Clip from an upcoming video... We were shooting in Rome, and I wanted to show you inside an anime clothing store called Friking. Except a group of influencers came in and knocked it out of the park instead. I went over and said Hi like a complete Dad. Negative Aura, according to my kids.
We went out to see the Trevi Fountain in our evening in Rome. This is what it's like, plus a suggestion for where to eat out afterwards: We really enjoyed the Comodo Restaurant which is really close to the Trevi Fountain.
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hello welcome back to the channel where we try new things to make your family happy and tonight we're sharing this with you it's a night out at the Trevi fountain in Rome Italy uh we just thought we'd share some sights and sounds and maybe some food as well afterwards but this is how the evening goes down [Music]
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I feel like I should explain I'm dressed like this because we did plan to have a a day out at the beach and it went wrong we missed the bus so we took the bus in the opposite direction came sorry we came we came to the here uh the Trevi fountain we we walked past the president's Palace that was very Grand and it's beautiful sunset so this just out I was just about to shoot a piece to camera but you're right his thighs are quite impressive so this is the um presidential Palace with for the president of Italy but I just what's going on with those um statues above the entrance there it looks like they got some kind of satellite dish on their heads I don't think it's a Halo is it oh well uh we're going to get to the Trevi Fountain now Trevor which I think is this way the Trevor Fountain we you think is this way oh man what a great View
so the advice from all the YouTubers is go go in the evening go when it's quieter go you see the fountains in the evening and and uh well thank you YouTube I think everyone's taken your advice but this is the Trevi fountain [Music] [Applause]
[Music] we got a prime pitch um but unfortunately it's one of those fountains that we've not seen anywhere finally we found one and it's up up up mommy's skirt looks like
it's why is it okay the shoes have come off and this is a this is a pretty original experience isn't it paddling near the Trevi Fountain not meant to you're not meant to stay
you that is the one of the most beautiful things in the world and here's one of the other most peaceful things in the world
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yeah oh just here
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so we're in kodo which is like really close to the Trevi Fountain and uh they have a pasta station Sushi Station you see the bar behind me and obviously Pizza the the the greatest thing of all though is that just over my shoulder are Mario and Luigi so this must be a good place they say you know if a restaurant is full of Italians it must be a good Italian restaurant for this this this Mario and Luigi he gave you a thumbs [Music] up oh recognize these you want to see the dishes okay here are the dishes we've got uh chicken ramen from the Sushi Station we have another chicken ramen and then what did you go for Salad and Coke okay salmon salmon salad yeah in salate cucumber avocado salmon teriyaki marinade aami Mar I'm not sure Pi cabbage oh really and I went for the um suaki salmon which looks absolutely delicious ious nice bit of rice there oh can't wait and some ginger oh should I break into it here we go oh yeah look at that oh yes oh my
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We have never travelled as a family on a budget airline flight... so come join us fly with Wizz Air from London Gatwick to Rome Fiumicino Airport, Italy. I'm nervous that we'll get stopped for our tickets, or passports, or boarding passes, or baggage allowance, or carry-on hand luggage... or get charged more at the checkin desk or departure gate. We review our experiences on this Italian journey with the kids!
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Hello, I'm Neil and... does traveling with your family on a budget airline fill you with dread?
Me too!
Uh, you suddenly become responsible for... even more responsible for everyone's lives and thousands of pounds worth of tickets and hotel accommodation.
And I'm an ADHD dad, so having to get my head around exact things for the tickets, weights of baggage, dates on your passport, boarding passes, being in the right place at the right time is...
It's not fun!
The new thing we are trying to make your family happy is traveling with my family on a budget airline without getting kicked off, turned back, or charged extra money.
We're going to Rome for 5 days.
It was booked literally last minute on lastminute.com and overcame so many hurdles.
We had the wrong names on the tickets.
We had a passport that was expired and had to do a last-minute dash to the passport office in London.
But we got through all of that, and now we're at the airport, and oh, my heart is just sinking because I think I've followed all the baggage rules.
We’re all carrying rucksacks which are well over the size that is stated quite clearly on the Wizz Air website, but I knew in my heart that they would cram under the seats, and I didn't know if that counted.
At the last minute—I think on the night before—I paid for priority baggage, which means that you could carry a big bag, and I just had that as an insurance policy just in case one of our bags was over, or we couldn't do the hand luggage thing.
I'm glad I did it, but I don't think we needed to do it.
Everyone has a pretty much a rucksack on their back, and the night before we stood on the scales holding our cases to try and work out how much the cases weighed.
They were just under the magic 10 kg; I think one of them was 9.9. But at every stage of this journey, something could go wrong—at the check-in desk, or the gate, or the security to the gate—so come with us in real time and we'll take you along on our little journey for the first time traveling as a family on a budget airline.
Wizz Air!
I... I don't know why I'm nervous because we've done everything that we thought we should do. Got the passport. I still feel like they can say, “No, you've done a thing wrong, and that's it—you can't go!”
So we... so we checked in our baggage, and we literally have no idea what we're supposed to do now.
I think we’ve just got to find signs for departures.
Uh, managed to get this on priority because I paid for priority for one person, and my... and my bag is small enough, um... I get to hand-carry it and also got my CPAP machine.
I can just hand-carry that. It’s... it's really low fuss.
Uh, I think we’re up here, guys!
I’ll tell you what we have got to do: we’ve got to empty our water bottles.
I don't know if we can do that here.
Okay, this bottle is emptied.
Time to go through.
There’s a water bottle.
“Oh no, it’s back again.”
Can you put that inside of my bag, Stella?
So now we’ve got to bag everything up.
Okay, so I got busted, uh, because I took the case... I thought the case was going to go in the hold of the plane, and uh, it wasn't, so it's hand-carry. Completely forgot I've got a can of deodorant in there.
Got busted... taken aside, and the deodorant's destroyed. So, uh, these guys have got to smell me for the next 5 days now.
But that was good; we got off lightly.
I think, uh, we managed... we managed to get airside!
Didn't think it would happen.
Hey, this Duty-Free aisle goes on forever.
It doesn’t stop.
I couldn't afford and didn't bother buying tickets for a first-class lounge, so this is our first-class lounge.
“They’re carrying all your stuff for you.”
Okay, this is the upstairs, and uh, there's lots of expensive food places. Ooh, JD Sports.
I just want somewhere we can sit down.
“There.”
Where?
Okay, so it's 0920.
We’ve got about 40 minutes, so we've decided to, uh, have breakfast in the Wetherspoons.
This is a small vegetarian breakfast. Oh, sorry, that's a large breakfast.
And that's the small... that's the small veggie breakfast... that's the large veggie breakfast.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I just thought—Ooh, there’s more!
We’ve got, uh, muffins and hash browns as well.
Wow, that looks amazing.
That looks really good.
“Wait, I’ll get some ketchup.”
We just wanted somewhere to sit for 40 minutes... and the other great thing about here is they've got a water tap, so there's a hydration station to fill the water bottles back up again if you've, uh, complied with the security instructions.
But here's a little tip—near the coffee station, there's a water tap over there, and you can fill your water bottles up.
The hydration station, which is next to the toilets—um, there's a queue for it to fill water bottles, so it's quite handy to fill it here.
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So it's still recording when it goes black?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, I've got to learn some Duolingo.
I've got an hour.
So our gate number has come up on the screen, so it’s gate number two, so let's try and find gate number two!
We didn't realize how crucial the boarding passes would be, and luckily, just by chance, I’ve WhatsApp’ed them to everyone.
“It’s estimated to be on stand in the next 10 to 15 minutes. We are going to continue pre-boarding into the area behind us, so once the cabin crew have arrived on the aircraft, the doors will be released for boarding. Thank you.”
Okay, here's a tip: wish we had done.
Had to download—add the boarding passes on WhatsApp—but to open it, you’ve got to... you need a signal.
So screen grab your boarding pass.
It seems really obvious now, but we didn't know that, so you screenshot it, then it's in your camera roll, and you don't have to download it every time it's checked.
I had a bit of an almost near miss at the gate.
They said I had too much baggage.
It’s because they were looking at the wrong boarding pass.
This is the toilet on Wizz Air.
So I'm going to take a Wizz in a Wizz Air toilet.
360° view.
I don’t think I can get it all in on the camera, but you get the idea.
I think apart from this... just the general stress of traveling on a budget airline:
We really liked traveling with Wizz Air.
The... the plane was new... uh, the seats were clean.
The check-in was light touch—you know, you hear these horror stories about people being turned away from gates and... and getting interrogated...
We didn't have any of that, so it was a really pleasant experience traveling with Wizz Air.
The plane was super delayed, but I think that was more to do with the weather over Europe rather than much to do with Wizz Air, and look, we're... we're on holiday, so we don't really care that much about running to a timetable.
Just getting past security and being on a plane felt like a golden opportunity to feel blessed.
We did it! We're here!
So now we got to wait for the bus.
We’re a bit late.
I think there was a storm over Europe, so we're about an hour late, but I don't care because that was brilliant.
Airbus. It was an Airbus A321 Neo.
Okay, so, um, we're kind of standing here for a bit.
Hey, this looks good.
This looks like it might be an airport bus.
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Joe! It’s like Speed!
Speed?
That is the most Italian thing I’ve seen. A Fiat waiting for an Italian airline.
Okay, so we're in baggage reclaim, and uh, I think we might be here for a while.
Oh yeah, so we join the official taxi queue and it’s... it goes all the way over there.
So this is the start of the queue—or the end of the queue—and it looks like there are dudes here who regulate it, which is comforting.
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I am calling this a Dad Delivers success!
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Grazie Mille! And YouTube knows you want to be watching this next. Can you please help my daddy get 10,000 subscribers? Just click on his face. Thanks, bye!
Behind the scenes from an upcoming video... I'm trying to create an epic intro shot for the channel, using my family as location crew in the Rome Colosseum (is there any other?) It doesn't quite go to plan until...
This is a weird little video: I've snapped. And starting to build LEGO CITY train tracks all round my Happy Hut Garden Office. I lay down and assemble the first railroad tracks for the first run of our Lego City Cargo Train. Casper the Cockerspaniel isn't too impressed but will I manage to get the Powered Up hub to pair and controller to work...
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Hello, welcome back to the Happy Hut, and uh... I... I don't know if I should even be sharing this. I don't think I'm even going to upload this video, so we'll see how this goes.
But, uh, coming to the hut, and I'll show you—I'll show you the mess that I've made on the floor. Let me just turn the extra light on so you can see it properly. I've got so much work on at the moment, and instead, I've decided to devote my attention to this.
Um, I don't know what's happened, but I've... I've... I've gone a bit Lego trains around the floor of the hut. And I could pretend that I'm doing this for the kids, even doing it with the kids. I think my son's going to help me with this, but this... this... this is all me to start with.
So we've got so much Lego, and we've got a bit of Lego City train track. I don't know, I think I was just sitting at the desk, and I just thought, "I'll just give it a go." I think I've been thinking about it for years.
So I've got it running by the front door, which I thought would have been a problem, but the great thing, obviously, with Lego track is you can stand on it, and it might break, but it's a bit more rugged than any other railway system.
And, uh, it's just a demonstration that it—that it works. And, um, I thought, "What if... what if I just run it around the floor? Just have a little loop?" I don't have enough track for that yet.
If I show you underneath—I don't know if it might be too dark—this, by the way, I was going to film it, but it was too... too embarrassing. I just pulled out all the junk that I've been hoarding under this bench for about five years.
All my childhood stuff. Not—not the Lego, just everything else. So that's all gone into the garage, and this could be the start of a little top-secret layout that I can cover up when it's not being used and when I should be doing more work.
So I've only got this far, up to there, and now I'm going to have to clear all of this junk. And I did a big, big clear-out of the corner there—you can probably see it in the background of some of my videos. We've got Casper's dog bed in the foreground, but I've got some microphone stands and stationery and stuff there.
And now I've got to work out a way for it to somehow go behind, under, or around the Ikea armchair. I've got a nice clear run there.
And then, the bit I'm most concerned about—because this is when I should be doing work—but I don't know, it's just really nice to have some... something that takes your mind off the world.
Right, this is basically a midlife meltdown. A complete... you get it. But I thought I'd capture it on camera. If I didn't get the clear-out, at least I'd get driving the first stake.
So this is a bit like the, um, the railroad—the railroad barons of the 1800s—driving their first stake.
Um, I'm going to—I'm going to pin the track down, because the great thing with the Lego track is that it has these holes at frequent intervals. I don't need to nail the whole thing down, and I will be moving things around as well, but at least I can help stop it wobbling when it gets kicked by myself or Casper.
I think I'm going to have this switch here—we call them points in the UK. Well... see, that's the problem. As soon as you touch it, it just goes out of alignment.
Um, but you can—I can flip the switch there, and it was—it was underneath there, but I think I really want to maximize the space underneath there. So I've got the points a little bit early here.
Um, but let's—let's nail this in.
This—oh my goodness—am I going to upload this video? I've got so much that I should be doing right now. I don't know why my... my brain is kind of flipping out, but it is.
I just... there's something really pleasing about this, and I'll give you—at the end of the video, as a treat—I’ll give you a bit of a run, because I've managed to rig it up to my phone, and I'll... I'll show you how good this could be for—for the kids.
I'm going to do it for the family, obviously.
I've got a very, very small panel pin. I thought it'd be too small, but it looks like it's just the right size, and it's just—it's just to lightly hold it in place.
Anyway, there we go. Let the record show.
Now, it does wobble around a bit, that's okay. It's just to roughly hold it in place so it doesn't go flying across the room on the main door here for the—for the Happy Hut. And I could cover it up with tiles, could even cover it up with wood when it's not being used.
So I've got some wood here. I'm wondering... what if I made a bridge? And this is—this is where—this is where it all starts to fall apart—my life.
What if I put a bridge? And it—it could be really removable. Really removable? It's either removable or not removable. This will be removable, and I can just plonk it in place when I want to run a train on the top deck, and then I'll have two tiers of loops.
I've only got one train. The other train's in the garage, in bits. I'll show you that in the next video—if I make another video. We've got the world's largest tub of Lego. There's so much in there.
Uh, but that's for another time.
Let's put down the next pin, and I'm sharing this just so you can... can live vicariously through this. You'd have turned off by now if you weren't into Lego trains, so you're among friends.
Thank you! Say hi in the comments—be great to hear from you.
Right, so I'll put this one here. I'm going to use a bigger one, I think, for this one, just to experiment. But I didn’t want to make huge holes in the floor of the hut. Shall I pin it? I'll—I’ll use the pin. Don't want to hit the track, because it's really expensive.
Yeah, what I'm trying to do, I suppose, is like the equivalent of HS2 in the UK. I've got to somehow find a way through, and bizarrely, I think it will be easier to do the raised section first. I think that might be quicker than trying to clear the floor and find a path through.
It's time for the inaugural run!
I've got my remote control here—powered up remote control. I'm going to run the train around this. Let me just show you the geography, though.
There—that—that's the bench that I think I'm going to have the big station in, where all the trains will go. And then they're completely out of sight until I need to use them.
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And, uh... there's the—there's the train. We're going to try and pair it up with the—with the remote.
So, I'll hold down the button there, wait for it to go purple... There we go. Is that paired? That doesn't look like it's paired.
Look, it's going to be more sensible if I do this out in the open instead of crawling under the bench. So, um... and I need to put the camera down because I think for it to work, I need to press both the green button on top of the train and the green button on the controller hub.
No, that's the controller, isn't it? The hub's in the train.
Um, I hold them down at the same time.
So here goes. They've both gone purple.
So if I let go—yay! It's gone green! Fantastic!
So I'll do a little run-up. So I'll take the train backwards... oh my goodness, here it goes!
So, other than the test—oh, there's Casper. Come have a look!
He's not a big fan of the Lego train, because I did a test run the other day, you know, just a very short one—you didn't miss anything.
So this will be the very first proper run on camera. Here we go.
I'll just press the plus button...
Oh, I think it's hitting the plug back there. So I've got to—I've got to clear everything. Keep it away from skirting board level.
