STEALTH CAMPING In Our TWO STOREY AMBULANCE

We're taking this seven berth two-story ambulance on its first stealth camp. Is it even legal? The challenge tonight is we've got to find a wild camp for this ambulance. Can we even stealth camp in Wales? Grid, what's the grid? But we haven't tested a two-story ambulance. I don't know if you're both gonna fit. There's signs everywhere. It's unlawful to camp there. Hello. We have a wild stealth camp in Wales. I cannot believe the weight of the van. What does it weigh John? It does say that I am not normal. They actually say this is the Welsh Lake District. Well there you go. Couldn't give one could you? No. We've made it here legally. So they say everyone's telling us we're still driving around illegal because we have our stickers still on the ambulance if you've seen it. I don't believe so. I believe we've been told if we get rid of the blue lights and the word ambulance. And the sirens, gone. Yeah. Then we are driving legally. Everyone keeps saying get them stickers off it's illegal. We've also sort of ran out of time to take the stickers off before our big Europe trip. So let me know can we drive it? Well I drove past plenty of policemen and I drove past plenty of ambulance people and they waved to us every time. It's embarrassing. But anyway. Anyway what were you gonna say? The bathroom is nearly finished. Now our lovely assistant is going to show how the toilet works. Lovely shower door from door.com. If you saw our old van tour you'll know we never had a shower door. We had a cloth. Where's this? Look at that. The pull-out toilet. Wow. So we're nearly there guys. We're nearly there. Come up in the world. It was at this very moment that I realised that driving this box ambulance down the back roads of Wales was a big mistake. All the roads were one track roads. Was not enough for two cars to get through. It was a real nail-biting drive all the way up. We are absolutely screwed if a car comes towards us. This is all one-laners the whole way. This is a great drive. Oh no. There you go. Oh no. We're snookered. Gotta push forward. Oh that's very kind of them isn't it. I've noticed in the ambulance how much people move for you. That's very kind. This is a very picturesque drive. It actually reminds me ever so slightly of Big Sur in California. Off to the waterfall. And we're yet to have been pulled over by the police. There is time Kim. There is time. I feel like you're wanting to be pulled over by the police. I feel like it would be part of the adventure. I can't believe this is in the UK. Feels like Jurassic Park. I feel like I need to give this a hug. Look at the size of it here. Quick. Look at the size. Before we get pulled. Look at the... Down here there's a beautiful stream. Look at the size of that tree. It's massive. I am in the middle of the road here. So I'm going to have to go. Kim's absolutely flapping it. Look at this little guy. Hello. I don't know if you're both going to fit. I'm not going to fit. It blows off the end here. Oh no. There you go. We made it. It's made it through. Now we've got to go up that road there. And not try and run over any sheep. Oh I'm not sure we're going to make it. This is a big hill. We're not on off-road camper are we? Grid. Watch the grid. Let's hope I secured everything down. I didn't sign up for this hill, Kimmy, when you said go to the waterfall in the middle of nowhere in Wales. Oh no. I don't think the steepness is doing it justice on the camera. Is that what you call it? Steepness or gradient? Steepness. Oh bloody hell, Lord. Gradient. Who are you? So we've just found a parking spot right by the waterfall. That was a precarious drive though. Kim is now making a clotted cream and jam scone. It's a luxury day. We've got clotted cream. Seedless jam. Scones, don't you know. This is a very British day. But I'm going to use the our place oven for the first time. I've never even switched it on before. I've put it to 10 minutes air fry at 230. Pop your scones in. Let's have a look. I have to watch the kids with this because it's heated really quickly. Scones are in. Do you know what? I'm made up. I'm literally having the best day. We've been floating around. I've seen sheep. We've been up a mountain. And now we're going to go and see a waterfall and find a stealth camp. Now this would be a great stealth camp because obviously no one's around here. The only problem is it's on the most slanted hill. We're going to have to find somewhere tonight that we can stealth camp and not be moved on with the dreaded knock on the side of the van. Coffee? It's gone everywhere. This is the bloody life. So we haven't tested the two-story ambulance yet. We are the guinea pigs because we don't have any other beds. So the pop-top is the only bed we have available. Tonight when we stealth camp, we've then got to pop the top up. I think if it's anything like camping with a tent, as long as we haven't got anywhere with wind, we'll be fine. There'll be wind where I am. Just to clarify as well, my daughter has bought me a new badge. If anyone's seen it, put in the comments. It does say that I am not normal. Thanks Nails. So we are off to the waterfall. We've had our scones and coffee and then we're off to find a stealth camp. There's people up there. Oh wow. Look at this. What a spot to be in. This is lovely. Completely free, not cost a penny. Look at this natural beauty and I'm not just talking about Kim. Oh my days. What a great place to have our first stealth camp. This has been so epic. But it is now time to go and find a park up. We've never wild camped ever. I hope so. It's a new thing unlocked anyway. We're hoping to find a quiet lay-by, aren't we? Hopefully with a good view where I can put my lovely thing. Time for tea because what time are we on now? We're on 25 to 6 already and we're at the top of this hill. We've got to get down this. So we're straight back to the van and find a park up. I'm going to try and not break a leg on the way down. You survived Kimbo. She survived. That was really... Just to let you know that is much steeper than it looks. It's time to go and find a place to park up for the night. Let's go and get some food. Let's eat it. So we've been driving for about an hour now. We've just been past the town called Barlow to where we were going to stay for the night. We've got there. The signs everywhere saying it's unlawful to camp there. Go and find a campsite. That's the whole point of this challenge. It's to stealth camp in Wales. I'm starving. So it's now quarter past seven. We're heading back up the road that we just came down to try and find somewhere so we can pitch up and Kim can cook a fabulous tea because we're both starving now. This is the challenge of a wild stealth camp. You never know where you're going to stay until you're there. That's a lake by there isn't it? Yeah but it's on a massive hill. Your chops aren't even going to sort that out. Let's keep going. Let's do it. So after driving around for an hour we found this absolute mega park up here. I'm not going to check for any signs that say you can't park here but look at that. Look at that. That for a view. That is the park up right on the water. Absolutely glorious and Kim is just in here now. I think she's actually going to the toilet. She's going to have some food now and then I'm going to throw the pop top up. Hopefully it's not too windy. Oh there she is. Hello. So what have we got tonight chef? A bit of everything. What's in the pan? Steak and creamy Cajun pasta. Well that looks absolutely banging. It's just not cooking quick enough. No it's that induction hob. We've had the smoke alarm go off so this has been kicking off. I've had to open the door because the steak. We don't tell them that part. What do you mean? Aesthetics love. Well the smoke alarm was kicking off so anyone that's been parked near us apologies for the smoke alarm going off but look at this beautiful setting. I keep carping on about it but this is exactly what we do it for. Steak in a lay-by. What time is it now? What time is it? It's eight o'clock I think. It's eight o'clock and I've not been fed? Just look at this. So Kim has cooked up a master class here. Oh look at that steak and pasta. We're going to absolutely house that. The only thing is it's too cold to sit outside I think. The temperature has dropped a little bit even though the sun is absolutely banging. Look at that pasta. With a view. So we're going to go and eat that right now. Kim's facetiming our little girls. Tell me what you think. Tabo's just finished football so she's having a little debrief. Kim's showing the beautiful views. Whoa. After a long day it's time to go to bed. Oh this kills your feet. And also it's quite cold up there. It's an absolute beautiful park up. Look at that for a view. But yeah Kimmy's up there. Oh it's cold isn't it? It's cold. I told you. I told you it's cold. Have you got a heater? No the heater's not working because I blocked it off. I dropped a boob this week. I have done the bathroom and the diesel heater comes here and I actually have forgotten to put the vent in. So I went to run the diesel heater before and it's not running now because I've blocked it off. So it's a little bit chilly tonight. Oh so you've opened the secret hatch now. This is our little bed up here. Lots of pillars. Fits two comfortably. Well I'll let you know if it fits two comfortably later on. But look at that. Oh this is epic. So this is off the side of the Ambo. If you look down there now we are quite high up. And that is the view for tonight's sleep. It doesn't get much better than this. No. And it's free. Free. So we have successfully managed to wild stealth camp in Wales. And I'm currently stood in a ladder. We'll let you know how it goes tomorrow. Yeah let's hope it's not too cold. But it seems nice and still. So we'll let you know in the morning how the sleep has gone. It's a bit warmer now isn't it? Oh yeah. Last night was a disaster. Honestly. Forget the views and the company. It was freezing. So we went up to the pop-top about 11. Yeah. Oh the temperature dropped. It dropped. It got below I think it was about six degrees. Now it's so bizarre. I don't know what it is about this lake. But I checked the weather. And stupidly I've covered up the diesel heater when I've done the bathroom. So I'd not put a vent on. So I couldn't even put the heater on. So we were freezing. But we had no bed downstairs. I had to make a makeshift bed with the back seat in. Nice conversion. Thank you. But yeah and we've had that all night as well. We've had I'd say about 20 people walking past and saying what is that? We've noticed though that the pop-top is super hot or super cold. And that's something we're gonna have to fix. I don't know how. But we're going to Europe in two and a half weeks. Yep. We need to be quick. Let's figure it out. Add it to the list. A couple of weeks ago we went and got the van weighed. We've sort of left you on a cliffhanger. Honestly I cannot believe the weight of the van. I said the ambulance would weigh just over three tonne. And John laughed at me for it. We went and got the van weighed. What does it weigh John? 3,160 kilos is current weight. So who was right? I thought it was going to be way heavier than that. The maths was mapping. We've got rated up to 4.25 tonnes. So we've got a lot of wiggle room now. Obviously we're all in I think we're 360 kg of people. So add that on to your 316. And all I've got left is a bed. The water tanks. Bed and water tanks. And I'm basically I've got around 600 something kilos spare for that for the water. So we're comfortable. We're comfortable. We're definitely comfortable. It was definitely worth upgrading your license wasn't it? We'd have never have got this ambulance under 3.5 tonne. Not unless you're one person in a van or two and you've got naff all in it. So that's it. We've got two and a half weeks till we go to Europe. Which means we are going to be trying to finish this van build in two and a half weeks. See you next week.