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Van Life - Traveling full-time with 2 large dogs 🐕🐕🚐

Let’s do introductions first! ☺️

🐕Summer is a black Labrador retriever. She is a very active 3-year-old girl and we have had her since she was 2 months old. Summer is a true water dog and if she would have a chance she would never leave the water and continue to retrieve sticks and other things until the end of the days!

🐕Shadow is a rescue dog from Romania. We got him when he was 6 months old and he will be celebrating his second birthday soon. He was a very nervous puppy when we first brought him home with separation anxiety, fear of others and little discipline outside. We worked really hard over the last 12 months and with the help from Summer, he has become a confident young boy.

Both pooches were used to living in a big three-story house with beds on each floor (no joke!) until one day we moved into a studio flat on wheels that teleports them to new places every time it moves! 🚐☺️

Our day to day life with dogs is pretty great. Summer probably has spent more time on adventures in the last 3 months than in the last 3 years! Hikes, swimming, sunbathing and chilling at the crag are the order of a typical day for Summer and Shadow right now✨

I truly believe Summer and Shadow are living their best lives and it makes me so happy to see them enjoy life every day. Whilst there are some challenging days, they are few and far between and I wouldn’t have it any other way!

To read the full story, head to my blog. Link in bio ❤️

Let me know in the comments below if you think your dog would love a van life? ☺️

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⚠️ Best phone apps for your Van Life/ wild cam

⚠️ Best phone apps for your Van Life/ wild camping in Europe ⚠️

👉Park4night - can help you find a place to sleep. The app not only directs you to a parking spot, but also informs you of the amenities available and provides extensive user ratings and images of the spot.

👉Toilet Finder - is a service that locates public restrooms. The locations are categorised into categories, such as public restrooms, gas stations, and restaurants. The app also tells you whether there is a fee for using it and how clean it is.

👉Wifi Map - can help you find good internet. This app not only lists a big number of hotspots that may be used, but it also shows you how to get to the nearest phone tower.

👉myLPG.eu - an app that helps you locate LPG stations. The app will display your current location and a list of nearby stations.

Find this post helpful? Save it for later 🥰 and let me know which one is your favourite?
Perhaps, you know an app that I don't ☺️? 👇

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Do you ever struggle to commit to a climb? Do you

Do you ever struggle to commit to a climb? Do you sometimes bail or stop climbing halfway up a route? Do you sometimes have good days when it's going great and bad days when you don't want to climb at all? 😱

I have been involved with climbing for over a decade now and I have had times when I have climbed regularly every week and times when I wouldn't climb for weeks or months. I was never competitive and would often switch between bouldering and sport climbing without being too bothered about the grades.

Since starting van life and having access to amazing crags in Spain, I am more motivated than ever before to go climbing and push my limits.

Little did I know that my limited experience in climbing outdoors will be a real source of never-ending frustration! Not being able to read routes well, I have been finding even simple easy routes difficult to manage mentally and challenging to commit to do moves that are even a little bit outside my comfort zone.

Oh and don't get me started if there is even the slightest risk of taking a fall! I would quickly start to panic, freeze, waste a lot of energy over gripping and eventually stop climbing.

Having said that, it's not all doom and gloom and I have made some real progress. I have climbed more hard routes here in Spain in the last 2 months than since I started climbing nearly 10 years ago. I still have a steep learning curve to climb and despite having both good and bad days at the crag I am improving every day.

I guess I just wanted to share this in case you feel the same way and let you know that you are not alone in your mental battles at the crag!

Let me know how you overcome your fear while climbing, let's motivate each other to keep going❤️

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What's up, IG! Welcome to my budget breakdown of h

What's up, IG! Welcome to my budget breakdown of how much it actually cost to live & travel in a van 💸⁠
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There is this negative social stigma behind money and a lot of people shy away from conversations about it. But I'm here to break the rules so buckle up and learn about how much does it actually cost living on the road 🙂 ⁠
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April was our first full month living in a van in Spain and I am going to breakdown our budget for the month. ⁠
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👉🏼 For the essentials we spent £617* ⁠
👉🏼 For non-essentials we spent £255.64 ⁠
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*This included the cost of our first breakdown in the van (RIP Water Pump) which was a costly affair 😥⁠
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To see a full breakdown, head to my blog, link in bio ♥️⁠
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What are your thoughts? Is this a sensible monthly spending budget for two people in a van with two dogs? Let me know!⁠
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OMG, we were left with no water 🚰 🚐⁠ ⁠ S

OMG, we were left with no water 🚰 🚐⁠
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Sooner or later something was bound to go wrong when living full time on the road. We knew it and we greeted every challenge with open arms. In a way when something does go wrong, we are a little bit excited to see how we are going to deal with it. It's challenging, it's new and we are up for it! 💪⁠
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We woke up one morning to find a leak on the floor. After a short investigation, it was clear that our water pump has gone to a better place. Rest in peace Mr Water Pump. We had a small water leak overnight that got on the wiring and apparently water and electric cables don’t cope well together. Who knew? ⁠🤔⁠
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It was the start of the bank holiday weekend and we knew it will be a few days living without running water in the van. We managed to do some of our washing up in the river and made a few trips to the local village to get some water in the mornings. It wasn't great but totally manageable for a few days⁠ 😶‍🌫️⁠
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The nearest motorhome repair garage was over an hour's drive away and despite messaging them over the weekend they were pretty quick to respond. The guy in the garage didn’t speak any English but was super helpful and managed to fix everything in less than an hour. Turned out he was also a climber so we are now officially friends 😎⁠
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If you are travelling around the Valencia region, save this post just in case you need a reliable repair garage at a reasonable price. They have two locations:⁠
📌 Teruel ⁠
📌 Canet d´en Berenguer⁠
Search for @mundo_camper_van
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👉 If you already live in a van, what was your first breakdown story, and how did you deal with it?⁠
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👉 If you are not a van-lifer, how long do you think you could last with no running water? ⁠
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Life isn't perfect, but my van essentials are 😂

Life isn't perfect, but my van essentials are 😂🚐

This week I wrote a blog post about Top Boring Van Life Essentials we bought or forgot to buy 🙈 if you considering van life, I hope this is helpful. If you already a van lifer, is there anything I have missed out on? let me know below 👇

As always, link in bio for a full post ❤️

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How much does it cost to live and travel in a van?

How much does it cost to live and travel in a van? 🚐

I'm glad you asked! So many people say living in a van is cheap but is it actually cheap when you add up all the costs?!💸

We have been living full-time in our motorhome for a month now and just got around to adding all the expenses so I thought I will share this with you all.

This hasn't been a typical month in van with a few additional expenses and we are still experimenting what's cost effective and what's not. Things like a grocery bill was high because we left with an empty motorhome so had to stock up on everything from 0. I am expecting our spending will be a lot lower in April🤞Bear in mind that the costs are between two people and two large dogs 🐕🐕👫

To see the full breakdown head to my blog, link in bio! ❤️

How much did you think living and traveling in a van cost? Were you surprised with my breakdown? Did you expect to see a bigger or smaller number? Let's chat 👇

Stay tuned for the next budget update! Coming in May ☺️

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How to stay safe while living on the road 🚐 Ex

How to stay safe while living on the road 🚐

Exploring the outdoors in your van, motorhome or even a car can be a fantastic idea, and it can be one of the best adventures you will ever have. Considering that your vehicle will become your home for the short-term or long-term, your worst nightmare is someone breaking into your van or even stealing it. So it’s important to keep your home on wheels safe and most importantly your mind at peace!

In my recent blog post I share all the safety measures we are taking while living on the road. So go ahead and head to www.helloaelita.com to read all about it ☺️❤️

If you have some great safety tips, don't forget to share them with me below 👇 🥰

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This year alone, what has been your happiest memor

This year alone, what has been your happiest memory? 🌻

For me it was the first morning in Pyrenees Mountains, France. We arrived really late at night, and didn't really knew what our surroundings looked like. I woke up super early, made myself a cup of coffee and run outside to see where we parked up. The views, the fresh air, sound of the river, snowy mountains... Everything hit me at once and I felt like happiest human alive. My pooches were running around, chasing each other, I sat by the river and slowly drank my coffee. I loved every moment of that morning and I will forever love this memory.

The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy ❤️

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I have sent my firts 7a project 🧗‍♀️ I a

I have sent my firts 7a project 🧗‍♀️

I am beyond excited that I have finally had the courage to lead a 7a route. For the past couple of years I have been focusing on bouldering mainly, and while I know that I have the physical strength to climb a 7a, I'm struggling mentally to achieve that. While I'm not afraid of heights, and I don't think I'm afraid of falling, some sort of unknown fear is definitely living in my head. And it always goes the same way.

I am high up on the route, I am tired, I can't see where I'm supposed to be going, my feet are slipping and I'm over-gripping, am I about to fall? 😮 Minor panic attack and I'm either taking a fall or over-gripping all the way to the finish line or at least to the next clip 🤷

I have promised to myself to take it easy and learn to control my fear, by leading as little or as much as I want. I find that some days I feel braver than others. But this 7a was a great project for me. It had one hard bouldering move and was only about 20metres long, so in line with my endurance levels. This climb gave me much needed confidence boost and I then went to lead a 6c which was 35m long. Sadly two clips to the finish line the fear took the best of me, and I have decided to stop and go down 😩

Climbing is weird like that, it can give you the best confidence boost one day, and take it all away the next 🙈

But for now, I'm celebrating my first 7a outdoors and my courage to keep trying.

I would like to know if anyone else feels like this and if so, how do you cope?

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Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you e

Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place like Siurana ❤️

A little throwback to foggy Siurana couple of weeks ago 🌫️🏞️

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Those brown eyes ❤️ Shadow is adapting well t

Those brown eyes ❤️

Shadow is adapting well to traveling around the Spain, and living in a van 🚐 this little sausage is becoming an expert in making a comfortable nap spot anywhere we go 🐕🏞️

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