Why UK Adventures Are Too Expensive - Is It Time to Leave?

Our latest adventure in London made us realise just how expensive family adventure in the UK had become. The breaking news. So the inflation rate came in at 2.6 percent. After travelling from the UK to Eastern Europe and back we decided it might be time to seek new adventures across the continent. Join us as we take our boat car through London and share the reasons why we think it's time to get out. Okay well we're going to be around the area for a little while so we'll just like we'll catch you up then later on. Once you've travelled you're going to realise the UK is definitely not it. So the cost of travelling in the UK is becoming more and more and more. So in terms of 2025 we've had announcements that travel cost is going up, you've got food costs in general going up. I'm not sure if the inflation has been announced yet. No i'm sure that what makes makes love is like the the options we're getting are not really options they're more like you know bribery and extortion. I think it looks very, lots of very, yeah expensive. Perfect, perfect. Not on power miles they don't. No they're together. It's like let's mix it all together, have some of that. These technological cars like EVs and it's gonna be free, free, free and now 2025 got to pay road tax the same as any other car. Yeah. And i'm thinking hang on a minute the goalpost is not even getting moved it's cemented. So like it's made in different positions it doesn't make sense anymore because as you kick one goal they're saying no that's not it that's the goal. There's no other options you know you're spending money excessively so i think in terms of leaving from one side of the country let's say from south London. Yeah. And you're going to zone six. Yeah. For one person that's costing you about 15 pounds. You go across Thailand for that money. 15 pounds in a car. It's very expensive exactly like you can live your whole life in a month in Thailand for that money. Not far off yeah exactly a modest life it's got ridiculous um and first of all having kids education system is completely it's finished it's completely finished it's not educating anyone anymore and the you know it said like to be old you need to be wise and to have knowledge you have to travel and i've learned a lot traveling and it's opened my eyes up to what's really out there outside this bubble we're in called the UK and um but education for the kids it's just come to a standstill and and we've educated our kids ourselves yeah and we've been taking them around they've learned so much even whilst traveling yeah languages not even talked about in schools they've learned to speak languages so you know i think they do in schools i think they do still do the standard french and german yeah but what about russian what about bulgarian what about italian what about um um mondovian language what about whatever language is out there whatever they're not gonna learn all that unless they actually travel and like i said it's not about being fluent in anything it's just knowing a bit of everything to get you through so if you don't look and then um hello goodbye how are you nice to meet you in all these languages you'll go a long way that's what works in our country it's really just trying to communicate not only that whilst you're traveling you're also going to be meeting loads of different cultures and eating loads of different types of food and you don't get that in the UK i guess the only place in the UK that you do get that is in the city areas like london birmingham manchester and maybe liverpool you know the cultural areas but in terms of um you know in general yeah across the UK no it's box standard chips yeah i'll be honest we love our fish and chips by the way isn't it supposed to be the new curry dish no no curry dish is the new british yeah plate yeah yeah well and we love curry too but i will say to you food doesn't taste the same in britain even if it's coming from i'm not putting that business in the UK i'm sorry but when you eat food in thailand and you have it authentically cooked in thailand it tastes different than having it from a thai restaurant with a thai owner in the UK i don't know why but it's just i think it's the seasons yeah but not even seasoning so i think just like where you live the whole culture of the place goes into the food yeah where britain hasn't got no country culture hasn't it hasn't got like it hasn't got no culture it's the culture what's come to britain by the way yeah britain itself hasn't got any culture so the culture and the smells of around the the you know just the area around it it goes into the food and you feel the vibe and and you don't get in britain so food just never tastes as good as it does from the country it comes from yeah that's true that's true so you know a lot of people i think it's been uh kind of trending at the moment in terms of where the hot spots are in um in terms of travel for the world and britain is set to go down actually for 2025 well they're saying britain's number one i'm like at the moment i'm like i can't believe that i think um well at the moment it's kind of trending quite well but i think yeah as of 2025 as of now it is starting it is going to start to go downwards and i think the main thing that's making that happen is the due is due to the cost of travel right i've got to say this before we go on to why we've left or why we've moved or traveled what you call it we're nomads so we travel call it if you want gypsies wait a minute reason why before i say this i've got to say britain has got some amazing places to go amazing places to stay we do attractions we've done some of them check out our previous videos you'll see the stuff we've gone yeah fantastic they're over here by the way if you do want to check out any of them yep so the overall of us traveling and leaving uk doing what we're doing to bring a different dimension of life to not just ourselves but to you guys is because we know there's more out there so um you know this is why we've gone because overall we've got our our faves over here our favorite places and um but we're gonna um yeah it was just we had to go i guess we're doing the legwork for you guys so yeah being able to get out and experience other cultures and other foods and other areas we've we're doing the the legwork we're making those mistakes and you know we're kind of having those pitfalls and then we're sharing them with you so that you can hopefully not make those pitfalls and just go on an adventure and not make the same mistakes that we did but still enjoy what you're doing why the boat car because we've always done it i know we've always done a boat car we've we've had it for so long now and that's just part of us well it's there's a choice we got four by four we love boat we love driving and why not combine the two with travel yeah with travel and um so so it was actually a no-brainer to bite the bullet and say right we're gonna take three kids jump in this unconventional vehicle what shouldn't looks like it should be on the water more than it should be on the road and leave with that vehicle with barely a space for a suitcase to go on well you know what it actually makes it an adventure all right so if you are into cars the minute you leave the uk and you head past germany onwards really in austria you start to see classic cars yeah which have completely been eradicated from the uk yeah like they're the plague i think they've been sold to those countries yeah so if you love traveling you're gonna be um you're gonna be quite impressed to see there's cars that we've thought about 20 years ago and they're still brand new over there driving around yeah and some have got british number plates on them still um or british it's obviously been to come from britain at some point and they're just so in perfect condition and on top of that you're gonna see cars that have been left which you know in britain would be a lot of money and they've been abandoned yeah sitting there rotting um and if you're wildlife gosh you know mountains loads that stuff britain don't give you yes everyone would say oh but scotland oh scotland oh mountain a guy once who was who is from geranium and um he was talking about the mountains and hills in the uk and literally he you know we're talking about wells and going to that sort of area where it's quite mountainous yeah and he was like mountains those are not mountains you need to go to europe exactly that is exactly what he said they're like hills they're not like mountains and literally now that we've traveled and seen the mountains oh gosh austria and germany proper proper mountains and and you know what when you go places like pakistan and afghanistan yeah and and very countries i want to visit um um pakistan afghanistan um iraq iraq yeah iraq countries like that we want to because there's again there's a different kind of beauty to those countries and the people i've heard are amazing yeah um and we've met quite a few in the uk and they've all literally said come stay with us you know come stay at our home and you know we'll look after you we've had so many lovely people from those countries um so and that based me on um uh on immigration and immigrants we met quite a lot of refugees yeah on our travels and they love such lovely people yeah but the main concern is getting to the uk yeah and i'm straight and i'm like oh we want to go to uk i'm like that way go that way because we're going this way so you can have it i'll even help you get across in the boat car but no honestly they they are they've been sold a dream which is not true like we've all followed the dream we've been born into we realize it's not true yeah and they've been sold a dream but uk is the savior um of humanity in terms of having a great life having money in your bank and it's clearly clearly not true for most of the people in this country and other western countries yeah so you know i'll happily allow them i'll happily exchange my passport for theirs and um and put up with you know like i said that's another thing you're going to see as well and i think it's important i say this when you travel you have problems in uk do not get me wrong there's going to be issues in other countries there's going to be some countries have just come out of war some countries have got poverty in terms of other elements of whatever is being created or caused on them but you're going to realize that your problems in the uk is 10 times worse yeah and i'm not just saying that and i go to these countries looking for the worst and elaine's always said to me just look at no the worst case scenario just like see you know because it can't be all roses come on i'm like yes it's not all roses understand that i've got that but when you actually look for the worst and the worst it's nothing like the uk yeah it's it's nothing like the uk so over there is what yeah you can't use the word anymore i know it's not very controlled state is it right so very busy and we are just about and you know what when you go places like pakistan and afghanistan those sort of countries oh my gosh it's breathtaking yeah iraq countries like that we want to because there's again yeah and the people i've heard are amazing yeah um and we've met quite a few in the uk and they've all literally said come stay with us you know come stay at our home and you know we look after you we've had so many lovely people from those countries um so and that based me on um uh on immigration and immigrants we met quite a lot of refugees yeah on our travels and they love such lovely people yeah but their main concern is getting yeah and i'm straight and i'm like oh we want to go to uk i'm like that way go that way because we're going this way so you can have it i'll even help you get across in the boat but no honestly they they are they they've been sold a dream which is not true like we've all followed the dream we've been born into we realize it's not true yeah and they've been of humanity in terms of having a great life having money in your bank and it's clearly clearly not true for most of the people in this country and other western countries i think when you decide to leave the uk you kind of think okay so i've got all these ties to people i've got these things i've got get rid of i've got maybe some in some cases my house i've got get rid of and then you then have to change the mindset weight which is okay can i actually do this yeah and that's what you've got to kind of overcome and then put the action in to actually do it which is the hardest thing but i don't like about uk's but i think that storage facilities they charge so much money it's unnecessarily it's unnecessarily just justified yeah to be ripping people off of three four hundred pounds a month for a container exactly so if you've got goods in there which over the next year so you're not gonna you're gonna put four four hundred times twelve exactly do the math throw it away it's not worth a couple of grams sell it kind of get the money and enjoy yourself because when you come back most of the stuff probably have no good out of date or you feel i don't need it anymore but you still paid 400 pounds to store it and that's the dilemma we had yeah and we did do that for a little while with some of our stuff we thought oh we'll keep it we'll keep it and and then we put in container and then we're like 300 pounds a month yeah it doesn't make sense but unless you're storing gold what can go up in value it doesn't make sense so or if you're lucky enough to have a friend who's got a container or a house you can rent a room to store some of your prize like your you know wedding photos and stuff or stuff of you you know what's sentimental to you then they may look after say look i'll put it in a room yeah for six months or a year as you come back and then all your stuff can go because it's all replaceable yeah to be fair when you try and sell it secondhand in the uk you don't get nothing for it anyway i mean power tools what might be 100 pounds stuff for 25 quid i mean you've paid 300 400 pounds a month exactly do you think that's the one thing what puts people in trouble when they travel with storage yeah it is for sure it's a massive ask and if you've got a car what's clearly not worth keeping sell it yeah if that's not the car you're using yeah sell it and put the money in the bank and store that money for when you come back yeah just to get another round around to get you back yeah yeah so uh in terms of the country then that you would get out of the uk to go to what would that be russia it's in russia and i'll still say russia okay and uh what do you what will you get in russia that you wouldn't get in the uk for me in fact i'm gonna i'm gonna now i'm gonna reword that what countries have you been to that you would get out of the uk to go to and what are bulgaria is my first um because i just saw something which and i felt something which was very natural but very natural but it's something i also felt when i was younger when britain used to be what it was to what it has become today where people and the community actually cared about each other um you know farmers are still farming which they're not now in uk and food is more real and the whole thing and people are so friendly yeah especially the the i say the soviet union days the older generation the babushkas and the papas or what you call them yeah they are so generous it's unbelievable wherever you go genuine genuine they invite us in for meals and we found us around found around in bulgaria and also um but you don't get that in the uk and and again not everyone's on their phones not everyone's got their heads on their phones yeah you know checking their social media for five minutes yeah it's just great to know you can have a conversation or go to a restaurant and no one's no one's on their phone and it's strange that you should say that because obviously our business is based on people having their heads and their phones on their computers but you know what sometimes you just want to not do that you just want to just live your normal life as you should do as a human yeah and just enjoy the socialization the socializing sorry and the connection with other people that are around you rather than being on a phone what one thing what my egg about britain is we come out to britain and first instantly you notice that foul smell there's a constant foul smell from the time you get to the airport whatever or the docks don't don't matter where you land in britain um there's probably a few exceptions but where you come in britain the smell there's spit all over the road there's rubbish in corners i saw it's not as off as bad as what i saw traveling through the so-called poorer countries we're being told about and even then there's rubbish there was people sweeping up with with straw brushes at 12 o'clock at night cleaning the streets and babushkas and they're just clean keeping the city clean and yeah and there's no dirt anywhere spotless by the morning and you don't see that i mean no and the other thing i like as well i know it sounds stupid some people love this but i love the stray dogs i love the fact that animals are being allowed to live in harmony with humans and not seen freedom in freedom and not seen as a pest because they've got a right to live you know where you don't see that in britain they've all they've all been they've all been swiped up and i don't know i don't want to say what happened to them but they've all been got rid of and they've got a right to run around the street and as humans always complain oh well it shouldn't be allowed they're dangerous they're this and that and all all i hear in britain when abroad no one cares yeah and you don't see dogs chasing people down the roads and if they do they're not even really after biting you they're just trying to get your attention yeah um so yeah um bulgaria is the first and i suppose going on from there it's very very similar with the other countries yeah yeah as we navigate the busy streets of london in our boat we can't help but reflect on how much family travel has changed in the uk from rising fuel prices to expensive attractions the cost of a simple day out feels overwhelming driving past iconic landmarks like big ben and tower bridge we wonder if these adventures are still worth it for families on a budget the joy of a boat car has always been its ability to take us beyond the ordinary but even that feels limited here with europe offering more affordable and family-friendly options we can't help but feel the pull to head back to the continent after traveling from the uk to eastern europe and back we've decided it might be time to seek new adventures make sure to subscribe for more family travel insights and follow us as we prepare for our next 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