Thank you so much, glad you liked it. Stick around for our video on how much it cost, coming soon!!

Thank you so much! There are so many van tour videos on KZfaq and it’s great to see ours got a positive reaction!

Thank you Hazel. Yes, there's a lot of safety regulations here in Australia - maybe we will do a video about them! We had to have both the fire extinguisher and the CO2 monitor in order to have the van certified as a motorhome (amongst other things). We figured that was the best place for the fire extinguisher close to the stove.

Dammit! I hope no one would notice that slight slip of the tongue. Of course I meant junk drawer

Thank you 🙏 One has to get innovative with such a small space!

Same here. Love the clever storage under the bed, the practical sink and that garage. By far the most clever design I’ve ever seen. 👋🇨🇦

@@esthers5772 thank you Esther. It’s great not to worry about where to put things

It's great isn't it?

Thanks Leanne. Sometimes we pinch ourselves and say "Can you believe this is our life? this is our home? and we created it?" I'm sure you know the feeling!

Thank you Michael. Life’s too short to live small!!

Thanks so much Nicole 😊

Welcome aboard! The KZfaq algorithm is a strange thing, that’s for sure! We recorded this video over two years ago. But we are still living in this van, and still travelling around Australia. Hope you enjoy the journey.

Thank you very much Nick. :-)

Cheers Nick!🙏🤙

Thanks so much for watching.

Thanks Cheryl. We have a full video of how we created the bed. Definitely one of our favourite parts of the van build

Thanks! We watched a lot of van tour videos before we started the build!!

Pretty cool hey? Thanks for watching.

Dank u wel, Leon! We love the Netherlands, and hope to be able to travel Europe in a van soon.

Thank you Cheryl. We love it too 😊❤️

Thank you so much guys ❤️❤️

Thanks so much! It’s a wonderful lifestyle

Bahahaha, yeah I would not get that excited about a spice rack.

Thank you Jennifer. Thanks for watching

Thank you! We put a lot of thought and planning into what we wanted and why, even before we started the build

Thanks for watching Dina! ❤️❤️

Thanks so much guys. It’s so satisfying cresting your own home, isn’t it?

Thanks Kathy 😊😊

Thanks so much Andy! It’s been 3 years living in it now, it’s a great lifestyle!

Thanks so much for watching! Hope you enjoy following our travels

Thanks guys. The hard work is definitely worth it!

Thank you! The only problem with installing an aircon is the power it takes to run it. We would need more batteries and more solar

@@nigelandsueadventures true! I would end up breaking the bank to keep cool 🤣

@@kiwigirljacks get good vans/ventilation and you’ll be fine

Thanks Amanda!! We love our tiny home, glad you like it too

Oh cool! Would love to see your build!

Thanks so much Robert. Fortunately we haven’t had to make the quick pyjama exit yet, but it’s so reassuring knowing the possibility is there!

@@nigelandsueadventures unless you don’t wear pajamas 😉

@@robertdragoff6909 haha true that!

Thanks Angela! We are pretty happy with our design.

Thanks for watching Mel, we are glad you enjoyed it. Its wonderful to relax in the van after all our hard work!

Thanks so much for watching. We have quite a few videos of our travels up already, we were just a bit slack with getting this van tour video uploaded!!

Thanks so much guys! We love it too! It’s been our home for over 18 months now. Very comfortable

Muchas gracias 🙏

Thank you!! I am constantly amazed at how Nigel manages to bring my crazy ideas to life.

Thanks so much Camilla! We hope to come to Europe and travel in a van (maybe not this one) in the next couple of years.

Great: let me know, by then. I have bought a VW LT35, from 1986 and will begin converting in 1-2 yrs time. My plan is to go full time van life, which is VERY rare in Denmark and also for people on my age (54) 😂 My two grown up sons think it's cool, and family and friends are looking forward to follow the adventure. Best of wishes for you two and your journey: Camilla PS: do you follow Snow & Curt? They travel around the World for 10-12 yrs. Say HI from me, if you catch up with them ☀️

We are about the same age, and it’s not so common here in Australia either! We have both spent quite a bit of time in Europe, we worked for a coach tour company there back in the 90s. We’ve been to Denmark several times (though only really Copenhagen) We have watched a few of Curt & Snows videos. There’s also John & Mandy from the UK. Thanks again for watching and connecting!

Thanks so much, it’s functional and pleasing 😊

Thanks so much Tony!!

Thanks so much Colleen, are you planning your own build?

@@nigelandsueadventures As cool as it would be, I doubt it. However I admire those of you who do!

Yeah we got super lucky when we found it.

Thank you!!

Thanks for watching! 😊

Thanks so much! We absolutely love it

Thank you! We are so happy with how it turned out.

Oh cool! What sort of work do you do? I was a makeup artist for 20 years. I did TV but not really film work

@@nigelandsueadventures woah no way! I love acting and want to do that eventually but I pay the bills by being a casting director's assistant.sometimes fill in as a set PA too on bigger days. That's so cool you did makeup! Some of my favorite people are the makeup artists on set. They're all cool talented people!

@@margiesvanmori thanks! It’s hard work and long hours. If I had have started younger and not had young kids I would have pursued a career in film. Instead I focussed on TVCs, print commercial and personal clients

Thanks so much Sally 🧡

Thanks so much Tyler. We’ve done a few mods and upgrades since this video, we really need to film another van tour!

Thank you so much 😊

Thank you! 😊

Thanks so much! It was important to us for it to be functional and comfortable

Thanks Patih, glad you enjoyed it 😊

Thanks guys! Where are you now?

@@nigelandsueadventures Currently we’re stuck on the Gold Coast. Will likely be here for up to 6 months now unfortunately. We are going to try find somewhere to rent during the hot QLD summer so we can spend most of our time preparing for our website launch. Covid restrictions really killed our love of full time Vanlife so it’s time for a short break to hopefully rekindle what we’ve lost.

Did you sell it? We are heading to DI over the next couple of days… and then further north

@@nigelandsueadventures yes we sold her. Im also gonna be at d.i tomorrow

@@xavierkites see you there!!

Thanks so much Geoff 🙏😊

Thanks! We love our tiny home

Awesome! What sort of van are you building?

Hey thanks so much for watching and commenting! We recently posted another video with a full cost breakdown

Thanks so much! I’m not sure what you mean about a split? Do you mean between the two of us? I think we agreed on pretty much everything about the design. Thankfully!!

Hi Susan, Nigel here. I’m thinking you might be meaning a split between our own ideas and pooling from ideas we’d garnered from other builds maybe? In that case definitely a split. There is such a wealth of information out there that has been offered by others who have put together excellent builds. I don’t know that we could’ve done it without them so huge thanks to the pioneers as we weren’t the first. That said I think we’ve definitely added a few unique touches that have only added to the end result and it is our hope that we can pay it forward by offering our own insights. Glad you like our beautiful little home in wheels 🙏

Thank you so much Brenda 😊❤️

Thanks for watching! We really appreciate you being here.

Thanks for coming on over! We are working on a new video covering the costs of the build and what we love/don’t love about it. Hope you’ll stick around!!

@@nigelandsueadventures Will definitely be back to check out your travels. I am also reviewing all of your other videos and have subscribed. Love the bloopers. haha God Bless. Travel well.

@@racheljoanfleming159 thank you! We try to keep it entertaining. The bloopers are fun, aren’t they?

Thank you Lisa 😊😊

Thank you 🙏

Thank you Christine

Haha are you serious or do you mean you love ours?

Thank you Paula, and welcome ❤️

Hey Sally, we will be doing a video on the costs of the van soon… when I finally get through the pile of receipts and finish categorising them! You can always reach out with questions on Instagram DM @nas_adventures and I can give you the current tally.

Thank you thank you thank you 😊 Originally I was going to travel Oz with my partner, but he decided to partner up with someone else a couple of years ago, so it looks like I’ll be doing this myself 🤷‍♀️ (I’ll be getting myself a big dog as my companion lol) I’m in the process of watching all your videos now 👍😊 and getting myself all excited about doing this again so again I am so very grateful for you guys. 🙏🇦🇺

@@sallyjones1213 oh that sucks! Don’t let being on your own stop you. We meet plenty of solo ladies out in the road. In fact, while Nigel is away working for the next couple of months, I’m (Sue) living in the van solo.

Thanks Nancy.

Thanks so much Karen 😍🙏

Thanks Cam ❤️❤️

Thanks so much Pauline! You can see our Full coat beak down in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f8qFhsyc3K-WeKM.html

Thanks Mick! The walls were fine. The dust did get in a bit at the back, where the old fibre-optic cable door is, and made a bit of a mess of the bedding. Bit of duct tape to the rescue!! We checked all the door seals before we headed up to Cape York. There's only really one thing we wish we'd done differently. The sliding windows are a pain, as we have to close them when it rains. Next time we would use those pop out caravan style windows.

The shelf or my glasses? haha. The shelf is a spice rack from Ikea, I just painted it white, and my glasses frames, oh gosh, those ones are OLD, from Specsavers. We were actually just discussing that we need to film a new van tour, as we've been living in it for 3 years now, and made quite a few changes.

Thank you - it was the shelf. And your glasses are lovely too 😊

Thank you 🙏

Thanks! The black “screen” is an insulated window cover, and also keeps the backlight out while we are filming. We don’t have a wall because we have the passenger seat on a swivel base. Gives us so much more living room. We don’t have Aircon and have only really wished we had it once or twice, but our solar/battery system wouldn’t support an aircon and we don’t really like staying in caravan parks!

Hey Tommy, due to Qld regulations, the gas bottle needs to be in a enclosed cabinet that is only accessible from the outside, and vented to the outside. It’s basically behind the drivers seat and under the couch section.

@@nigelandsueadventures Thank you very much

Well, technically Nigel is half Kiwi…

How exciting!!! We are away from the van for a couple of weeks, and I don’t remember the measurements off the top of my head. I’ll take some measurements when I get back. Meanwhile check out DIY RV Solutions as they may have a shower cubicle to fit your van model which will give you more exact dimensions

Thank you! The van had around 230,000km (around 140000 miles), but had a new engine and gearbox put in around 50000km before we got it. We are planning a video on what we love and don’t love about our build, we will get that done soon!!

Hey Helen, yes we did the build ourselves. We have a few videos of the build on our channel, in the Van Build playlist. If you want to travel in sand, you’ll probably need a 4x4 van.

We are working on a follow up video which will have more info about the products used and the cost of the build. If you have questions about any specific products please reply and we can let you know. 😊😊

Sorry I wish we could speak castellano !!

Hi Peter, I’m not sure if the exact height, I’ve had some pretty tall friends in here though. I guess it would also depend on how much you built up the floor. We didn’t add a frame and insulation in the floor, so that saved us a couple of inches

Thank you Isabel. I’m not sure of the actual brand, we got it from Bunnings which is a large hardware chain here in Australia. I think it may be their home brand. We love it as it’s a one handed operation.

Hi Annalise, they are from ozvan .com.au. However I wouldn’t recommend sliding windows as you can’t open them when it’s raining. If we were building again we would use the pop out caravan style windows

Hi Roland, our GVM for the van is 4490 kg, and fully loaded it comes in at around 4300kg. I’ve seen builds that accomodate 4, I guess it depends on the size/age if your kids. You could possibly have a bunk bed where the top bunk folds down during the day to form the back of the couch?

@@nigelandsueadventures Ah ok, here in Europe there are two versions of the Sprinter, that has to do with regular car driving licenses going up to a GVM of 3500kg. So there is a version with a higher GVM (5 ton) but we typically want 3500kg GVM so anybody can drive them. Vehicles that are above GVM are much less wanted. However, 3500kg isn't that much if you start out with a fairly big 4x4 Sprinter. It came as a 9 seater 4x4 shuttle bus windows all around, already at 2800kg actual loaded weight. Removed some heavy rear seats. But I am hoping it will be around 3000kg without us and some luggage, keeping it light. We are just going to make a lower bed in the back and a bed for de kids above that. Then from there on a kitchen area, before you reach the fixed seating area for 4 people, with the front seats being able to turn. That way we don't have a bathroom, but we don't have any folding to do to convert between driving and sleeping.

Yeah we’d heard that about the 3500kg limit for a regular licence. Fortunately here in Australia it’s 4500. Because I only have a car licence. Nigel has a full truck licence though so he would be ok. But I guess that’s something we need to keep in mind if we come and build a van in Europe!

Good question! There is actually enough room to open the door and get into the bathroom with the ottoman in place… just enough room!

Thanks Mal, yes we have to put the seats down. I forget the exact measurement, something like 863mm, and we kept it exact so we would have room to sit up in the bed. The exact measurement will be in the bed build video, I can look it up for you.

@@nigelandsueadventures that’s perfect, I’m trying to work out the bed height and garage height balance. :-)

Hi Nadine, yes we did the build ourselves. We have a few videos of the build up on our channel. Are you building a van?

@@nigelandsueadventures thats awsome. I want to build one in the near future, happy travel guys.

@@nadinenugent-grant4158 oh cool. It’s pretty awesome living in something you’ve built yourself

Haha… can’t carry enough water to fill a bath mate!

@@nigelandsueadventures Therefore, it’s not a bathroom. 🙈

Hey Owen, thanks for subbing. We got the windows from ozvan dot com dot au (I can’t put a link here), but to be honest, if we were building again, we wouldn’t use sliding windows, we would use the ones that hinge from the top (caravan style). We can’t open ours when it rains.

Our freshwater is 110 litres and grey is 86

We have 110 litres (about 30 gallons) of freshwater in a tank that is under the van) we also have a grey water tank under the van that is 86 litres

Hey Debbie, it’s more the crocodiles and sharks! Just kidding. It’s a safe country. More people die of traffic accidents than from the wildlife.