We Had To Survive EXTREME COLD in a Van

In this vanlife Switzerland travel video, we put our tiny campervan to the test with subzero temperatures. We continue our winter vanlife journey in to the Swiss mountains to Lauterbrunnen, a picturesque Swiss village where we stay at the Jungfrau campsite to survive the cold.

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Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Alex & Emma, a British couple who have been exploring the world together for over 10 years - from backpacking to vanlife:

2012/13: We both embarked on our own solo backpacking trips through Southeast Asia, where we would eventually meet at a hostel in the mountains of Thailand and begin traveling together. After a year and a half of backpacking around Southeast Asia & Australia, we returned home and to the corporate world!

2015: Travel Beans was born and we filmed our first videos on a road trip around Europe with friends! This was our biggest trip yet.. and you can go back and watch the entire adventure because we filmed ALL of it! This trip took us through Russia, Mongolia & China, on the longest railway journey in the world. Followed by highlights such as staying on a local island in the Maldives for a month, going on safari in Sri Lanka, couchsurfing & hitchhiking in Korea, seeing the snow monkeys in Japan, island hopping in the Philippines, trekking 60km through the centre of Myanmar, exploring the Indian Himalayas, and checking out some of the incredible US National Parks.

2016: Despite an unbelievably memorable year and a half of travels, which we were incredibly grateful to have had the privilege to experience.. we found ourselves in New York City, battling depression. At this point, we decided to go home and confront this problem head-on.

2017: After 6 tough months at home we decided to go away again, but this time with a goal in mind.. to turn travel into a lifestyle. We left the UK with just £500 in our bank account and a dream to make a continuous travel lifestyle happen! We both got online English teaching jobs to be able to fund our travels and to keep creating videos. We can't quite believe that our younger selves decided to take this plunge but we are so grateful they did as we are still on this journey today!

What now?
Over the years, we've discovered that we LOVE road trips and even decided to renovate our very own little VWT4 van into a campervan to be able to enjoy vanlife and spend more time on the road. We are now the proud owners of 2 awesome little campers - one based in the UK and one that we keep in the USA. You'll often find us using one of these vans to explore Europe and North America. If you enjoy this kind of content we'd recommend checking out our Italy Road Trip series, USA vanlife series and our Japan in a Tiny Van series as well as our UK vanlife content.

Our time spent overcoming depression has influenced our outlook on life dramatically! We are now traveling the world in search of what makes us happy. We love sharing the highs and lows of our trips through our videos and hope to spread a little positivity and light to all of the beautiful people who take the time to tune in and watch each week!

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[danellis-jones]

It just occurred to me that this channel will be gold as your kids get older. We all get to a point where we're interested in what are parents were like before we were born. What they looked like. How they were together. What they looked like before they went grey! This channel is a treasure trove for your kids. It's quite a gift!

[garyhalkon]

Emma in the nesting stage of pregnancy and Alex wandering around like Paddington in the search for beer and apple juice 😂
Love you guys so much! Highlight to my WFH day on a Monday! ❤️

[GaryAndHeatherBush]

Beautiful! Props to you both traveling pregnant and in the cold. Applause for Emma- I’ve had 6 babies and I’d have wimped out just having to get out of the van and walk to a restroom repeatedly at night in that cold! You two have such a sweet relationship. Love your content.

[lottie]

Aw, Emma's nesting. How cute. Alex bemused at the seeming idiocy, so goes off hunter, gathering! It all makes perfect sense when you think about it.

[JitsIntoTheSunset]

It's safe to say that we miss doing winter van life with you two! At one point whilst watching you both giggle endlessly, Adam turned to me and said "aww, I love the Beans because this is exactly what they are like in real life!". Love you lots xx T

[sonjalengenfelder]

My husband and I got engaged in Lauterbrunnen. I am also 20 weeks pregnant and burst into tears at the footage. Oh memory lane and hormones ❤😂

[kvdme]

Nice to see couple that actual likes each other!

[dawnagrey]

A floating hot tub? Now that’s the life! And the whole lake to yourselves to boot can’t be beat. An enjoyable winter holiday for sure.

[lovelyhawaiigal]

My daughter is 6 months pregnant and it really makes me smile even more now watching you guys, enjoying Emma's pregnancy while you keep doing your van life! She and her husband and I (and their dog) did all caravan together cross-country in late October from Oregon to the east coast, stopping at Yellowstone (and we saw lots of lovely bison!). Awesome video!

[wcarlhepker]

In love RV life in winter, in Florida!! When I go to Florida for January and February, and I feel the nice warm temperatures (especially mid-day) and my phone is showing me the freezing temperatures back home, I am really very, very thankful!! Unfortunately, come the first of March, I have to get back home and collect all of my income tax info to get it to my CPA so he can file it all for me before the deadline! But, but, but, my house is out in the woods and I soon get to watch spring start to break out all over, transforming the forest. A joy to watch every year!!!

[norriestewart]

Def Emma nesting there not "tidying" as she stated. Surely getting things in place for Bean Junior's arrival.

[Prel]

Welcome to the wonderful world of maternal "nesting". She will organize (and reorganize) things again and again.

[epp]

I love seeing how you continue to just enjoy every little thing. You even appreciate the walk to the store. Your gratitude and appreciation come thru the screen. At a time when other travel YouTubers are just going through the motions, it is so refreshing to watch the Beans.

[gotpatience]

What a gorgeous landscape with the cutest towns! Omg

[judithberry]

As someone that needs a bathroom on board, I would not want to do "van" life in winter, but I would certainly do a small rv/travel trailer with an onboard bathroom/shower during the winter and absolutely love it.

[mraidymaddful]

In 1977 I was 14 and went on a school/youth club trip to Switzerland. We went to a place called Grindelwald, which is just above Interlaken and right next to the Matterhorn mountain. It has to be one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to. It was summertime and there were dozens of really high waterfalls similar to the ones the Beans saw. Big up

[cheryl...]

That's the best sitting in a hot tub out in the middle of an alpine lake! That is just wild!

[bettygadd]

Stay warm and no I don’t like being cold!

[marjazadow]

Switzerland is a dream vacation of mine, in the winter in a van, I’ll take it. You have such a cozy setup looks very comfy, love the hot tug, never saw anything like that before. Thanks for sharing your journey, and making it fun. ❄️🇨🇦