wasn’t there before I say look at this picture mate. Yes it was. Look at me. Oh yeah it’s Kyle. I’m going to drive really carefully like a snail. Stressed about it. And I did buy insurance as well. I have got insurance but it’s not through gold car. So the goldcom I wasn’t happy about that. He said I should have got it through them but I’m sorry. Hooked it all through Ryan Air. Okay. That’s what it did. Did you enjoy the flight? One minute. Callum. Um flight was rather uncomfortable if I was squished between Amy and this man. And every time I felt like I could drift off to sleep. I woke myself up cuz I was scared I was going to lean on him. Right. We found the car. It’s little Fiat. I’ve taken photos of it in case they try and say I’ve made some damage. We’ve got a 1 hour 50minute drive from here in Burgamo up to Sandreo. We’re out in the northern Italy. We’re in the Lombardi area. We’ve got a lovely airplane. We could put the Google Maps on there. I’m really scared cuz I actually got in the car and thought which one’s the breaky down cuz I’m on the wrong side. Normally that side. So it’s exactly the same. It’s just different side. Just imagine this. I’ve never driven one of these. Oh, the hand Oh, that’s You’ve never driven. Hang on. Can I take Is that in neutral? I can take my foot off, can’t I? Yeah. So, you got the handbrake. You need to put the handbrake down. Sorry. Right. Go back a bit. Back a bit. Oh, I’m a bit too far. So, when you’re coming out, you’re going to turn scared, Beth. Left. Right. I don’t know why I’m scared of driving a car, but I am. Right. Okay. Right. Just get into a comfortable position. I’m in a comfortable position. Right. Your handbrake down and indicate left. Where’s the indicate? Wait, hang on. The lights on. Oh, yeah. It’s a good one. Auto. Is it automatic? Turn that off then. Um, it’s in darkness now. You’ll have to cut the camera and see you later. Got to be seriously right. I’m keeping my eyes on the road, but it’s going well. We’ve got 40 minutes left to drive left. Is that right? Uh, yes. We’ve got 44 minutes and we’re coming through lots of tunnels like this. It’s The tunnels are massive. Absolutely massive. It’s It’s 10 Oh, he’s going fast. It’s 7:00 in the but here it’s 8:00 in the We’re both concerned about what we’re going to do about dinner tonight. I’m quite hungry. I’m not going to lie. Cuz we’re both hungry and Well, I think in Italy they eat late, so I think we’ll be okay. And my iPhone cable has gone bust. Oh, so now we can’t have any music. So now we we can’t have the satnav on there. So Beth’s got satnav. And so now we’re listening to Italian music. Beth, we can sing no rest for the wiki. Wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki. No, there isn’t going to be any rest of the wiki this time. We got to run tomorrow and run the next day. TTI TT FX top for an hour. We’ve made it to the hotel in Sandreo. Oh, it’s very dark for some reason. We’re on the third floor. For some reason, we’ve decided to go on the stairs instead of the lift. I don’t really like lifts. Yeah, it’s broken up. Doesn’t bode well for the trail run. What? Shoe cleaner. What’s this? It’s brush off. Don’t do the black one cuz that makes your shoe go black. Not with your white trainers, maybe. Right. Come on. It’s broke. Let’s get up this. What do you mean it’s broke? I turned it off. Oh, it probably just on I don’t know. Maybe it’s on a timer. Oh, we’re on number three. Here we are. Three. What number are we? This does not bode well for the trail run we’re doing in a few days time. 306. Go to the right. 306. Right. Bullet mode. Do you have a the key card? Yes, I do. Got the door knob. Oh, imagine we love co. Let’s do a room. Oh, do you have to put the key in? Single bed. Yes. Thank god. I’ll just share with your sweaty sweaty by the window or by the Oh, lights. Oh, yeah. You have to put your key put your key card in for the charger. Probably. Do you want to go by the window or by the door? Um, I don’t really mind. I’ll probably go around the door because I normally get up for a wing. Okay, I’ll go. It’s a nice little setup. The setup. What’s the bed feel like? Is it comfy? It look it looks hard. Let me That’s what I was thinking. Oh, actually it’s all right. It’s not too bad. It’s a bit small, though. Out in the night. They are quite small. Let’s have a look at the bathroom. Should we um I’m just happy for the roof to be honest to be in Italy. It’s quite big. Oh jeez. Um interesting. Oh, what’s that? What? That’s a bday thing. It’s where you wash your bum with. We might use that. They always have them. As long as he’s not. It’s all right. No skids in. It’s all right. No skids. Right. Anyway, we’re going to go and find some food now because we’re both absolutely starving. Had that piece of toast with avocado on and an apple and a pair and that’s about it really. I’m blooming starving. Ow. Pull the hair out. The room and a mini bar. Oh yeah. We won’t be getting anything out. Order some drinks from the mini bar. We can’t be affording that luxury. What’s this? I don’t know. That’s the menu for something. What’s the local menu? What’s in the mini bar? Oh, it’s empty. I got st in there. Right. Come on. Let’s go and get some pizza. Should we get pizza? Cuz it’s so late. Yeah, it’s 9:00. It might be the only option to get takeaway while in Italy. The pizzas are in. Oh yeah. No cheese for me cuz it upsets the old stomach. Cheese for We’ve got tono, mushroom, olive. in Italian. I don’t know what olive is in Italian. Don’t know much Italian to be honest, but I do know Millie. Thank you very much. Right, we’ve devoured our pizza. I’ve worked out that my sister’s got a problem with Diet Coke cuz it’s all your blooming drink and Pepsi Max. Got a serious problem. I prefer Pepsi Max. I don’t tend to do it in What’s the difference between Pepsi Max? Oh, there’s a big difference. Pepsi Max is the best. Like I hate to be honest. I wouldn’t normally drink this. It’s only cuz it’s only thing they could offer me. What’s the difference between Pepsi Max and Coke there? Well, same sort of vibe, chemicals, but Pepsi Max just tastes so much nicer. Just has a few extra chemicals, you know. And if anyone here prefers Coke Zero, Pepsi Max, you’re not walking on the right side of the tracks. Well, I don’t drink either of them, so sorry about that. But we just had equivalent to like a coffee cuz it’s a caffeine really, is it? Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t drink coffee either. Jump in there. I’m not going to jump in there. so much. Um, right, we’re going to go into snuggle now because it’s time to hit the sack, rest, and recover. We’re going to go and assess how comfy the bed is. Let’s hope it’s comfy. Oh, it’s actually quite cold. Well, it is actually. Right, we’re both tucked up in bed. And actually, although on first inspection, I did look at the bed and think that looks like a piece of cardboard out of a prison cell. It’s actually really comfy. It just goes to show you never judge a book by its cover. Never judge a bed. Looks can be deceiving. Yeah, cuz it’s actually got a firm bounce to it and it’s very springy. So, yeah, we are in separate beds and there’ll be no bounciness tonight because the men aren’t here. So, unfortunately, no hanky panky. But yeah, um so tomorrow’s plan is we’re going to go and see the Met Helmet office and we’re going to do Oh, I can’t wait for that. Be love doesn’t cycle so she’s not excited about that. And we’re also going to do a little trail run, aren’t we, to warm up? Yeah. Gear ourselves up because then the day after we’ve got the 13K trail race. It’s Valentina wine trail race. But we’re not racing. We’re just going to take it steady because have fun. I’ve had some tendonitis in my foot. So I’ve not just been running recently. So we’re just going to see how it goes. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be all right and then that will give me some hope. But yeah, I’m not on my best form. You’ve had shin splints. I seen splints and I was ill, but he just come back from recovery from the cold. So Beth’s more a runner than me though, aren’t you? So you’ll be I’m a runner. She’s a trap star. But I am thinking hopefully if we do the run tomorrow and my Achilles like my ankle’s okay, then that will give me some hope. But if it’s not okay, then I’ll have to carry up the wine. Yeah, you’re going to have to give me a lift up the wine trail because I I am doing it. So we’ll just have to go slow and enjoy it. Oh yeah, enjoy the views. views. Anyway, so this video has basically just been us traveling here, so probably been a bit boring for you, but the next video is better. What’s boring about me traveling on a plane with you? Yeah, I’ve just not really done much of it really. Sorry about that, but you know, all is good. All is to come. All the good stuff is to come. So, keep tuned. Stay tuned as they say in America. Is that what they say in America? Like and subscribe. No, I never say that. Oh, I find it really cheesy. Yeah, please don’t ever do that. Like and subscribe. I can’t do that. People actually say that. Seriously. I know. But I just feel like if people want to like and subscribe, they will. I don’t need to say it. Like people should follow my Instagram. They don’t. Anyway, right. Thank you so much for watching. I’m going to sip on my little wa. Is it drinking water here? Why we drink this? This is out the top. Let me try it. Um I don’t know if you meant to drink that. Tastes fine. I don’t I’m a bit funny. I’ve actually about to have water, but at home I have a filter, but that tastes okay. But there is some bottled water over there actually. Yeah, that was what’s concerning me. The fact that there’s water there, which makes me think, is it drinking water? Why you have water there? Well, if you wake up in the morning, I’m a corpse next to you. I know you’ve got water poisoning then. Yeah, I’ve died from water, bad water. But I don’t think that’s going to happen. Well, let’s hope not. This bottle really confuses me because on the plane it was confusing me cuz I’ve never used this bottle before. I was trying to push the lid down being like why isn’t it going down? It doesn’t. And when you pull it upside down it doesn’t spill lot. Well, just by the fact you went to get a ticket and there wasn’t even a cue to speak to the man. Look Beth doesn’t spill. It feels like it’s going to Sorry, I didn’t mean to squeeze it a bit. I squeezed it a bit by accident. Oh my god. Looks like I’ve wet the bed. You’re being dramatic. Oh yeah. When we went to get the car, I will tell you this before we go. So funny. We went to get the car from the higher car place and there’s like there’s a man sat behind the desk, but in front in front of the man there was a little screen where it said like tap here and you had to basically you just tap to say that you were there and then it printed you off a little ticket to wait in the queue. Basically they like bring the numbers up. Like there’s a screen with the numbers on. So obviously you get your little ticket. My mom was like 203 and there’s no one there and when 203 comes up it means you can go forward but obviously there’s no one there. So, literally the man was there and I was just here and I just went up and printed my ticket off and just gave it straight to him and he was just like, “What are you doing?” You’re only meant to do that if there’s loads of people there. But I think he thought you were taking the mick because you were like, “You’re not serving me, so I’m going to pretend to get tea.” And then he was really mad at me. He was like, “It’s €950 deposit. You get it back after.” I was like, “Okay.” He’s like, “But if there’s any damage on the car, you have to pay €1,400.” And I was like, “Right.” thinking, “Oh, great.” And then he said, “But if you buy if you pay £150 now, you don’t have to pay any deposit and then that covers you if anything if you make any damages.” But I said, “I’ve already paid my insurance,” which I did through Rhino, which was £25. So I said, “Well, I’ve already got insurance and I paid £25 for it, so I’m okay.” He was like, “With somebody else?” I was like, “Yeah.” He went, “Well, that’s different.” I was like, “Oh, yeah, okay. It’s good. Calm down.” So I had to pay £950. Now I’m really stressed because if there’s any dents or anything. What happens if they make up that dent wasn’t there and then it was? Or what happens if like a stone hits the car? Yeah. No, it’ll be fine. Can’t afford to pay that. Got the kitchen to be getting done. But they will put the 950 back in. Oh, they will. I’ll do otherwise I’m against the wall. Otherwise, I’m going to be eating rice and beans for the next month. That happens. Rice and beans. Better not tell Kyle. I messaged Kyle actually about it cuz I was stressed and he said don’t worry. Don’t worry, but be happy. I am quite a very careful driver. So yeah, she’s definitely very careful and slow. It’s like a slow people behind like eight people queuing up. I can’t even count on my fingers how many people over took us on a single road. People did keep overtaking me, but I was sticking strictly to the speed limit and I wasn’t going slower than it. I was going exactly on it. Clearly what you find is Italian people do not stitch. Yeah, in Italy they literally speed. They must all speed because I was going at the speed limit. I wasn’t going below it. I was going exactly on it. I was not cuz you kept telling me it was a 90 when it wasn’t to try and make me go faster. And I don’t want to I don’t know what happens if you get a speeding ticket in abroad. I If you’re in a foreign country and you get a speeding ticket, that might be really bad. I don’t know. But I wasn’t going to risk it. So we got here in one piece. We got here in one piece. We had some pizza and now we’re in bed. So, life is good. Life is very good. Life is always good if you got one of these buffet the breakfast style buffet tomorrow. I’m actually excited for breakfast. See what what there is. I do like a hotel breakfast. Well, I say that, but I don’t really actually cuz as long as they’ve got some form of cereal and some form of toast, I’m happy. I’m only really happy if they have porridge and fruit, but it’s a rare occurrence. So, I’m very picky. I’ve got to say I know who you are. I’m a bit of a cafe snob as well. We established that in America. So if they have porridge, I’ll be happy, but I don’t think they will cuz it’s not really an Italian delicacy. What about brand flakes? If you want me to be on the toilet all day, yeah, I’ll have them cuz brown flakes definitely make me go. I love brown flakes. Not ideal before a run. Definitely not. Um, cornflakes. No, I don’t like cereal. Wheat bits. Yeah, but that does make you go as well a bit. I think the only thing I eat for breakfast is porridge and fruit. Oh, great. So, if we’ve not got that, I won’t be very happy. I’m sure they’ll have Oh, I like eggs. Oh, crumbs. See, they normally have eggs, don’t they? Surely they’ll have eggs. Gluten-free bread. No. Yeah. Well, I know I can eat gluten a bit now. It’s better. It’s more the dairy that’s the problem. We figured out I cut the gluten out and it was nothing really changed, but I cut the dairy out and this is too much information now. Anyway, the stomach got better. Let’s just say the toilet. Sometimes sometimes I do go off the no dairy and I get tempted by chocolate or something and then I regret it immediately. Well, I regret it about 4 hours later. So, I couldn’t do it. But I’ve been doing really well with it. So, my spots are getting better for it, too. So, happy with that. Although, I have got a really big one here right now. So, it’s one came back to haunt me. Anyway, now we’ve been talking for eight minutes and you all know about our life story and spots and all sorts and our digestive issues. We’re actually going to go to sleep now. So, we’ll see you on the next one. Thank you so much for watching. TTCFN. Tata for now. Goodbye. Bye.