TURNED AWAY AT THE BORDER TO FIND THE PERFECT CAMPSITE 🇸🇮

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Жыл бұрын

Welcome to our favourite campsite in Slovenia! Camping Menina is the perfect holiday park, with excellent hiking, biking and rafting! Developed around a lake and river, and surrounded by mountains, ancient trees provide wonderful shade and the perfect setting for an adrenaline park!
Camping Menina : campingmenina.com/en/
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Our family have been roaming around the UK, Europe and US since 2007. We set off on each trip with only a rough destination in mind, allowing the roads we take and places we stop to evolve as we meet new friends along the way.
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@TruckingChippy75 Жыл бұрын

Videos are great, guys. We have been driving around Europe for 20 years as my wife is from Czech and we had a dog. This year is Czech again but we normally head to Slovakia, Austria, Poland and Hungary. Nothing beats a driving holiday in my opinion.

@pamelaschilling9464 Жыл бұрын

That's a good mom to go thru that obstacle course

@adrianholmes58 Жыл бұрын

I ham going to cape Verde in Feb. st George South Corfu July. Costas kalamaki zante September 2023😎👏💙

@jasonnewton7969 Жыл бұрын

Looks absolutely awesome!!!!! We used to go eurocamp all over Europe before my daughter was born then covid came 😢😢 So back in 2019 we were in the process of buying a tourer caravan but due to covid and been furloughed a lot we had to spend our savings 😢😢 so now we still have the towing car but no caravan and had to downgrade to a tent!!! keep posting though your holidays bring back soo many memories of us driving around Europe!!! We used to travel in a Mini Cooper s, also made it down do Rome 👌👌 anyway got to go swimming lessons for my daughter (4) 👌👌👋👋👋👋👋

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Enjoy swimming 🏊‍♀️

@derekmcfadyen127 Жыл бұрын

The high pitch scraping noise starlink makes when you push it across your solar panel 😅

@donna-trevorsintransit Жыл бұрын

Amazing job on the adrenaline lines Lyndsey. Bet you felt amazing afterwards.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

I did! And a little bit bruised too 🤣🤣

@annmills6184 Жыл бұрын

Just lovely, and Lyndsey you’re a super mum 👍

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ann x

@mickobrien6360 Жыл бұрын

What a great video, well done on the assault course, very brave. Thanks for sharing.

@Pugwash. Жыл бұрын

Well I'm knackered just from watching! Looks like you had fun there.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

It’s all fun and bruises!!

@diannebolton7693 Жыл бұрын

Well done Lyndsey our daughter and husband have 2 boys and it’s just gotta be done as a family, outdoor fun is a must😊

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

It was fabulous!

@sallybiddick Жыл бұрын

LYNDSEY🙌 my Shero!!! Wow! Best mum award to you x

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Ahh Sally, you are always so lovely!

@toniprrp Жыл бұрын

Another great vlog and well done to Lyndsay!! Wish you vlogs were longer xx

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Ahh thank you x

@denisecafferky2248 Жыл бұрын

Fair play Lyndsay doing that obstacle course 😄👍

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

It was so wobbly!!!

@flowersflowers473 Жыл бұрын

Well done Lyndsay!👏👏👏

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thank you x

@tonyblundal5763 Жыл бұрын

Entertaining Vlog as always both, thanks very much, Tony and Julie.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony x

@craigfraser9102 Жыл бұрын

What an amazing site ❤️💙

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

It’s glorious!

@pamelaselway6669 Жыл бұрын

Well done Lyndsey you did better than I would have. Very brave mom!

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thank you Pamela.

@sallymurray2147 Жыл бұрын

Great video so nice to see you all having a nice time together well done lyndsey for doing that course with the boys looks a really nice site you stayed at

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thank you Sally!!!

@BonkersAboutAlice Жыл бұрын

Best thumbnail of the day.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Ha ha, thank you x

@daviscrt Жыл бұрын

great video. thanks again Don

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Don x

@vivmatz1189 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting I love the family touch ❤ I prefer. Too our motorhome comes Tuesday xxx

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Viv x

@juliedawn4271 Жыл бұрын

Corfu I lived there for a long time

@CandA-Adventures Жыл бұрын

GREECE for sure!!!!! Great video as usual, thanks guys…..

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris!

@gillheath2545 Жыл бұрын

Lyndsey you did good 🤗,you will enjoy your cider later.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gill 🤣

@jackpalma3590 Жыл бұрын

I have to say I am glad I subscribed when Matt said to. It was great to watch you and your family enjoying you trip. We will be waiting to watch your next adventure from the U.S. state of Michigan. Be safe and enjoy your journey. Lyndsey well done on the courses, I would have been done in after the first one.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Welcome along!! Thank you Jack, I was done in 🤣🤣

@mosphere90 Жыл бұрын

Good video, thanks

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Pauly x

@bobehmann9859 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful video. I was referred to this site from Matt's RV Review. I'll be looking forward to viewing your other adventures.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Welcome along Bob!!!

@juliesmith9097 Жыл бұрын

Love watching your videos,sending you cwtches from Swansea xx

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thank you Julie x

@karlmabe1649 Жыл бұрын

Excellent fun

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@stuwardw Жыл бұрын

Great video, thank you! We are going to Montana, USA next summer to Glacier national park. We can't wait to see where you go.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Wo! Now that is a trip I’d love to do!

@franklee3705 Жыл бұрын

Wow! That campsite looked amazing! Well done Lyns for doing the assault course with the boys. I bet you ached the next day. I did the one at Milton Keynes at 60 and really ached for a couple of days after. Great video, thanks.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Frank!!

@000caro555 Жыл бұрын

Well done Lindsey. X top mummy. X❤

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thank you x

@andyeaton Жыл бұрын

Hi Steve. was nice to see you pop up on Urbans channel the other night as your guys installed the new Yianimize sign

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy, yes and they were taking the micky because I didn’t have my own camera men following me around like they do. Maybe one day mate.

@theabandonedhunter3604 Жыл бұрын

Awesome!! …. Smithy

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Smithy!

@geralddavis5171 Жыл бұрын

Thanks👍👍👍👍👍

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@westy1007 Жыл бұрын

Well I’ve definitely add3d this site to my bucket list, looks Uber friendly and amazing, great vlog as always, oops the Go Pro

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

@gaynorprior344 Жыл бұрын

Lyndsey you are an awesome lady I don't know at any age I could have done that,well done wonderful camp site hated the spider though x

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gaynor!

@BellasBigAdventures Жыл бұрын

Well done Lindsay you’re a braver woman than me tackling that assault course 😂 the camp looked great.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

It was so wobbly!

@teresawright5326 Жыл бұрын

Haven’t had a holiday for 4 years and that was a long weekend in Devon. Can’t afford it. My daughter likes Ibiza old town and Kassiopi In Corfu. My 3 sons like Tenerife.

@ari.voutilainen Жыл бұрын

My inner nerd 🤓is thinking… Is there a way to put some kind of a permanent bracket on the roof for the satellite antenna? Like a tube or something where you could just stick the antenna pole. The four-leg furniture stand does not seem like a very practical solution. 😊

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Ari 😊

@deenunya7735 Жыл бұрын

Steve,Stop Biting Miss Lynns 😇 It does look a great Place , esp its in the Trees as you say , bags of Shade

@carltonailey1942 Жыл бұрын

We are doing our very first motorhome holiday next June and we are heading to Scotland for 2 weeks and hoping to do the NC500 as well. We love the channel btw

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

The NC500 is stunning!

@patriciadrysdale731 Жыл бұрын

good on you Lyndsey for doing the coarse with the boys. rather you than me I hate heights thanks xxPat

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

I don’t mind heights, but I really dislike wobbly things!

@adrianwestwood550 Жыл бұрын

Hi Steve and Linz Ady&val here (with the bulldog at Lincoln) where did you try to exit Croatia? We exited Croatia into Slovenia at Pasjak border control on the E61 in June No problems whatsoever then straight into Italy at Pesek! looking forwards to your route to the Grossglockner😁

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

I think the problem was just that it was a tiny border crossing and they didn’t have the stamps etc x

@2010katak Жыл бұрын

Regarding plans for next year, Morocco and then if possible a ferry to Madeira.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Oooh, what a wonderful idea x

@JensGraikowski Жыл бұрын

Brexit: the gift that keeps on taking! Glad you found a way around it and got into Slovenia after all. 👍🏽😉 How the British ever got conned into voting for Boris and his cronies I'll never understand! 🙄 That adrenaline course looks like loads of fun! Linds' looks so gracious! 😁 All the best! 🙏🏽😎

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jens!

@samanthalaaissaoui3237 Жыл бұрын

We doing a trip down to Morocco. Go to Morocco u will love it!!!

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

It’s definitely high up the list!

@bigd2679 Жыл бұрын

Go to Morocco. Its beautiful

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

We would love to!

@mat5726 Жыл бұрын

We are trying to get a road trip around British Columbia in a massive RV!

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Ohhh that sounds marvellous!

@lynmoore8355 Жыл бұрын

well I have to say we are doing next year holidays on our very first river cruise..... 2023... was suppose to be 2020 but covid stuffed that up, was 25 years of married life but now it will be 27 years of married life and a 60th birthday.... woohoo.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

That sounds wonderful Lyn x

@alanwilkins139 Жыл бұрын

❤️👍

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

😍

@criticalcuda Жыл бұрын

My favourite country to tour is Morocco , not sure if kids would enjoy it , it’s like stepping back in time ,it will be like nothing you’ve experienced , also love Bulgaria and Romania for the same reasons , I also enjoy the more usual safe countries but as you said ''nothing good ever happens in you comfort zone '' 🥴😁

@criticalcuda Жыл бұрын

I’ll add I do touring on a motorcycle ,

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Wow you have had some incredible adventures!!!

@tilerman Жыл бұрын

Hi Brian, happy to hear you had a good time in Morocco. I went with the plan of touring for a few weeks and had a terrible time to be honest. We went up into the Rif mountains, and had nothing but hassle from officials, the Police, the locals and the endless stream of kids following us everywhere. It seemed everyone was trying to have us over. The Police actually came to where i was staying to look at my passport, and they wouldn't give it back until i paid them. Same with officials that got onto the bus we were on. Pulled into a coach station in the middle of the day and some kids tried to grab our bags from the coach hold. Everywhere we ate the bill was a conveniently rounded up price. Horrible, my head was always on a swivel! After 2 weeks had had enough, went back down to the port and headed over to southern Spain and chilled in Tarifa for a month.

@criticalcuda Жыл бұрын

@@tilerman shame , never had trouble off the police the few times Iv been , we are travelling on motorcycles ,not that that should make any difference , I know what you mean about getting bombarded with the hard sell , only ever had it in Marrakesh ,hated the place , but we ride down to merzouga staying in different hotels ever night and can honestly say we have never had any agro , people have always been helpful and pleasant , but saying that I have heard of couples being targeted by the hard sell and con artists . Im back for a 3 week trip in March so I’ll see if much has changed in the past 4 years 👍 shame you had a bad experience ,

@ambydaly5713 Жыл бұрын

Wot no pool?

@pedrosamdias Жыл бұрын

Hi all. Non video related question. Where motorhome owners leave them if they live in flats around London ? Or we need to have a house with enough space... With working from home and no kids we could do a lot of travelling, but we don't want to have to buy a house just to park the motorhome when we in London (meaning move outside London)

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Hey Pedro, I’m not sure about London but I know there are many motorhome storage facilities or farms that store motorhomes around where we live so I guess there will also be some around London that people use

@pedrosamdias Жыл бұрын

@@RoamingRadfords Thanks, I manage to find some around, was using the wrong words to search it :)

@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204 Жыл бұрын

good vid thanks lee

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Thanks Lee x

@agriben7591 Жыл бұрын

ah one of them zip line things i really wanna have a go on one

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

The zip line was awesome, the climbing and wobbly bits - not so much!

@doubledutch13 Жыл бұрын

Oh wow one for the top of my list. How do the cater for disabled people? Is it suitable?

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure, i didn’t notice any provision, but I also didn’t notice that there wasn’t any provision either - if that makes sense.?

@Slots-Room Жыл бұрын

my next trip will be Croatia Montenegro Kosovo visiting the Mounting in the town Peja, Albania east Grecce (Nei Pori Platamon Kastri Pori Beach going down to Kouloura Beach), and back Albania Croatia

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Sounds wonderful!!

@helenreasbeck1348 Жыл бұрын

Looks like our kind of campsite, pity our kids have grown up I’ve nobody to drag me on a zip wire now sadly 😞 still young at heart and up for a challenge, well done Lynds 👏🏻 wish we could travel for 6 weeks next year

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

I’m not looking forward to travelling without our boys!

@aclassrv85 Жыл бұрын

You lucky rascals, wish I could travel in mine as much as you, can I be cheeky and ask how you support yourselves and also how much more difficult is it now to travel in Europe in brexit? mine is a little more difficult to travel in as my channel shows haha

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

We own a business at home. And this is now our full time job, so we are working on building our income from the channel

@aclassrv85 Жыл бұрын

@@RoamingRadfords Good for you, I shall keep working on ideas to be able to travel full time 😥

@stevedove2954 Жыл бұрын

North Wales lol 🤪

@criticalcuda Жыл бұрын

Which Croatian border crossing did you get turned away from please ? Is it the first time you have come across this ,Iv not heard of this happening before 👍

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

We were turned away at a small border crossing on the 675 at Bragana and was told to cross at the nearby motorway A2/E70

@criticalcuda Жыл бұрын

@@RoamingRadfords thankyou , we usually try and cross at small crossing but haven’t heard of this before , will do a bit of digging , that info has been very helpful , thanks ,

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

@@criticalcuda we also love to cross at the smaller borders, but believe this will be the same at all the small borders now, forcing us to cross at the larger motorway border crossings

@umnounou Жыл бұрын

I want to tour Algeria with my new caravan

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Wow, that will be an adventure!

@IANREA Жыл бұрын

Police in France are now checking your fuel tank before they allow you access to petrol stations… if you have too much in your tank, you are turned away. Shortages in France are forcing people to wait in lines for hours to get only a partial refill of fuel. In the news today

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Yikes!!

@nigelbrooks3606 Жыл бұрын

Pitty we aren’t so strict guys!

@dukeofdevon5608 Жыл бұрын

Is that a different van?

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

No, that’s the one we bought in Feb.

@pauld3638 Жыл бұрын

Awesome campsite for all the family. I can see my bank balance is going to get hit real soon for a camper.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

It’s certainly worth it if you can!

@joegrapeape6334 Жыл бұрын

Any plans to do North America?

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Yes, for sure. It would be nice for an RV rental company to sponsor the trip by lending us an RV for a few weeks if you know any contacts Joe 😉

@joegrapeape6334 Жыл бұрын

@@RoamingRadfords Maybe Matt from Matt's RV Reviews can help you.

@margaretcoyle4224 Жыл бұрын

Hi guys boys are getting big .enjoy your holidays it’s against the law for anyone to hold your passports x

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

They gave them back as soon as we turned around 😊

@angelabutterworth8816 Жыл бұрын

So brave to do that Lindsay, why didn’t Steve do it instead.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

Because “someone needs to film”… Also I’m the brave one!

@angelabutterworth8816 Жыл бұрын

What’s up Lindsay can’t you hold a camera.

@Mansviews Жыл бұрын

Never give your passports to anyone, especially leaving them with them..

@gordonjohnston684 Жыл бұрын

Its typical EU Bureaucracy, why make it difficult for people to spend money in their country, as if a family from the UK travelling in a hundred grand motor home isn’t going to return.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

I understand what you are saying. But we are just being treated like every other non EU member who needs a stamp and computer tracking to prove their “90 day” status. I imagine the cost of putting all that equipment and extra staffing at every minor border crossing is huge. EU citizens can flow freely between countries, we no longer can, so we have to go to the major crossings so we don’t get banned for “overstaying”. The tricky thing is to know which crossings are which and to avoid the minor ones now. I’m sure there is something/somewhere that will tell us. I’ve just not spent enough time thinking about it.

@Vulpes10 Жыл бұрын

It seems strange that you kind of blame EU countries for border problems although it was the UK who decided to leave the EU.

@RoamingRadfords Жыл бұрын

No we don’t blame the EU. We were frustrated that the boarder crossing we first attempted to use was only for EU citizens. This was a new scenario for us, before we tried to cross we didn’t know that some crossing points aren’t open to all people