Everything has changed | What’s next?

Everything has changed | What’s next?

Bit of sweat what is it Porky sweat Porky sweat it’s parari sweat parari swe parari parari Porky sweat well I I think Porky sweat is the better brand anyway hello welcome back to the channel it’s been a very very long time long time indeed a

Long time and we are not in a van like we had intended to be we’re in barley right now temporarily for a week cuz it’s Christmas merry Christmas happy New Year but we thought before we actually start uploading again cuz we’ve got some videos coming out edited there’s

Spiciness coming crackers spicy wiy um well I say that our content isn’t particularly great but anyway there’s something coming anyway we’ve got videos coming but we thought first we should sit down and tell you where have we been what’s going on what’s the plan we’re both teachers in an international school

In changai which has sort of been somewhere we wanted to move for a long time we lived in P in Thailand what are you doing I don’t know what to do this is technically our first ever sit down video I have a really bad cold my throat’s really bad because the kids at

School have given me disease illness yeah working in school it turns out you get ill every week yeah I’m on a high at the moment I can speak and breathe normally Dom’s well and I’m not and then we’ll probably switch next week we’re in barley on holiday and we have moved to

Thailand that is sort of our punchline update we’re in we’re in Bary for a week but we’ve moved to Thailand and we’re going to be making videos about Thailand because we’re in Thailand most of the time the last time you saw us was in Hiroshima which was a while

Ago feels like a lifetime ago it does it feels like years ago to be honest but it was six 7 months ago April or May was it may or April April April long time so it’s been kind of daunting to pick the camera back up because it’s been so long and

Just Liv’s happened and our plan was to travel Europe in a van and then the van blew up in good always away fashion it always goes wrong had to change direction and we have moved to Thailand um so what which might sound very random but if you

Know us you know that we always end up back in Thailand it always results in a flight back to Bangkok and there’s a good reason for that because it’s the best place on in the world it’s the best place in the world yeah we always come back look the Ties

You’ve Charmed me the food you’ve Charmed me the culture you’ve Charmed me the scenery you’ve Charmed me the cost you bloody World charm me so what more do you want yeah so we’ve moved to Thailand we did live in Thailand 5 years ago in P which is just

East of changai where we are now that 2 hours driving yeah and P’s a bit Ral so we decided we want to be in the north but we chose changai where there’s a bit more going on and our plans for this year are to show you Thailand and for

The foreseeable basically we don’t plan on leaving Thailand anytime soon we’re going to be traveling around we’re learning the language so we can try and give some more insight than your average TR ning no ning noi for the last few months we’ve just been sorting our life out basically integrating into the

Country getting a house importing the dog which I did Dom came to Thailand first he got the house he organized jobs and then I sorted out the dog flew it sounds like I did a lot of the of a lot of the work there but actually the

Hardest part was probably the packing up in the UK all our belongings into to 23 kilos yes and then importing a dog to Thailand we’ve done it before so it wasn’t so bad but there’s so many steps that you need to follow and one little mistake you have to restart so it’s

Really high pressure but it’s not it’s not even just the paperwork it’s the stress of actually having him on the plane barking annoying people and he was going mad in the airport making so much noise I thought I wasn’t going to be able to board it was hell but then as

Soon soon as we got on the plane the sound of the engines just made him go to sleep thank God and he slept most of the way here he was in cabin with me um he’s just small enough where he could sit by my feet and yeah it went smoothly I met

Dom at Bangkok Airport and he’d organized a taxi like a a pet taxi service from Bangkok all the way up to S did 18 hours of travel stop over in where did you stop at Zurich Zurich now initially I wasn’t actually going to meet him in Bangkok but I decided to

Anyway surprise she was a bit underwhelmed with the the the further 12-hour Journey that we had to do in a Pet Taxi now luckily it was reasonably comfortable nice Le leather seats and airon but when you’ve been on a plane for 18 hours I can’t imagine that was

The longest journey of my life and I’m just so glad you were in Bangkok because trying to just heave the dog and the luggage to even just out side to the taxi and we were sharing it weren’t we with a fellow Frenchie Frenchie so their

Owners sat in the front and we sort of had the back but we was able to split the cost and we paid £70 for a 900 km trip yeah that’s not bad eh for 12 a 12-hour Journey 75 quid for the airport from you to New Forest from the moment

So we didn’t even get to this stage on YouTube when we were on our starting off our travels in the UK we were in The New Forest forest and after 6 months of discussions there was suddenly an epiphany and that Epiphany happened in the New Forest 140 later on Emma’s

Birthday I was Suddenly at heo yeah so not the best birthday was it yeah it’s quite a weird sort of chain and events that had happened we set off in the van to do a tour around the UK and irand to film it and we got to the new forest and

We’d been sort of debating do we go to Thailand or do we travel in the van for a while but for a few reasons Dom suddenly was like you know what maybe we should do Thailand and I was like yeah okay I want to do Island though first so

Oh yeah so you go you get set up because really you need to be there to organize the house the job you can’t do it online so Dom went the same day and then the next day I was like okay my first time driving the van on my own the first time

Traveling in like on my own in the van I went to get dog food at pets at home it was a heatwave I’d literally just come out of pets at home down the road and there was a loud bang and the engine just cut but I thought that the wheel

Had burst but actually the engine cam belt had just snapped and the engine is potentially a write off so literally the day after Dom went I was just starting an adventure on my own and the van that we’ve had for two years without really any problems literally died it was my

Optimistic and positive spirit that kept that van alive and as soon as IID left it was it all went Tod it was really strange because we’ve done so much driving in that van we’ve been up in the Alps we’ve been bearing in mind this is a 30 30-year-old van that’s done 40,000

M so it’s been well looked after it’s only done local driving now we have been driving it a lot more than than that but we had maintained it yeah but I won’t go into it too much but moral of the story is when you get your

Van service do not take it to a reputable expensive dealership because they don’t care because it’s a 30-year-old van so they didn’t tell me about the can Bel I I was like d we should take it to a new like a dealership where they they’ll know what

They’re doing but actually if you have a crusty old van don’t take it to someone who doesn’t know about crust St van take it to your trusted family mechanic where I wanted to go but we couldn’t yeah that it’s a long story I I had to get it

Recovered I had to get it recovered when I got broken down for 3 hours I was waiting on the road for 8 hours they had to get three different trucks to tow it back to Maidstone where I’m from oh um because originally they sent a truck

That was too small for it because of the overhang at the back and then they sent one that was so big it couldn’t access the garage and then I had to sleep in a car park with it and so then they sent a middle one that was just

Right basically yeah well it was a heat wave on the day and Percy was with me and all of our stuff and there was no Hotel available so in the end the first night I had to stay in a Depot with the dog it was just it was just such a weird

Kind of if I broke down the last 12 months we beer all year and you’d say I don’t believe you like it’s the The Day You Went day after you went first day on my own with Van life there is a lot of ups and downs it’s the charm

But I mean that was like there’s charm and then there’s taking the absolute yeah beep that it yeah but it just felt like a weird sign it was like Emma don’t go to Ireland maybe you’ll have a car accident I don’t know what maybe you

Have a car accident I don’t know it was just weird it was like God saying don’t go go your home Thailand is your home Emma yeah so and that’s what kind of happened I went back didn’t go to Ireland and then I flew to Thailand to

Me were D and here we are we’re here we we’ve spent the last few months getting set up and now we can start making videos again we’re ready to start filming and again so to the people that don’t follow us on Instagram thank you we hit 10K thank you because that hasn’t

Really we haven’t really just it because we didn’t upload it’s it’s it’s actually we hit 10K and then life just went and then yeah so it went thank you for 10,000 subscribers I can’t believe we haven’t uploaded in so long it’s actually embarrassing but it it’s like if you

When you stop filming it becomes scary to start filming and we’ve never done a sit down video and there’s so much I want to film and now we’re ready we’re ready so get seat belts in 2024 it’s going to be a cracker in Thailand Christmas

P yeah so you can expect the next upload very soon after this no more disappearing and go and follow us on Instagram because if we do stop uploading then you’ll know follow us please and no Emma that’s not going to happen Merry Christmas and we will see

You very soon so yeah if there’s anything in Thailand you want to see comment it below and let us know in the comments we need to hear you you we do why and on that note Bye

After a long break from uploading, we’re finally back! In this video we sit down and talk about what’s happened since you last saw us – including a big life decision we made in 2023. This decision has not only changed our lives but is changing the direction of the channel, and now that we have set up our new life across the globe, it’s time to bring you along for the adventure.

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We are Dominic and Emma. Travelling together as a couple for the last 10 years, we started off backpacking through South East Asia and in 2016 began vanlife as a means to travel with our pug, Percy. After years of van travel around Europe, and then Japan, we have taken the plunge to move to Chiang Mai Thailand, something we had always wanted to do. Now we’re working as teachers in Chiang Mai and we plan to show you everything Thailand!

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