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traveling reporters and youtube. ers allison and eric bigler on there to work through central europe in an electric camper van. ah, they'll be taking us to tourist hotspot in germany, austria and italy as part to begins, they arrive at the chink with terror in northern italy. ah, good morning. good morning. allison and eric again with b w. travelers we have arrived at the 5 lands, also known as tink with dead. we're here and it is beautiful. i guess it's so beautiful. we're taking a break from the caper band today, mainly because cars are not allowed in the city. it's called the 5 lands, but it's actually more about the 5 villages in the area and they're super unique because they're all carved into the cliffside. they're made up of these incredibly colorful buildings. they are so picturesque and they sit right next to the sea. so you have this pristine blue water, complimenting all the cultural buildings in the villages. it's b. so this area is actually in a national park,

so there is every thing to do here. there's amazing wild life. there's hiking, you can stroll the beautiful cities or like us, you can eat the beautiful sitting if we're here to. yes. so the plan today is to visit each of the 5 villages, but also eat some local dishes along the way. all right, another perfect and delicious day in italy starts right now. awe we have made our 1st official food stop and it was actually tucked quite away in the 1st city. so just been wandering through the corridor, taking in all the bright colors. it's very charming, but we have come few pad to syria. laura for this, this little piece of pie is called them montrose sierra, and this is a believe apricots jam at the bottom, some custard, and then a chocolate layer. all sandwich between this lovely pastry and it is, i guess,

very, very famous glue. so the outside is actually nice and crunchy. almost . you mostly just chase the chocolate in here. i taste like perfectly melted hot cocoa or something like that in cape form. what kinda surprised me is that it's almost more crockery. i was expecting it to be maybe a little bit more soft and brittle, but it's definitely more like a cracker type, a texture on the top in the bottom. and then really the chocolate is the main flavor you get. and i'm not sad about that because it is delicious. we just realized that right across from the restaurant is i guess their kitchen where they may call it the peach trees. there's a guy in there actually right now, jim and now he's singing along, he's rolled out all this dough and he's buttering it, and heading in, rolling it into one of their histories. looks like a lot of fun. mid smoke boston we're currently in

granada, and that is monte row. so where we started this morning to get in between each city, you have several options you could drive, but you have to go up through these winding mountain roads and it takes an extremely long amount of time. another option is you can actually hike between every city without stopping though it takes about 5 to 6 hours. there is also a ferry on the water that you can take, which we did last time. we were here, it's a lot of fun in the summer time, but there is a 4th option, the best option, the option that we're doing, and that is the train because it cuts through all of these hills and takes about 4 minutes to get in between each town and so that of an hour or so, we only had time for a quick scroll through this city because we have a date with lunch in the next city. yes. and a very special spot with hopefully a very special view. yes. mm hm.

with wow. like those stairs were never going to him. oh yeah, he kept going like around one corner and you and really see. and you turn mind be like when we got that double left would have already done. but our restaurant is conveniently located right at the top of the stairs. yeah, you walk up your last step and you hear this like fun music playing and then it's the restaurant. mm hm. this is past oh, pasta. think with terry is actually part of a bigger region called luxurious and pesto was invented here. for those of you who do not know pesto is comprised of diesel pine, nuts, butter cheese, olive oil, all the best thing. and it's pureed and then tapped on all sorts of different passes in lesonia and bruschetta. it's in and on, all the things here. this is such a unique looking off the dish with the little potatoes in there and green beans. oh,

good pest are very good customer. i love that they make the past out then days what has a little bit of a bite to it and then the pesto is just the only way i can use to describe it is just fresh. it is very, very delicious. to be honest, i was actually more excited about this sea bass ravioli. now manage to sleep towed . dang delicious. wow, that is very, very good. the minute hit your tongue. it's a flavor explosion. so cheesy and buttery and just packed full of flavor. i'm a huge fan of the get the sea bass ravioli come here. ready guys, we made it to the southern most village. real mature. it is

a beautiful white guys. oh okay. i can decide which one is my favorite because that even though they all look similar, they have a similar architecture style. they're all different in their own ways. yellow, but we got who, oh, this is another thing is region is actually known for. they have very good catchy. now if you're not familiar with couches, just kind of a flat bread similar to pizza dough, but they put all these intentions in it before they bake it, and that is key because it holds all the toppings and all of the oil. it's absolutely delicious. and you guys know the dough itself is the star of the couch. i mean, obviously the ingredients are delicious, but it's just so soft and pillowy. then you have all this oil cake on the top map. it is a lot like pizza, but just basically thicker. what an awesome spot. he forgot you. checks out. i'm not even looking. i'm a building. i just now look down. well, you know with the holy cow, it never mind. i think the back of the terrifying spot hipa katya.

ah ah. finally, you have got to catch the sunset from one of the cities we chose mineral as the final city. we haven't seen you guys, but we're here. our original plan was to catch the sunset from a restaurant up on top of the hills that you get to see the sun go down on the city itself. unfortunately, the key was way too long. yeah. so we found out that you can have a takeaway drink and come sit on the water itself and what found that out? it's awesome because you still have new to the city of there. every sunset over there. amazing company right here. oh to oh, wonderful, wonderful day. for the to adventurers are ready to move inland and away from the sea. ah,

the 3rd exit on mister keller's shots, ross strata told a $49.00 to is darion. that allison bells full ah, our electric hampton road trip continues and this is the lowest that this thing has gotten so far. we've got to about a quarter tank. i'm saying tank battery. i think we're getting the hang of this electric charging you guys. we've been scouting out the stations ahead of time. we make sure to get this, which is the quick chart does super dr. jackson. 2 other types of charges here. sometimes this one that we need isn't the one that they have, which is it'll still work. it'll just take a lot longer, so i'm actually won't work like this one here. this one does it, no matter what we can make this one. so you have to make sure that you got up the station that has the right charging plug. and sometimes they're either taken or they're broken. so we try to find a spot that has a few others nearby, just so we don't roll up on empty. and then we're not able to find another charging

station. yeah, this is the 1st time we've used this ion of the one though, there's all kinds of different brands and we have a card specifically for this one. so this one's going to work well for us to work because we have other card that are supposed to be working everywhere we go and they have not been working everywhere we go, we're going to get charged up. and then we're heading further east into italy and we'll share with you all later what our plans are with we have about 70 kilometers left on our charge. and it's always tricky to decide. do we keep driving and run down the charge a little bit further? until, you know, maybe there's like 2030 kilometers. then you run the risk of getting to the station . the charter. it doesn't work or what except the card and then you're kinda screwed in the middle of nowhere. or do you just kinda bite the bullet in charge

a little bit earlier than maybe you want to. and we've been charging earlier than maybe we want to because we really don't want to get stranded. the good news is we found a really awesome charger has or type of connector right here. yes. or, and y'all charged up plus there is anita leave right over here. you guys, we spoke too soon, we have these 3 different cards. they gave us to use of the charging stations. i'm a single one of them work our credit card. so work. i'm actually on hold with this company right here, e b way, which apparently they have an app where you add payments. then you can use that to start charging. it doesn't work, gives me an error message every time i try to do it, she's working through it and trying to started for me, but i don't think it's going to happen. but on the phone with her bright half an hour and i think we're about to give up. we were so excited about the electric vehicle in the beginning of our road trip. everything was working pretty well. and now we've had several instances like this where we counted on the charging station, it has the right plug, it should work, and it just doesn't. we lost

a whole bunch of time. we have to go find another one. hopefully that one works and then we have to wait another 45 minutes or so for to recharge. there's not off to a good start, it's already 4 pm, so we're not making good time because of all this. no, we were hoping to get to our hotel early and do some sightseeing and that will not be happening today. all right, give it the road and go to the next station. let's go. okay, we found an eye on the charger. we have an eye on the card. this should all work. all right, this one is working. we are getting charged. finally, the so stupid y'all. we thought it was going to be so fun and easy. we had apps, we had all the right cards done and turns out there's a lot more did turgeon occur than i ever would imagine. on the bless said though, this, it's like, it's one of your 100 kilowatt. our 1st and from this morning max are at 50, so maybe that would be no really with mutual mortgage

derivative of it to make up for their troubles. it's looking like their next day in northern italy will be perfect weather. ah, the region is filled with beautiful vineyards. we have arrived to our next destination in the treviss. so province we came to hotel, do car peny, and it is a very, very special place. as you can see, it sits right smack in the middle of an incredible vineyard vines. as far as the i can see rolling hills, epic classic italian countryside. so you guys saw we had a little bit of car trouble charging our electric vehicle yesterday. so that means we got in a lot later than we wanted to, our plan was to spend a lot more time this region because they have obviously really epic winery. so we were going to go to a wine tasting, take some time to stroll around the vineyard. of course,

you can get some incredible pictures around here, but we did manage to get a bright and early so we could come out, stroll among the vines and just take it at least a little bit of the views before we head on. this is the amazing room we stayed in last night. this is actually the top level of the old farm house where the farm workers from the vineyard used to live it since been converted into a hotel were absolutely in love with the architecture. you can see they've got these beautiful stone walls. they have whole tree trunk through the roof is the support. it's all raw, it's all beautiful. it's so mighty and rustic. sadly, we didn't get to spend as much time here as you want it to you. as you know, we got in very late last night, we thought we'd have the whole day to explore. and today we have to be off again. we go even further north. our ultimate destination is near the between now and then we're hoping to squeeze in just a few more incredible views. ah, like for example, lick, but i is about 150 kilometers to the north. their next destination. or

my advice to you all get here early because parking is pretty friggin wild and maybe don't come on a weekend. yeah. but cost us tenure to park and i think we got one of the very last spots we made in the lake. it's absolutely stunning. just like we thought and it's so serene. i feel like we have the whole thing to ourselves. y'all just get a everyone in the entire world is here. so according to the internet, they said you could rent these awesome little boat and we thought, you know, be like this little family out there. let you tell everyone is doing it. the line is like all the way backed up to the hotel. i mean, the place is incredible. it's still amazing. you can still get great views. you can hike around or walk around the entire lake. i'm just blown away by the amount of people. it's like the almost october. it's after the high season. so i can't even

imagine what this is like in the summer time. sorry, sadly, no, both today for the to gave. we've taken both that before. no big deal. so we decided to bail and out of the lake because we didn't really realize how awesome the lake is here at our camp site. this is it, this is what our campsite is built around that mag critical thing. yeah, it's pretty frequent suite of metal between this epic mountain view. the water is crystal clear and very, very still, most importantly, far, far less people are hardly anyone is out right now. it's essentially the exact same thing, just shrunken down, and it still has a walking trail completely around it, which i think we're going to go explore. supposedly there are some little streams a river is that poor end of this that are supposed to be a beautiful blue? we also my grab a beer or some per seco for the journey or a movie walk. ah,

i think i might have found the most tremendous wood pile ever crafted by me in clicking this but now she's going to keep backing up. i just got this horrible vision of this toppling over right on me now you'll be fine. oh yeah. i really want a climate to i we shouldn't. right? yeah. now that my make it topple over. you guys didn't know that we'd been here before. ah wonder what their names are pri, also american health. right. well they did all the hard work for us. let us know nice about we were just about to do it, but darn done. and oh, i better than we ever would. it's just a little power. i guess everyone's made little pictures in the rocks with their initials and stuff. does so a door. ah,

she's officially blown away. you guys sent this out. is that a beautiful stream or what? have you been on dealing with multiple now? what did i tell her? oh, maybe that straight from a really cold mouth. it made it to what might be the most beautiful charting station of this entire trend, the world maybe in the world as well. i don't know when we left this morning, we only had about 100 kilometers and this was a 120 kilometers. somehow we made it very well made it, but this is the lowest that our battery has gotten. we were below a quarter of charge on this thing. i'm so glad it worked out because we actually

stopped at other charters and they did not work this morning. so we made our way further into north eastern italy. we are just near the dolomites or ptolemy t, as they would say in italian. but they are these epic collection of mountains, but this is already pretty dang beautiful. we got incredible mountains over there. we've got mountains over there in some more mounds, behind the stars here. not a bad place to stop in charge of a super charming little mountain town. let's put it this way. if this charge doesn't work out, we're going to get a hotel stay here. you can be fine. so we just learned the hard way that you cannot charge other cars at a test, the supercharger station, even if the plug fits. so nice little lesson. but the downside of that is we only have 36 kilometers left on our range. and there are very few charging stations in the area. most of them are not quick charging, so we're going to one that's like a few kilometers down the road at a hotel. we'll see if a pains out we're just keeping our fingers crossed. if not, there's one like 20 kilometers away, but that'll be push. now we might get to it though, and if we try for the charging station israel, that's it right there. will it work?

oh my worried it happening is working very slowly, but it appears to be charging well we had 20 kilometers. yeah. so the thing with them to were below a quarter. 2 of a battery charge i was, wasn't it not gonna lie or haven't been now going to go work and now i'm going to go get the biggest cappuccino in the biggest chris on and just chill. ah . with check it out right now. i am in austria. and now i am in italy,

italy in italy. oh allison and eric dealers, journey in the electric van is coming to an end. it's time to head to the airport and back to munich. and to think back on the voyage it's been very interesting. there were things to learn, for example, you have 3 different levels of power when you're driving. if you're going downhill, for example, you're in the green charge area where it's actually charging your battery for you. when you hit a good cruising speed, you're in the eco mode, so you're using some of the battery but efficiently. and then when you have to speed up, go really fast. you get into the power mode and that seems to drain the battery quite a bit. so i've been trying to not go up into that power mode, which means that i speed up a lot more slowly and also the top cruising speed is around a 110 kilometers per hour. so i'm slower in general, so it felt

a little bad on some roads if you like, where the slow pokes. a huge part of the learning curve as you guys saw, was just figuring out how to charge properly. which charge or works for our type of vehicle? you guys saw that we went to the tesla charge station, which gets ours, but it doesn't charge it in the plug. sure that we've been using to find places to charge. if you search for the orange one, which i believe is the c c s 2 type, that is the type that fits ours, that has these 2 extra problems which make it charged walk faster. the supercharger . yeah. at 1st we were just searching for the green ones, which can take 5 hours to charge. so when we were plugged in today, we're like, well this isn't really going to work because we're only going to be here for about an hour. and then really just planning the route ahead of time as much as possible and having a fail safe. so if we find one that looks like it's going to work, we just kind of assume that that might not work. and then we find another one that's close by, or at least within my get or 20 kilometer, always have a backup. we've really just been trying to stay above a quarter charge on the battery and that seems to have gotten it everywhere we

needed to go. we didn't break down the side of the road, we knew. so i'm pretty happy by pretty proud because we had some big driving days, i guess. and also if you're planning a route, i would go over more than 200 kilometers in one drive. otherwise, you could potentially run into trouble or just constantly be having to find extra charging stations along your route. one of our goals at the beginning of this trip said i'll was to just create less weight since we're an electric legal. we were like, all right, let's try to make a little bit less trash on this road trip. and in general, i feel like we succeeded. we did make a bit of trash. and as you guys are seeing, we've been recycling along the way. and europe has made that very, very easy because there recycling centers like this all over the place. we did have just a couple plastic bottles. if we wanted to get water at the hotel they would usually put it in a plastic bottle. and then of course we did have you glass bottles, mostly wine and beer. and we actually haven't purchased one single used coffee cup this entire trip, which that's a lot for us because we drink a lot of coffee. you guys are right, we're all charged up. we're all recycled up the throat

with the thumb of our favorite scenery where it is driving through all these hills we are in the clouds right now. there's clouds wrapping all around, all the hills and mountains forest plan. this trip is really throwing all this beauty at us at the very end. oh, it's like the most beautiful drive ever. yeah. then you go straight from this to being on an airplane for howard. yeah. you will, but all right, we have about 45 minutes to munich. we're going to drop off the car. hopefully there's no damage that we're not aware of. i don't remember getting anything. it can be off to here with, we've dropped oper, camper van. all was, well, i'm kind of sad to leave it behind now, just so much fun. it was by faith to her just

like that are incredible. road trip through europe is over all her. i'm so sad. it's over. yeah. as you can see you, we traded in our nice fancy, like vehicle for oh, gas guzzler here. man. we really squeezed the last little bits out of summer while we were traveling through italy off because as you can see behind us, it is very, very far and 100 percent fall. but the plus side of that is it's very beautiful. the leaves are changing all over the place. awesome. we had such an incredible time traveling through europe. saw so many amazing sites met so many awesome people had a blast. if you missed any of our european road trip adventure, all those videos are going to be linked in the description below, but check it out and we want to give a huge thank you to d, w. travel for helping us coordinate this whole adventure. we had such a blast, it was such a unique experience and we couldn't have done it without them. that's all for us.

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