Football instrumentality Will Robey has spent a twelvemonth converting an aged enactment van into a luxury motorhome - to travel England connected the roadworthy this summer.
He has spent an estimated £12,000 to make the instrumentality mobile which present comes implicit with a treble bed, kitchenette - and large surface projector to travel each 51 games astatine the Euros successful Germany.
Will is leaving his location successful Redhill, Surrey, aboriginal connected Saturday and travelling 360 miles to the metropolis of Gelsenkirchen, wherever England play their archetypal lucifer against Serbia the pursuing evening.
Afterwards, Will and his duplicate member Ed volition travel the squad to Frankfurt and past connected to Cologne for the remaining games against Denmark and Slovenia.
The 29 twelvemonth aged twins volition eat, slumber and navigator successful a 2014 Fiat Ducato van that Will has spent £12,000 fixing up into a top-of-the-range camper van, nicknamed affectionately 'Mary'.
Football instrumentality Will Robey has spent a twelvemonth converting an aged enactment van into a luxury motorhome
He has spent an estimated £12,000 to make the instrumentality mobile which present comes implicit with a treble bed, kitchenette - and large surface projector to travel each 51 games astatine the Euros successful Germany
The 29 twelvemonth aged twins volition eat, slumber and navigator successful a 2014 Fiat Ducato van that Will has spent £12,000 fixing up into a top-of-the-range camper van, nicknamed affectionately 'Mary'
The conveyance is besides equipped with a descend with blistery h2o and a fridge to support each the brew cool
The conveyance is besides equipped with a descend with blistery h2o and a fridge to support each the brew cool.
Salesman-turned-social media influencer Will is keeping a video diary of his Euro 2024 adventure, and regular updates volition beryllium uploaded onto his Will's Whereabouts YouTube channel
He is close present connected the roadworthy to Germany successful his self-converted deluxe camper van successful clip to get for England's archetypal crippled connected Sunday evening.
Will told MailOnline: 'This is decidedly thing to transverse disconnected my bucket list.
'I've ne'er followed England distant successful a large tourney earlier fto unsocial camping retired on the mode successful a van but it's going to beryllium an unthinkable experience.
'Mary' is simply a 2014 Fiat Ducato that I person spent a twelvemonth and 12 expansive fixing up.
'It was a two-seater but I've managed to alteration it to a three-seater van to springiness america a spot much space. It's not immense but has each the carnal comforts you'd request to walk arsenic agelong arsenic a period connected the road.
The twins volition beryllium leaving aboriginal connected Saturday and travelling 360 miles to the metropolis of Gelsenkirchen, wherever England play their archetypal lucifer against Serbia the pursuing evening
Will believes this travel with her member is his astir ambitious yet
'Obviously however agelong we're retired successful Germany depends connected however good England do. I'm truly looking guardant to getting retired determination present due to the fact that there's going to beryllium a question of excitement washing implicit the full country.
'I've been moving level retired to get the van acceptable successful clip and it's been exhausting and stressful but that volition each beryllium forgotten astir erstwhile I'm connected the mode to Gelsenkirchen.'
Will has 285,000 subscribers from astir the satellite who tune into his Will's Whereabouts YouTube leafage to spot him converting aged vans into motorhomes and past utilizing the vehicles to spell connected camping trips astir Britain.
He took it up initially arsenic a hobby portion helium was moving successful income but aft the Covid pandemic helium turned his gathering projects into a vocation and started filming and uploading his enactment connected societal media.
He believes this travel is his astir ambitious yet and said: 'We've got to get to Calais connected Saturday greeting and past it's different six hours thrust connected to Gelsenkirchen. I'm not wholly definite what way we'll extremity up taking but it's astir 360-miles successful total. We'll get determination earlier Sunday with immoderate luck.
'Once we've recovered a spot to parkland up, we'll past spell and find a barroom oregon fan-zone to ticker the game. I'd similar to get a summons but the prices being offered are astronomical.
Salesman-turned-social media influencer Will is keeping a video diary of his Euro 2024 adventure, and regular updates volition beryllium uploaded onto his Will's Whereabouts YouTube channel
'There's a fridge to support the brew chill successful the van and a fan. But if the somesthesia drops astatine nighttime I've besides got heating to support warm.
'Plus there's a projector to ticker immoderate of the different games successful the tournament. It'll beryllium a location distant from home.'
Chelsea instrumentality Will and Fulham protagonist Ed volition beryllium joined astatine 1 constituent successful the travel by Ed's woman Florencia.
Will added: 'It's going to beryllium a choky compression anyway, kipping adjacent to Ed connected a treble mattress but erstwhile Florencia meets america retired there, I'll astir apt person to slumber connected the level adjacent to the bed.
'She's from Argentina primitively and I deliberation she's pledged her allegiance to Italy astatine Euro2024. If England and Italy bash someway conscionable again successful the tournament, I anticipation we fare amended than the last 3 years ago. Otherwise, we're successful for an awkward night!'
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