Feel the Breeze family

Patreon ONLY update 006 | Splash day

Hello beautiful family,

Yesterday we launched the Perfect Sense back into the water after almost 11 months on the hard, with her new teak deck, dark blue hull color and black Finsulate Antifouling she is a real head turner again.

It was such a special feeling to see her back in the water again and yes she is floating and no seawater coming in. Because the keel was off all the time she was on the hard the whole technical team of the boatyard was present to check and double check ev...

Corona can't stop us | Travel Family Vlog | Feel the Breeze family | Se.1 Ep.17

Hello beautiful family,

Hope you are all doing well. What a week, the Perfect Sense got out of the hangar for the first time since 8 months, we are over the moon. And this video is full of adventures. We got stuck in Montenegro, did a detour via Serbia and Bulgaria and got in some nasty situations.

This morning I (Gerben) woke up and thought it was Tuesday, there is so much going on, getting the Perfect Sense up and running, making deals with brands while I got my business power b...

Patreon ONLY update 005 | Outside the hangar

Whoop whoop and she is out of the hangar. After 8 months the Perfect Sense felt some direct sunshine again and she is almost ready to splash into the water. Hope you are all doing well. Much love!

Broken LandRover Oyster Time | Travel Family Vlog | Feel the Breeze family|Se.1 Ep.16

Hey guys,

When the LandRover broke down in the South of Croatia we got stuck in a village known of the best oysters in the world and the village even has a Chinese wall. Can you believe it?

Hope you are doing all well. Our workflow is getting up to full speed, this video was ready last Wednesday and we changed the format a bit. We decided to speed up a little bit so we are not that far behind from reality. Yes reality, our reality at the moment is living in a small apartment nea...

Patreon ONLY update 004 New Teakdeck update

We are are over the moon, this is such a huge step. We had to change the teak deck and now after 8 months it’s finally there. One of the best feelings.

This is what we just did, 1 hour before the start of the court case and for us it’s the best preparation we could wish for. Very grateful!

Patreon ONLY - update 003

Hi All,

Just an update from us from the boatyard regarding the progress of the Perfect Sense, how we feel and send you some gratitude for being with us in this adventure of a lifetime.

Besides that we are on wave of producing. When Benjamin is asleep Rianne is working on our website and future revenue streams. When you have time we would love to invite you to have a look.

We hope you are all doing well, thanks for your support and Feel the Breeze.

Much love,

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Croatian 5 star hotel - Defender Road Trip | Travel Family Vlog | Feel the Breeze family | Se.1 Ep.15

Friday evening Feeling the Breeze ;) No showering in a lake or river this time. We got invited by a 5 start hotel to spend three nights and we said yes to it. We treated ourselves with all the luxury and realised again real luxury is freedom for us and not three pools and a cabana. But we enjoyed it very much and Gerben even experienced a spiritual journey during a massage, hmmmm, not sure what to think about that exactly ;) 

We stayed in the first 5 star hotel of Croatia, quite an...

Croatian coast - Defender Road Trip | Travel Family Vlog | Feel the Breeze family | Se.1 Ep.14

Friday evening Feeling the Breeze ;) This week was a bit more relaxed regarding this video. The video was ready on Wednesday, we did some small tinkering and here we are... 

Are you ready for a drive along the breathtaking coastline of Croatia?

We found an amazing spot where we spent two nights and we met a Dutch guy with his Toyota LandCruiser on his way back to Amsterdam, he drove already 75.000 kilometres to Nepal and India and never stopped at the same place twice. Except...

Mediterranean Sea - Defender Road Trip | Travel Family Vlog | Feel the Breeze family | Se.1 Ep.13

We made it! Friday evening it is, it was a close finish to get this episode ready in time. It is really like running a startup..... We love it, the spirit is getting high and we had an interesting week with some lows.

We published the second part of our Blog "how do they do it" and realised it still impacted us what happened. It took us b...

SCARY night - Defender Road Trip | Travel Family Vlog | Feel the Breeze family | Se.1 Ep.12

Thursday is still too ambitious.... sorry guys. What do you think about Friday evening? A good start of the weekend. Our editor Pedro is back from his holiday and guess what, he proposed to his lady on Formentera and she said Yes. Formentera is the island just above Ibiza and last year we spent at least a month over there and it's called the Caribbean of Europe. 

In this episode we are driving from Austria to Hungary, visit the Balaton lake, saw the lavender fields and had our firs...

Patreon ONLY update 002

Just an update before the weekend starts, we are at the Perfect Sense after our trip towards Istanbul and just wanted to give you a quick update about the current status of replacing the teak deck. Have a lovely weekend.

Much love,

Rianne, Gerben & Benjamin

STUCK in the clouds | Travel Family Vlog | Feel the Breeze family | Se.1 Ep.11

t's that time again -  o noo it's Friday already.... Sorry guys, we have to get use to our new routine of posting every week. One day later as planned. 

In this episode we are still in Austria, we explore the Altaussee, Vienna and prepare ourselves for the first real border crossing towards Hungary or Slovenia. In the meantime we finally meet Sebastian, the owner of the lodge and the house in Vienna we stayed in. He and Gerben met on Instagram several years ago, he is int...

HOME In Austria & Off Road Defender| Family Travel Vlog | Feel the Breeze family | Se.1 Ep.10

It's that time again - early access to our newest video (and we are uploading on a weekly basis from now on!). Really happy with this milestone. For us this is the proof our founding team is working well together. We run Feel the Breeze as a startup.

Austria it is, a beautiful lodge, a rescue mission and a slippery muddy off-road mountain experience all in one episode....definitely meditation time ;)

Hope you are all doing amazing!

We are good, working on the boat and she is...

Crossing Germany LAND ROVER road trip | family travel vlog | Feel the Breeze family | Se.1 Ep.9

Hi family,

We have a new video for you.

The second one on the road and the dream life doesn’t look like a dream life at that moment. But we made the best out of it and decided to just cross Germany towards Austria….

And Rianne did such an amazing job with planning a great route….but the weather forecast was bad for a couple of days and the borders with Austria just opened up, so we decided to go for it.

That is the upside of having no fixed plan :) 2020-08-06 11:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Patron ONLY exclusive video - we are at the Perfect Sense!!!!

Hi family,

We made to Didim and the Perfect Sense. We weren’t that active lately sorry guys but really appreciate it that you are still here.

Just a quick video of the Perfect Sense and the big jobs that need to be done.

The upcoming weeks we will upload more of these short films to take you through our process of refitting the boat - we will give extra insights and why we made certain decisions. 

And of course some update from Benjamin as well.

The adventure begins ROAD TRIP to Turkey | Se.1 Ep.8

We arrived last week in Turkey and saw our home the Perfect Sense again after 8 months.  Eventually this is the only reason we started with this road trip because the flights got cancelled in March. We are glad we made all the way in a safe and sound condition. What a trip and now the first episode on the road for you. Watch how we set up camp, get involved in the Defender community and what an ordinary stop at the supermarket brings in life. 

So what a better way to start tha...

Final preparations ROAD TRIP to Turkey | family travel vlog | Feel the Breeze family | Se.1 Ep.7

We are now in Montenegro and it feels like we have been traveling for months - but it is only one month and we are half way!!! 

So what better way to start than with the video of our final preparations and finally after this video we can take you with us with all our adventures and explorations, here is Episode 07. Hope you like it - and we have a special Patron show casing in this episode ;) And any suggestions for the thumbnail....???

Our last days in the Netherlands, fina...

Weekly update 002: Lilly broke down

Dear family,

We have a challenging situation and we need your help!

We are struggling how we should call you, Patrons, FtB family members, Breezers or Friends, so what do you beautiful people prefer? We love to hear.

At the moment we are in the South of Croatia and stranded in a lovely city called Mile Ston because Lilly broke down. Luckily they have the best Oysters in the world over here, fresh from the sea and there is a Medieval wall like the Chinese wall around the corn...

Finally Road Mapping

Whoop whoop! It’s the sound of the police. Germany here we come. We are almost ready to start our road trip towards our beloved sailing home in Turkey.

Lilly is almost fully prepared, just some cosmetics and an interior project and then we are ready to roll. Rianne is so excited she even forget to wear pants and for the first time we are saying goodbye to friends and family.

After some good ice cream and limoncello we can’t wait to actually leave and start our new life and go ...

Weekly update 001

Hi amazing people!!!

We are so grateful that you are our first patrons!!! You are making our video’s possible!!! And yes we are getting used to vlogging more every month….still aren’t there where we would like to be and would really appreciate your feedback. We try to take you guys with us on our adventures, but sometimes we just forget to film or we think it wouldn’t be interesting for you to see…so when you miss something in our video’s or if you are curious and have a que...

From sailor boy to farmer boy?

Dear Feel the Breeze family,

It's Tuesday and time for a new video for you, our Patrons. We can say Patrons because the family is growing. Whoop whoop! Also thanks to you we can make this all happen.

This one is about Benjamin's first sail in the Netherlands! Will he be a sailor boy or farmer boy? 

We are  still stuck in the Netherlands but we do try to make a party everyday - nobody said living your dream would be easy ;) Follow us this week in finally preparing...

CROSSED the border & left Lilly behind | family travel vlog | feel the breeze family | Se.1 Ep.4

Dear FtB family, 

Early access time! 

Our fourth vlog is live! Hope you are doing well and you can benefit from all the lifting Corona restrictions. We are still stuck in the Netherlands but we did crossing borders during Corona. We try to keep adventure and exploring lifestyle in our daily lives, just to keep us positive and to keep having our travel family vlog feeling.  

With Lilly - our ...

Total Loss Land Rover | health test | still stuck in NL

Dear FtB Family,

Early access coming up!

Our third vlog, as the borders behind Germany are still closed for us, we entertain ourselves in "Twente" in the Netherlands and are still living in the apartment or our roof tent at the parents of Gerben.

At least this gives us some extra preparation time before our road trip with the LandRover will start, we expect to leave within 10 days from now. We can’t...