
In this vlog I’ve travelled from Bragança back down to Central Portugal for a house sit in Cantanhede in the Coimbra district. I sort out my UK to Portuguese driving licence exchange, rejig my car and camping gear…but never get around to camping!
I put my PowerOak Bluetti through it’s paces as when I used it while camping before it just kept cutting out.
I go up to the Guarda district to view a couple of places, witness wild fires and visit @cyndy Bella Pedra farm.
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00:00 Intro
00:38 Driving licence exchange
05:10 Testing out my PowerOak Bluetti powerbank
05:32 Portable 100w solar panel
18:27 Guarda District
20:41 Wild fires in Central Portugal
23:15 View from The Gardunha mountain range
27:13 Bella Pedra off-grid farm in Central Portugal
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Dark smoke means the fire is active and burning new materials. White smoke means they have it's being hit with a lot of water and possibly under control. Stay safe!
O no…the mice have eaten your car seats.. you have gone so much trouble to get your car into Portugal.. It's so nice to see the land overview where many of the youtubers are located. I follow many of the others and Christine from girl meets farm too, As a newbie farmer she just bought a farm in Penamacor looking up the castle tower..
Louise you are a power house… thanks for sharing your adventures 👌💯🤗
30th 😅 lol. I have SO much to learn about solar before …you know. That was interesting to watch, and I’m taking mental notes, even from the comments. It’s interesting to see the areas through the seasons. Very helpful. Car camping is fun. Probably more fun in tolerable temperatures. 🥵 Thanks, Luise.
I was waiting for the dog to go down that slide!
I'll guess the word low-RISK area does say it all. There is a RISK. Altough its low. Its a risk and stays a risk. Every year again.
Haha the mice had party, well done on changing your driving license, so many ignore the law.
"What? What?? What do you want, lampshade?" 😄
My! look how much Juno has grown! She looks almost as big as Thandi 😳.
You're so nice to loop over to Cindy's to check what's what at Bela Pedra and lend a helping hand. You really help Cindy's progress. Bless you 🤗.
That bit of A25 that you admired was very pretty.
Oo, this is my first view from the crest of the Gardunha! The orientation view you gave us helped me visualize where many CP youtube channels are in relation to one another. I didn't realize Monsanto is somewhat in sight of most the channels you named. Maybe Quinta Font da Pipa is on the other side of the Gardunha behind Alpedrinha?? I also cannot visualize where Jasper is… he seems much closer to CB than everybody else and way far from where Alex is 🤷🏻♀️. Cool, nice visual, Luise 😊👍🏼.
You HAVE to force that plug in. 😀 You can't break it by doing that. That plug has to be fully inside otherwise it cuts off…
Omg Luise, you stayed in exactly the same AirB&B is myself and my mum when we visited a month or so back. Don't they have beautiful dogs!! I stayed in the AfricanRoyal or something like that!!
I think you limited the power of the cooker to medium!
Hi Luise, thanks for making this video. It came at the right time as we're shipping for power banks 🙂
Hi Luise, thank you for sharing your days with us! I had seen, somewhere else, that you don't have to worry about exchanging driver's licenses until, I think, next March. I've got to get myself over there before… I know many people have had a terrible time trying to get it done.
The fires have been disastrous. All those firefighters giving so much of themselves.
Take care x
Hi to Cindy.
Hope the butter beans were tasty. Hope you get the cooker working all the time. Try to stay cool. 🇵🇹🇺🇸
Not every power chargers are the same, the best are Bluetti and Jackery the 1000 of those brand name ones are very long-lasting, but we have to say the cookers take a lot of power, so no wonder it stops outputting, just saying!!!
Hope you had sunset beach dreams😊
The rocket stove uses very little fuel and would heat your liquid for your soup. Poor lampshade! I hope her cone is removed soon!
I would imagine the red light on the power adapter just shows you that’s it’s plugged in, the noise is the fan that cools the adapter ( there’s also one in the power bank) 74w from a 100w solar panel is pretty good, most won’t get the full wattage. Perhaps the plug on your insta pot is dodgy, or the inlet on your power oak
So heartbreaking seeing all those fires and to know what the communities have gone through 😪
A campervan of your own?