Van Camping ALONE in Portland [ep 36]

Wow, look at the shelf of rock here, this is wicked look at that going along, that's awesome isn't it Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. this is the what's supposed to be look like a bible oh there's not one part of me that enjoyed coming down that I'm not. views for days mate feels like if i go down there i'm not coming back up well i was supposed to be online for about half an hour this morning and uh four hours later we're here That's genuinely how my mornings go sometimes. Anyway, we are on the Isle of Portland, which technically isn't actually an island. It's more of a peninsula. I'll show you. I'll put a map on the screen and then you guys can see it. But it's yeah, it's a peninsula. It's coming off of the Dorset south coast here on the south of England. So yeah, we're on the Isle of Portland. We're going to go do a bit of exploring. Got a few sights to see. Parking has become a real issue in the UK, or I say the UK, in England. There's a few spots that I have stayed in before on the Isle of Portland when I've come over here and since I was here last time, majority of them you can't stay out overnight anymore. There's been loads of signs put up and yeah, it's a real problem and it's just due to like... It's really frustrating and it really really got to me yesterday because it's just due to people like leaving rubbish behind, human waste, all those sorts of things which then just ruin it for everyone else. It really does suck and it's really frustrating but it's one of those things you know so nonetheless we're gonna go and have a good time today we're gonna go and do a little bit of exploring. I'm gonna take you guys, I'm gonna go and show you the lighthouse and there's a couple of other cool locations around the island that we're gonna go and look at and um Yeah, we're going to have ourselves a little explore. But if this is your first time watching one of my videos and you're new to the channel, welcome. My name is John and I live and travel full-time out of my self-converted camper van. I'm going to put the lights on so you guys can see because it's a little bit dark. There you go. But yeah, I travel full-time in my self-converted camper van and have done for the past couple of years. And yeah, I spent the last like, well, the first half of this year I was off in Scotland exploring all the Highlands and all of the amazing stuff that was up there. If you wanna go check out those videos, there's a playlist on the channel, you can go and do that. But currently, like I say, we're in Portland, on the south of England, and we're gonna be exploring this place today and then finding a cool camp spot tonight, cooking some good food and having a good time. So if you're into like van life, hiking, camping, finding cool camp spots, cooking good food and all of the things in between, then maybe consider subscribing. It'd be great to have you here and yeah, welcome to the channel, appreciate you being here. Right now I'm going to see how this Video is doing. Oh, I think we're done. That's a first. Let me see here. Yeah, we are golden. So I've got one more email to do. Let me double check here a second. Yeah, I've got a couple of emails. I just need to quickly check and then we can, yeah, and then we can get on the road. All right, I think I'm just about done. So I think what I'm going to do is have myself a little wash real quick, put everything away in the van, need to get my contacts in, if you know, you know, and then we'll get ourselves to the Portland Bill Lighthouse, which is up the other end of Portland, so we're gonna go there. And we can actually go up inside the lighthouse, walk up the stairs and go right to the top where the light is, which is gonna be really cool. Think it's like over a hundred steps or something. So yeah, we're gonna go down, we're gonna check that out. We've got to pay to go in and do it, but I'll tell you about that when we're en route there. So yeah, I'll see you guys in a moment. And we're done. Time to go. Change my t-shirt as well, so I'm a little more comfortable. Okay. And I know quite a few of you have reached out and been asking me what's it like living in the van during this heat. Yeah, I think it might be cooler having an apartment on the surface of the sun right now. That's been a bit dramatic. It's hot. It's very hot. So obviously I have my Maxxair fans and I have my little cooler and stuff in the back, but yeah, it still does get very, very warm. When it's kind of 25, 26 degrees, it's not too bad, but when it starts getting up around the 30 degrees and over, that's this, or hang on, this. in Fahrenheit for uh my American friends anything over kind of 30 degrees yeah it gets a little kind of difficult to deal with clean the lens a bit there we go oh but you know what we get by we make do it's all good all right let's see where we're going shall we 10 minute drive to get to the end uh let me just check here yeah 10 minute drive cool there's actually the quarry um Right down the end of this kind of industrial estate I'm staying on there's the entrance to the quarry or where they keep all the I don't know diggers and stuff for the quarry and that's one of the things that Portland is actually most famous for. Yeah so the island's Portland stone that's found here has actually been quarried for over three centuries and was actually used to build St Paul's Cathedral, I think the UN headquarters I read rightly, and the facade on Buckingham Palace which I think is really Really cool. And hopefully at a couple of points today, we'll have a, oh my God, what are people doing? Oh some people honestly. Yeah hopefully at some point today or we will at a couple of points today you'll um you'll be able to have a good look at the um the kind of stone the quarries and stuff. I think we can actually even go and have a look around a quarry a bit later on well an abandoned quarry one that's kind of been like finished I don't know what you call that but anyway uh one that's not being used anymore a derelict quarry so yeah we'll uh we'll go have a look around there as well which would be cool. It's certainly busy hashtag summer holidays. This is where in hindsight I would have got here four hours ago. All right cool we can park up here, hang the back end over the grass and that's the lighthouse. Pretty cool isn't it? So we can go up the top of that apparently. We'll see how busy it is. Hopefully we can go up. Shouldn't be too busy, the car park's not like full. Just gonna have a look and see how much it is. Let's have a let's have a bit of amusement shall we? Ah here we go. Summer, 30 minutes to an hour, £3.20. One to two hours, £4.80, two to three hours, £6.30, summer charges. This is an AMPR, paid public car park, licence plate would be red, yadda yadda yadda. Okay, cool. So we pay on exit, so what's the time? 12.39. I reckon a couple of hours. I reckon a couple of hours to get up there, get down and have a look around. Let's see if we can get him around. There's no... Well, I'm going to finish my drink and then we'll go get ourselves a ticket and go up the lighthouse. Probably not going to do lunch or take any lunch with me, I'll probably just have a fuel when I get back because I'm not actually that hungry at the moment. Right then. Let's rock and roll, shall we? So not everyone who parks in this car park is here to go up the lighthouse. To be honest, there's probably not gonna be that many people up there, because you've got the lobster pot here, which is like a restaurant place. You've got loads of people over there doing, is it orienteering, orienteering, orienteering? I don't know, name here. Where you do jumping off cliffs and all sorts. And then you've got all these walks that kind of go out here as well, so there's probably loads of people over there. Well, yeah, let's go see what we can see. Cool looking lighthouse, isn't it? It's like a traditional lighthouse. Hey, how you doing buddy, you alright? Yeah good, thank you, yourself? I've got the lighthouse. So you've got to go up on a tour to go to the top. Okay. So the next one will be about quarter past one. Okay, cool. Unless you wanted to just quickly jump up and explain what you want to do. Yeah, I can do quarter past one. Yeah, I'll come back at quarter past one. Yeah, okay. All right, thanks bud. All right, so it looks like we can't go up on our own. We've got to do a tour with a group of people or just on my own. Which is £9.50, so the next one goes up in 25 minutes-ish. So we'll take a walk down here first, and then we'll go back in and get ourselves a tour of the lighthouse, which will be cool. But yeah, look, this is where we are. This is the lighthouse. And then whatever that stone is there. And yeah, I don't know too much about it down here, to be honest with you. I mean, it looks like stone was quarried here, to be honest. i don't know they could have quarried the stone out of here to make the lighthouse who knows that's pulpit rock i think all right so after a quick google uh they did used to quarry here uh there's the lighthouse look how cool does that look and then yeah pulpit rock down there it's like a man-made rock stack uh which is cool there's a guy like stood underneath it i don't know whether the camera's gonna pick it up but he's just taking a photo underneath now which is kind of cool so we'll go over there i think we've got time and then this here is a um i don't even know what it is like a monument thing but apparently it was built to uh to warn off ships there's like low lying rock here which extends out like 90 or feet into the sea so yeah it's like a daytime warning thing apparently yeah But we'll uh we'll go down and have a look at Pulpit Rock and then we'll uh come back up and um yeah go up our lighthouse. Our lighthouse? The lighthouse. Well there you go you can see kind of how big it is now. There's a guy climbing up it over there. It's uh pretty big isn't it? So yeah it was man-made in like the 1870s I think it was. The piece of rock that's lent up against it. It's supposed to resemble a bible kind of lent up against a church pulpit. I think that's how you say it. I know nothing about that stuff so yeah but apparently that's what it's supposed to uh it's supposed to resemble. And there it is. That's wild cool. Get some video of that guy because there's there's no way I'm going up there. I'll happily climb the lighthouse but not climb up that rock. Wow look at the shelf of rock here this is wicked. Oh look at that going along. That's awesome isn't it? Cool view of the lighthouse here as well and then the monument wherever it is down there somewhere. Yeah and there's that guy getting down, very cool. That's awesome, the guy's fishing down here. Look at it there look, where it all goes underneath, that's crazy. And right over there where all the kind of, you've got all the stacks of rock, that's really cool. I just want to walk around and um Going underneath them but I'm a little bit sketched on the heights because you're quite high up here. Oh god yeah you're hanging right off the edge. Look at this. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Oh god my legs are shaking. Wow pretty cool isn't it? I didn't think I hit record then. Well done. This is the what's supposed to be look like a bible and you can climb up there look. It's way bigger than I thought it would be. Look at that. Isn't that big? It's huge. Yeah cool. You could probably jump off the other side, but something you'll never find me doing, that's for sure. Wow, oh you've got a cracking view down the coast as well over here. Didn't even look at that. You see right on down the coast over there, look. Awesome. All right then, time to take a slow little walk back and get up our lighthouse. We're in. History of navigation, look. Oh that's cool, look at that. Welcome to Portmanville lighthouse. My name is Jonathan. Get it to the top, legend. Good, I've got a massive fear of heights there. Going down is the... Yeah, going down is the... Rather just knock me out and carry me down. Not one part of me that enjoyed coming down that. Mind you, I found it hard going up. Jesus. Let's go down here and get some air on it. Gee whiz. Wow. That is so tall. I don't actually know how tall it is. Let me have a quick look, okay so it's kind of embarrassing, it's 41 meters tall so 131 feet and it has the spiral staircase of 153 steps that lead to the lantern room at the top but my god those steps were so narrow and like you were so close to the edge that was um that was horrible. Stunning lighthouse but a horrible experience. Oh okay well at least I don't have to do that again. Well I got back to the van like 10 minutes ago and just fixed myself a a huel for lunch. and uh was just checking out our next location uh yeah before i came back to the van i just spoke to the bloke down there and uh i just went back in the the center and said to him about flying drones like have you got any uh advice because it shows on the drone map or the flight maps i have that although there are a lot of parts of portland you can't fly a drone it's basically a no-fly zone over the whole of the island it shows that there's an area It's about a mile radius around the lighthouse where there's a strong advisory not to fly your drone but you could fly your drone if you wanted to but when I went in and spoke to him he said like basically no the whole the whole island's a no-fly zone and if you do put it up it can raise security issues and there have been numerous people who have got in trouble over the years for flying drones here. So not only have you got like um army like royal marines and stuff here as well but you've also got two prisons on the isle of portland so uh you can get in trouble for like flying over the prisons and stuff and like there's a whole bunch of security issues when it comes to flying drones here so probably one of the coolest places you could fly a drone but it sucks that you can't so yeah that's out of question so i think i'm going to finish this and then we're going to head up to the other car park which is a free car park which is the opposite end of the island. We're going to go and park there and then I think there's a cool walk we can do through one of the old quarries and we can get a view right down Chesil Beach as well. So we're going to go and check that out and then from there I'll probably stay in that car park to be honest with you and then cook dinner tonight there. We can't stay there tonight. I'm half thinking going back on the mainland and finding somewhere or I might even just drive to Dorchester and go to the gym later on tonight or At least get to Dorchester and then I'm in in Dorchester for for tomorrow to go to the gym because there's no gym around here either which sucks. Not even in like Weymouth which is like on the land close by. So I think that's the plan. I think we're gonna go free car park, go for a walk around the quarry, see some cool views, get some views in and then we'll go find somewhere to park tonight and then um yeah we'll do that. I think we can stay here till 10 o'clock. I think that's the cut off in the car park. I gotta remember to pay for my parking as well before I leave Or apply for a loan to pay for my car park. £4.80, look at that, £4.80. Dude, drive safely, thanks. I never used to look at it too much, but now that I've started recording all my expenses on the van and putting it all on my website, I tend to look at how much I'm spending on car parks a lot more closely and it's, yeah, it's a thing. Onto the next. Let's go find ourselves a free car park, shall we? All right we're here and I forgot to show you just now um I got two badges when I went to the lighthouse so I got made it to the top if that comes out on the camera and then when I got back down because I was a bit scared the bloke gave me that one and he said yeah you can have one of those so I've got a made it back down badge as well so yeah epic thanks mate legend so there's There's one thing about the Portland Stone as well, is that it's so you can see by my tires on the van everything here turns white when you uh get near the Portland Stone or the dust of the stone and you can tell like when you're near quarries and things because the roads outside that are supposed to be black are just completely white. So did I lock that? Did now. Let's go this way and uh go see some views shall we? That's a uh that's a monument look at that that's incredible that looks like it was put there yesterday blimey it's big isn't it? So I'm led to believe there's an Olympic monument here or Olympic rings made out of stone or something like that. Because in 2012, the London Olympics and Paralympics sailing events were held in Weymouth and Portland. So there's loads of stuff here and all the road infrastructure and everything was changed for the sailing events. Oh wow, look at that. I was right. Wow, look at that view, mate. That's stunning. It's like I made that shot, look at that. Flowers, views, that's cool. Look at that, that's awesome, isn't it? So there's your Olympic rings made out of the Portland stone. Weymouth, Portland and Dorset host venue for the London 2012 Olympic Games sailing events, 29th of July to the 11th of August, 2012. That's wicked, isn't it? That view though, blimey. Look at that, wow, stunning, absolutely stunning. Views for days, mate. All right, so we have got, see whether we can do some place point in here. So this is Portland, okay? This is the town of Portland. And obviously we're up on the top here and then the island goes all the way back over there and we were right at the back. So this is the town of Portland and then you've got the kind of, hang on a sec. Can't see on the camera. You've got a little bit of land that connects it to the mainland here. And then this here is Chesil Beach. So that that goes all the way down is called Chesil Beach. And that stretches for, I don't know, I think it's something like 14, 16 miles, something like that. And if you keep following the coast all the way around, you get to my mum and dad's town of like Bridport and West Bay area, where I was a few videos ago. So. that's cool and then that town over there on the mainland is Weymouth. I mean I say the mainland technically we are still on the mainland but you get what I'm saying so that's Weymouth and yeah believe it or not I've never actually come to this viewpoint before I've driven past it many times but never actually stopped and got out and um had a look so yeah olympic rings views all right let's go find ourselves a quarry shall we so I've just had a quick look on google and Where we were, we were just over here by the Olympic rings. Obviously, there's the views. And then just behind that kind of... Grass Verge up there or something is actually the HMP Portland prison. HMP the Verge I think it is, I'll put the name on the screen, but that's one of the prisons that's on the Isle of Portland. So and like I say you can see the kind of communication satellite thing spinning around up there and you can just about see some kind of buildings over in the distance but you can't really get any kind of a sense there's anything there but yeah that's where one of the prisons is. Very interesting. This is mega, isn't it? Look at the chunks of stone. That's wicked. They're huge. Look at that. Let me put you right out a second. Hang on. Look at how big that is. That's mad. Wow. Isn't it cool? Oh, there's a fossil on that one. Look at that. Say what that is. I can't pronounce it, but I'll put it on the screen here. And yeah, that's amazing. Look at all the shells in it. Hundreds of them. Very cool. Very cool. Right, I think we're going to go... Oh, shall we see if we can see a view of the quarry where we're going? Ha ha! Oh, there you go. Architecture aligned to St George's Church, inspired by St Paul's Cathedral. Very cool. There you go. This is kind of like the quarry that we can walk around. So I think we'll head down here and we'll head up over that way. Looks like there's some guys doing some work over there. I tell you what, it's absolutely roasting today as well. It's only about 25, 26 degrees today, but it's, yeah, in half warm. Wow, look, you can see them on the side of the cliff down there, like doing some repairs or something. And then you can walk right down the middle, all the way through. Very cool, isn't it? And then a little chisel beach view through there, look. That looks like a chair. It is as well. It's an armchair. That's so cool. It's an armchair made out of stone. Wow. There's not many people who can say they've got this view from their armchair, is there, eh? Oh, we're right near the edge. Oh, danger. Do not approach the gully. Okay, look down there, look. Don't think we'll go any closer than that. Might be able to put you up on an extension a bit. What's this here, look? Yeah that's a tunnel or a bridge that goes over this gully so oh wow that's cool. Should we go down there? Yeah let's go down there, let's go and have a look. Then we can get down this way, there's a staircase. Oh wow look at that, that's awesome, croaky. What a beautiful bridge, 1854. That's awesome isn't it? Cave in there look, people doing carvings on the rock. So people do come out here to climb the rocks as well like where we were just now over at Portland Bill Lighthouse. On the ledges that are down there you see lots of people taking their crash mats down and they go and try and climb the ledges and climb the rock faces down there which is pretty cool. Something I've always been interested in and wanted to give a give a go but you know I could only get so high and then probably freak myself out and want to get down. Wow that's really cool. All right let's see if we can head back up this way. Nice. Look at all the rocks that have fallen down the cliff there. Wow, that's crazy. And look at all those, they're like, I don't know, it's like a little allotment almost of little buildings, little cabins I guess. It doesn't look like an allotment, it doesn't look to be anything growing down there but it could be locals who have just got little kind of sheds they come down to and, I don't know, put the deck chairs out, enjoy some sun. That view though, that's pretty incredible isn't it? It's got to be one of the most stunning views in Dorset. The sea is so blue as well, I almost want to get in myself. God, that's warm out there. There's no better feeling than when you've been outside sweating all day and then you get back into your van and it's just ice cold air conditioning on your face. All right, let's have a look and see where we're going to park tonight. All right, so there isn't really anywhere to park. Um, there's just nowhere to park overnight here really, unless I go on an industrial estate again. So what I'm thinking, just to make my life easier, is we'll go to the car park, it was just down the road, uh, on Chesil Beach. It's kind of like this one here. Where's my camera gone? This one here. So we're actually along Chisel Beach. It's probably going to cost insane money to park there just for like a couple of hours, but I think we'll park there. That's where I'm going to cook dinner tonight. Might even go for a little walk along Chesil Beach as well. Then I can show you guys the actual Chesil Beach. And then from that car park, I'll then head to Dorchester later this evening. And I'll just park up in Dorchester tonight and sleep in Dorchester. And then I'm there and I can hit the gym tomorrow morning, shower up. And I think that's a plan. I think that's a plan. All right, I'm going to get myself a cold drink and then we'll hit the road. Okay so the car park I was going to go in which is that one I'm just driving past right now on the opposite side of the road is because I've just had to drive past it, go down another roundabout, turn around and come back because that one you can't park any vans in at all. Doesn't matter whether it's a camper van, a motorhome, HTV, you're not allowed to park vans in there at all. So that's mildly inconvenient. So instead I'm driving back up this way. and i caught sight of a little like lay-by type place opposite this supermarket down here and there was a few other vans parked there and it didn't look like you you needed to pay we're gonna try and park there and see if uh see if we can have better luck this will do all right i think we're gonna be right here so i saw a sign coming in and it says Chesil Beach heritage site no camping no barbecues and fires doesn't say anything about paying though so I think we'll be alright, make sure the van's locked and then we'll head up over the beach, innit? It's gonna be a workout getting over there though, I can feel it. So this is where we are, so that's the road we came in on and this is where we're parked and then we was going to be parked way up there but we're now here. There's nothing about paid parking here and there's nothing about not being able to park there so we should be alright. Just seems a little weird that you've got that kind of free bit of parking. And everywhere else is paid, but I don't know. Right, this, my friends, is Chesil Beach. So it kind of starts there, and that's the Isle of Portland. And then it goes all the way along that way. And we've got to get up over here first. And it's all these large pebbles. So it's going to be a little bit of a workout, because you kind of sink as you're walking. It's all good, right? You can see the windsurfers out there as well, look. Right in the very distance there's a windsurfer, some people on boats. It's a cool spot. Oh bro, what a view. Not bad, not bad at all. Wow, look at the Isle of Portland from here. It's incredible. So we were way up there just now on top of those cliffs. That's where we were hiking up there. You can see all the kind of landslide of rocks and rubble I was kind of Kind of talking about and then the lighthouse is way around the other side. That there is the prison up in there and then just down there is the van. Oh I don't know where I'm pointing. Somewhere down here is the van. What a view. That's mega, isn't it? Look at it. It goes for as far as the eye can see. Right down there. Pretty awesome. Oh wow, that's incredible. It looks so steep down there as well. That's crazy. We shall venture down. Feels like if I go down there I'm not coming back up. I don't know if the camera can quite get how steep it is. Look, I'm holding the camera kind of like straight right now. It just literally drops like that. And we've just come down these massive banks here. Isn't that incredible? Phenomenal. All right, see if we can go down. Wish me luck. Wow, it's so steep. Look at how it just drops in. That's crazy. It's so clear as well. But after about like, I can see about, Six foot in, and then it just kind of drops off, so I'd actually be a little nervous about going in there. And the current looks quite strong, so yeah, nah, we'll, yeah, I don't feel that comfortable going in there on my own today. Look down the beach here, just goes on for miles and miles and miles. Look how the waves are breaking as well, they're kind of just like, they're going like sideways along and breaking. Just a little further up, I don't know whether you can see that. I love coming and sitting by the sea. It's so calming. I don't know what it is, whether it's like the thought of just being near water or crashing of the waves, like not having anything around you, like you can just see for hundreds of miles of nothingness. It really helps to clear your mind, you know, when you're when your head is just busy with a thousand thoughts. That was hard. I can't remember if I said this in the video or not but I've never actually been on Chesil Beach ever in my entire life and I've lived next door to it forever for the last 37 years. I've never actually been on Chesil Beach. Well that's a lie, technically I've been on it but like 10 miles that way which is near Abbotsbury. And it's kind of connected to the land there whereas you know here it's more kind of you've got land and sea either side. So yeah I've never actually been on this part of it. It's very cool though. Very cool. Just incredibly steep to get up that. That was a workout that was. But what a view. You can even see the breakwater. So again it's probably going to be really hard for me to show you on this camera but there's a breakwater. Hang on a second. There's a breakwater which runs right the way out there along and you've got an entrance there and then it runs along again. Hang on, where's my finger? All the way along and then there's another entrance kind of around here and the other side of this harbour bit the other side and then there's another bit that runs all the way along there. So perhaps I'll put Google Maps up and show you here what it looks like from the air and there's a couple of entrances there but you know it's what it looks like from ground level. So this kind of Bit of the harbour here or this bit of the inlet. I don't know what you call it but but we're almost back at the van. Have one little last look at Portland over there look. Beautiful place, beautiful. I think you can actually walk so the southwest coast path you can actually walk all the way along there and go right round to the lighthouse and round the other side and back. It's kind of a loop walk. Obviously it avoids the prison but you can... God, dear. Bit windy. Yeah it avoids the prison but you can walk most of the island. Well I wasn't going to cook in this like little car park on the side of the road but to be honest with you I can't be bothered to find somewhere else to park at the moment and I think after this I'm going to drive to Dorchester anyway so I think I'm just going to do my dinner here and there's only like these few cars here and then the road and then we've got one car by the side of us here. We are literally on this main road but I don't really care to be honest with you, I'm hungry and I want to do my dinner so and if I don't cook my dinner and I don't do it now I know what's going to happen, I'm going to be driving back to Dorchester and I'm probably going to stop in a shop. and then buy junk and we don't want to do that because we're trying to stay on plan. So we've got some chicken thighs, I've got some tenderstem broccoli and I'm going to do a couple of eggs, some egg whites and probably some cottage cheese as well because fills me up for ages, it's high protein, won't make me hungry later and yeah that's what we're cooking. So we've got our chicken here which I've already weighed out, that's 200 grams. Trying to weigh my food out every day as well and make sure that I keep to my plan, keep to my calories. I've got some chicken seasoning we're going to dump in there, yes, and then we'll do a little bit of salt and pepper as well, even though there's probably a ton of salt. In the chicken seasoning already. It's crazy I was actually looking at seasonings in the shop the other day and it's mad when you look at it how much of it is literally just salt. Someone I put it in my comments actually last week. I was actually curious, so I kind of was like looking around the supermarket and seeing just how much like salt and stuff was in seasonings. And yeah, there was this one of them, which was like a roadhouse rub or something. And I was like, ooh, that sounds nice. I looked on the back of it and it was like 40% of it was like Himalayan salt. And the seasoning itself was like 17 or not 17, seven pound I think it was. And I was like, well, I'm not paying seven pound just for salt, you know? I might as well like photograph the ingredients, which I did. and uh make my own just getting our seasonings all mixed around here with a little bit of olive oil and then we can uh get our chicken on the go dude i'm gonna have to put my fans up a little bit as well because it is so hot in the back of the van all right i think it was probably a sensible idea to uh stay and do my dinner here as well because uh it's actually rush hour at the moment so traffic's just gonna be mental everywhere so i might as well stay here do Do me dinner and then commute up to Dorchester later on. Traffic everywhere. The camera's probably not going to pick it up but like there's a massive queue of traffic right along the peninsula here where all these cars are going to join because there's a roundabout and like traffic lights as soon as you get off the peninsula here so yeah I don't want to be stuck in that. I think then what we're going to do is we'll do a couple of eggs and I'm going to do two tablespoons of egg whites to go with it. I did it. Eggs are obviously really good for you and they're high in protein but the yolks are actually quite fatty. So at the moment I've been having two whole eggs and then I do two tablespoons of egg whites which still gets me a ton of protein but keeps the fat off a little bit and as I put all my food into my fitness pal and I'm tracking everything at the moment I know like where I'm hitting like my protein my calories my carbs my fats all that stuff so I can look at it here. Yeah my whole dinner tonight should be 590 calories with 80 grams of protein so yeah. It's pretty good, it's pretty good. Get our egg whites out. Chicken's looking good. Ooh! I'm on a real chicken thigh kick at the moment just because they're so much tastier than chicken breasts. I've eaten dry chicken breasts for as long as I can remember. Chicken thighs I don't know they're just juicy, succulent, bit of seasoning on them, not much effort and you've got a banging meal so yeah I'm all about my chicken thighs at the moment. They smell good too. All right I'm going to kick them to one side in a minute and then we can put our egg in there and we can get that going. I'm also going to put our broccoli on, get our broccoli steaming in there. Just put a little bit of water in the pan as I always do, sit the broccoli in it, steam it up, job done, nice and simple. Look at that chicken, look at it. I just realised I'd never hit record on the whole egg process and yeah, just finished doing my eggs and realised I never hit record. Yeah, yeah, that's how tonight's going. Anyway, we've got our egg. We've done it like sort of scrambled and it doesn't look the best, but it's gonna be tasty. So scrambled egg, got our chicken, got our broccoli. Now it's time to plate up. All right, first up, gonna go on with our tender stem broccoli. And we're gonna get our chicken on. Gonna do our egg, it can go there, beauty. And then I'll leave a space in the middle for the cottage cheese. And how I normally do this is just put my plate on here, reset my scales. and then I don't know how much cottage cheese I'm dishing up. Need 150 grams ideally which should be this container because they're 300 grams each and I took 150 out last time so oh god spilling it. I'm going to use my spoon it's what I normally use okay 89 137 I think we're on to a winner 150. 153 that'll do I'm happy with that. Now a lot of people don't like the texture of cottage cheese I don't know what to tell you. I think it's an amazing food because with cottage cheese, I wrote some notes here. So cottage cheese, one of the best foods to lose weight because you've got typically like 14 grams of protein per 100 calories, which is a ridiculous amount of protein. And also, it's basically a... Casein protein. Unlike other proteins, which break down fairly fast, casein protein breaks down really, really slowly, and it helps keep a slow release of amino acids trickling through your bloodstream for hours, which helps keep you fuller for longer and can reduce snacking between meals. And I know through having this, combined with high-protein chicken, eggs, egg whites, it's a massively high-protein meal. I mean, there's like 80 grams of protein protein on this plate and it's now 20 to six, like I'm not gonna feel hungry for the rest of the night now, which evening time for me is always a problem. So what am I doing? Knife and fork. Yeah, evening time is always a problem for me. So yeah, I think anything I can do, Anything I can do like in the evenings to kind of like curb my cravings and prevent me snacking or driving to the shops to go and get cookies because that's what I normally do or ice cream. Anything I can do to stop that I'm all for you know I mean this is definitely not something that you would probably normally do like having cottage cheese in the middle of your dinner but hey I don't care. i'm all about it i'm all about i'm all about the solution let's uh give this a go so i do like the chicken i do the egg i do a bit of cottage cheese a bit of broccoli get it all on there you know and it's really tasty as well especially with the chicken thighs like if you bought a chicken seriously get some chicken thighs if you bought a chicken breast all the time get some chicken thighs season them up it's so juicy they're really good i'm absolutely sweltering in the van right now i've got all the fans going i've got the windows open baking i know you guys might be You might be thinking as well, I eat pretty much the same food all the time and that's kind of true. This is what I was kind of explaining to someone a couple of days ago. For me like living in the van, There's so many decisions I have to make on like a daily basis, especially when I'm filming. I mean even when I'm not filming, just like where I'm going, where I'm parking, where I'm basing myself for the day, where I'm going to be parking that evening. Have I got enough electric? Have I got enough water? Where am I going to be getting water next? How long is my water lasting? But there's so many decisions and so many things I'm thinking about on a daily basis. You can almost get Yeah, decision fatigue. It can be really, really hard to introduce new things and have to think about new things all the time because you're just like, I just want to sit down. I just want to have something to eat. I think a lot of the time that's where I've fallen off on my diet as well because I'm constantly thinking about like, well, what am I going to eat now? What am I going to eat now? So when it comes down to it, like if I eat the same food every single day, yes, it does get a little bit boring, but I look at it as like, let me just... Eat the same thing every day. Let me just use it as fuel for my body. I have my plan. I'm in my calorie deficit. I'm working out. I'm doing all the things I need to do to be able to lose weight over a period of time. So if I can just remove like the decision-making process of like, well, what am I going to cook tonight? Well, how much do I need of what foods and all the rest of it? Like just creating one shopping list of the week and having done with it. I've actually found it like a huge, I don't know really, I don't know what to call it, but. you know like a massive just just something i don't have to think about and it enables me enables me a bit of breathing room and a little bit more time to focus my energy on other things rather than about you know what i'm cooking all the time so and that's not to say that i'm not going to be cooking some good food in the van we're still going to cook some great food there's in different dishes and things but just for now while i'm like you know on this health kick and trying to drop a few pounds and trying to get myself back on track it's just a little bit It's a little bit easier for me, that's all. Well, that definitely filled me up. Oh, I needed that. It's all that walking up and down the beach. Well, I think I'm going to get this lot cleared up and then I'm going to head to Dorchester, go shower up and then call it a night. So I think that's where I'm going to leave you guys. 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