We went on holiday to tiny crumbling shack & drank river water to survive… it was rough but we didn’t spend a penny

A COUPLE who spent the nighttime successful a derelict shack with nary plumbing were forced to portion h2o from a section stream to survive.

But the duo were treated to lush views of the Welsh countryside during their overnight enactment astatine Grwyne Fawr.

"For this twelvemonth 2023 I've decided to situation myself and enactment successful each bothy successful Wales this summer," adventurer Heitor Visuals wrote connected the video's caption.

"And however amended mode to commencement than by spending the nighttime astatine the smallest bothy successful the UK - Grwyne Fawr."

After walking done agrarian woodland and crossed rolling hills, the hikers arrived astatine the mould-infested shack.

The cramped two-storey abstraction is stocked with immoderate necessities - including tinned meals, tools, loo rotation and a stove for cooking meals.

A bothy is simply a basal shelter, usually near unlocked and disposable for anyone to usage escaped of charge.

The bulk of bothies are repurposed structures with histories of offering respite successful isolated locations: crofters’ homes, shepherds’ huts, distant farmsteads.

Located astatine the bottommost of a heavy ravine, Grwyne Fawr is casual to overlook.

And getting to the gathering from the main way portion wearing a dense battalion takes cautious footwork.

As acheronian descended, the mates fired up the stove to navigator their respective dinners - a hearty vessel of penne pasta with food condiment and Uncle Ben's Mexican Style atom with a tin of chilli con carne slopped connected top.

They besides sourced h2o from the bone-chilling stream located adjacent to Grwyne Fawr.

The pursuing morning, the 2 tucked into an all-day meal sachet washed down with a piping blistery cupful of beverage earlier heading home.

SANDS NICE

Meanwhile, Brits tin inactive bask a summertime staycation, with galore formation huts present having kitchens and bathrooms inside.

But immoderate adjacent fto you enactment overnight - with beds squeezed wrong too.

Similar to glamping, galore huts person been kitted retired with everything you mightiness request for an overnight stay.

And immoderate outgo arsenic small arsenic £49 a time - compared to the mean terms of buying a formation hut of astir £123k.

For example, Beach Hut 409 on Mudeford Split is close connected the beach, with 4 beds inside.

This is on with a kitchen, implicit with fridge and cooker, arsenic good arsenic outdoor ablution and portaloo.

Or determination is Sea Angel Vintage Beach Chalet in Cornwall, which sleeps 4 arsenic good acknowledgment to a treble furniture and bunk bed.

Previous guests adjacent said determination was a "bottle of bubbly and chocolates waiting for them" connected arrival.

The cheapest enactment is staying astatine Branksome Chine in Dorset, which costs little than £50 a night.