NO OVERNIGHT PARKING for one night! We really struggled to find a park up and only wanted a cheeky get away one for an overnight. We ended up trying 4 different ones as we found out our favourite one had recently had no overnight parking signs put up. We ended up at North Froddingham which has an honesty box, but what’s happening in the UK? We feel one has gone due to a local pub wanting to capitalise on the growing van community.
We made the best of a bad situation and still enjoyed our cheeky getaway.
00:00 Introduction
04:50 Show you Around
06:37 Drone Footage
07:07 Going for a bike ride
11:08 Verdict of park up

A bit of a nightmare aren’t we it’s been one of them days is it one of them days so our rugby team was getting absolutely trounced it was the semi-final to get them in the Grand Final was it yeah to lose to Cataline in the final but they

Didn’t to get they didn’t manage to get there so we thought right let’s jump in the van stick some stuff in for overnight and find a wild camping spot that was the plan so our first one that we love which is I will go to just for

An another night you just I don’t know what made you do it but you just checked I’ll just have a look see if there’s any recent reviews and uh apparently the last review said there’s now some no overnight Sands have gone up and it is literally in the middle of nowhere it’s

A Canal Trust car park um we only ever ever ever saw one other van there didn’t we yeah there was always plenty of room for people come down do workers people come fishing and stuff like that um we did walk to the local pub um in the Village near it

Didn’t we once and she happened to mention that the villages was um mouring and mouring about it all these camper van is like oh there’s hardly any there and the national the river Canal Trust don’t don’t maintain it and that’s funny they’ve all they’ve just put loads of

Ballads up and stuff and uh then we found out that she’s opening an a not yeah like the pub it pub stop and uh yeah already got bad reviews because somebody wanted to do a pub stop and they told them uh they said yes and then

They said no you’ll have to go on the field and pay more money so looks like that’s it’s say that’s been well it’s that that couple that’s been pushing for it to be no eight parking still going to check it though yeah we are still going

To check it and if there’s nobody about at the other no we’re not no we’re not no no no we’re not oh oh no no no we’re not we do something like that no we’re not we no we’re not um so that’s another one gone another parking place gone and and it’s

Not a case of Van lifers ruining it for everybody and turning up in the droves and leaving a mess the other van we used to see there occasionally um that was the same as us they used to pick up the rubbish that other people had left didn’t they 99% of

UNL is all that so so then we went on to plan B Plan B which was in the middle of nowhere and looked okay on P for night but then when we got there it was a little bit small we wouldn’t have been able to turn the van around full of

Poles um already a couple of cars there for dog walkers if we depart there there would be no room for anybody else which is something that again we don’t like doing do we no you got to leave some space for the local don’t you yeah and

So right was like okay we’ll go to plan C plan C yeah went to C which was a park up um next to a canal in a little town of dri field W it dri in East yorshire and right we’ll go there can have a walk around the town see what’s going on

Maybe make a a Blog out of it got there there was already three campers yeah and for us to park we would have had to pick sad on so then we would have been right in front of people’s windows so we didn’t want to do that cuz

That’s something else we don’t do that was another one out the window so then went to plan what we on d d Plan D Plan D and we’ve come to um another Canal Park up it’s an honesty box and it’s in frodingham and the I I jumped out the

Car I jumped out the van to come and check the ground see whether or not we was going be able to get level and the Mis had already come out and started checking yeah he s I’ll get you a space house so we felt obliged but anyway it’s

Nice it’s nice um everybody’s gone now everybody’s gone yeah I don’t know we don’t smell it’s 5 to launch your dingies and your paddle birds off of you and that goes over to the trust the Canal Trust or something don’t it the Canal Trust or his back pocket I don’t

Know but it’s definitely one of the two but um so we’ll show you have a little show around and um we’ll try and make a vlog out of it I don’t know how much we’re going to get and we’ll just let you see what’s see at we’re going to

Have a little wand tomorrow AR we on the bakes we’re going to have a w on the bakes well shut up that’s an oxymoron I’ve ever heard one what what I don’t know I just made that word up I didn’t make that word up but I don’t really

Know what it means I just started throw it in look s clever hey let’s turn you around and show you where we are it’s got dinghy in case Darren Falls in or in case I push him in is that a dingy not Dy what’s God it’s got a

Life life belt yeah life belt in case I Daren in a rubber ring oh yeah you can see the bottom oh yeah oh right clear it’s not about that you said you wanted to do some uh coldw swimming yeah this is a says it’s picnic badge uh you

Can have some much to wait on here oh wobbles don’t know about that love what that one that’s full of water well look it’s just a to look at the electric cables onto a to a battery nearly oh yeah I W lean on this I lean on that that’s a nice size

Paddle board I bet I won’t for I bet I could stand up on that yeah that’s like one of them yoga boards is it I think you can H them get you on that in morning I ain’t got me wet stuff with me I just thought your brown knickers right

In the middle of nowh nice Church of there you’re going to up there you’re going to get the you’re going to get the big dick out tomorrow you big Dick’s coming out Sunday morning hopefully we’re open the the clouds break up a little bit cuz there’s a meteor shower

Forecast tonight is they well next few days until Tuesday was like a bird looking for our Canal wildlife and then honesty bocks there we are the drift field Canal system and the drift rail Canal Just trying to look as I’ve only got one chin go I can’t do it I can’t do it have to go back to fortunes we’re going on a bike rad aren we only a little bike rad it’s a miserable Autumn morning is it it’s just gr and miserable but just

Going to get a little bit of exercise get the out pumping a bit oh God what they called yours is called Valkyrie R of the valkyri r of The Valkyrie M was Christopher oh yeah was what was your adding Christopher Christopher Compass Christopher Compass Christopher Compass cuz he texes us on a

Journey instead of Columbus so yeah tell we take a lot of drugs can drugs the drugs don’t work love i’ been sniffing salvate all morning wait we’ll take you on Old Journey see you soon so we’ve just stopped con for conquers a’t we love but you found some interested

Yet well I don’t know if these are blue blueberries oh no black Thorns black Thor I don’t think you can eat them Lord I thought it was going to save as a fortune hang on hang on yeah you can eat them I’ll take take them home you’re

Going to do me a nice pie or something yeah I’ll do you no I’ll just put you can have Black Thorn tea I think I saw your pension statement exactly I know I knew exactly where he was going with that yeah oh how much is he worth

Dead bless if if you die while in service oh yeah you’ll be loading yeah yeah but you’ll have nobody to put the bins out anyway show everybody what you’ve just found I just seen found another one there on the floor yeah but that’s not as good as the

Other one that’s a bit muddy that one look at the size of that at coner Central around here is it it is it is considering oh that’s a cracked one there though which one that one is it oh yeah yeah that’s not good I I’ll keep

That one I’ll play I’ll play with you against that one you play with me conquers oh it’s Sunday can’t do what I need more hands coners everywhere you’ve even got one still in its shell okay one one there like little baby wants to come out Darren

H there was a waight limit on the Van We found dinner what do you think to this park up then what you come back um that’s all right it’s all right cuz it’s close to us is it if it was a long way away I won’t come back no I won’t it’s all right you got the canal

And got some walks and Baker rods near here yeah we did was all right on the but few flies is they it’s a bit warm would got the paddle board out on that cuz the water’s really nice and clear it was actually yeah I’m surprised how

Clear the water was I’d go on this water I won why they might have water snakes and Eels and stuff see what I have to PO up with you got fly on the back of your head unpopular help it people and things like me where you

Going just messing out yeah I am yeah yeah that’s all right it’s another Sunday done another weekend gone and uh what we got planned what we got coming up ooh next weekend weekend babysitting weekend after we’ got a Long Weekend off yeah we have cuz it’s our

Anniversary isn’t it so yeah we probably bring you more content then weekend after we’re off to scabra to watch fireworks yeah we probably yeah the weekend after we’re off to willowfields to watch the silent fireworks yeah I’m going meet up with some friends then I don’t know that’s to far from a brand

But then we’ve got other things planned yeah we got other things planned then it’s nearly Christmas so it’ be old Christmas oh going y Chistmas yeah well no when yeah you’re at Christmas Market Christmas will probably won’t be putting anything out cuz it’s family time is’t

It oh God you the grand kids come around don’t they by see you later bye bye

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  1. See you at the weekend guys as we are at Willow fields as well. Going down Friday night after work until Sunday, We have asked for hard standing though as don't fancy getting stuck in the grass with all this rain we are getting 👍

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