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Winter lights in Sydney and the Singapore Layover

1 day until we come home, 1 year, 1 month and 12 days since selling up. David Jones recording. We had a fun-packed final night in Sydney. I don't know whether they were pleased that we were leaving or sad to see us go, but they had lit up the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Tropical Queensland - bye, bye Oz...

Just 4 days until we come home, 1 year, 1 month and 8 days since selling up. David Jones recording. Bye, bye Oz! We're coming to the end of our journey. We've spent the last ten days exploring tropical Queensland, interspersed with looking at the internet for jobs and looking... Continue reading

Posted Jun 4, 2011 at Earth 2010

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In the Outback - Alice Springs and Uluru

Only 15 days until we're home, 1 year and 28 days since selling up. David Jones recording. If you've been an avid follower of this blog you won't be surprised to hear that our ventures into the Outback have not involved any tents, camping stoves or dodgy dunnies. We've had... Continue reading

Posted May 24, 2011 at Earth 2010

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The Great Ocean Road and the Victorian Goldfields

19 days until we're back home, 1 year and 24 days since selling up. Paul Twocock recording. "Have you ever, ever felt like like this? Have strange things happened? Are you going round the twist?" Remember that? Cracking Aussie kids drama/comedy in the early nineties about the Twist family who... Continue reading

Posted May 20, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Chilly Melbourne and animal antics in Phillip Island

20 days until we come home, 1 year and 23 days since selling up. Paul Twocock recording. I am recording today because David has picked up an Australian accent after just two weeks and I can't trust him not to spray this with 'G'days', 'good on yers' and other phrases... Continue reading

Posted May 19, 2011 at Earth 2010

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31 days until we come home, one year and 12 days since selling up. David Jones recording. Sydney is such a wonderful place, especially after the relative isolation of the islands in French Polynesia. We stayed in a wonderful trendy apartment facing one of the many bays in Sydney Harbour.... Continue reading

Posted May 8, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Terrible Tikehau and the escape to Fantasy Island

41 days until we come home, 1 year and 2 days since selling up: David Jones recording. What do you do when you arrive somewhere and you know it's going to be hell? Pack up, get out of there? But what if it's a coral atoll in the middle of... Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Blow yer bucks in Bora Bora

46 days until we come home, 362 days since selling up. David Jones recording. Oh My! They do like to charge you a lot of money in Bora Bora… phew! But don’t worry folks hardened travellers like us have our little ways and means of making a 1000 francs go... Continue reading

Posted Apr 23, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Unspoilt Maupiti

51 days until we come home, 357 days since selling up. David Jones recording. Oh my God! We are tired, which sounds daft because we have not worked for a year, but actually travelling the seven seas can be pretty tiring. Living from a suitcase and moving on every few... Continue reading

Posted Apr 18, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Le Jeu de Polynesie - arrival in French Polynesia

58 days until we come home, 350 since selling up. David Jones recording. We have arrived in la belle French Polynesia. It is very beautiful and there are real French baguettes and croissants. Food at last! After spending a night in Tahiti we sailed to its little sister Moorea where... Continue reading

Posted Apr 11, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Dogs, fishes and cucumbers in the Cook Islands

64 days until we come home, 344 days since selling up. Paul Twocock recording. David’s busy playing scrabble so you have me reporting back today from Rarotonga, the main island in the Cook Islands. We’re in the middle of the South Pacific now and it’s just like you’d imagine it... Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2011 at Earth 2010

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333 days since selling up, 75 days until the grand return. Paul Twocock and David Jones recording. Fiji. Such an exotic sounding place: palm trees, white sand beaches, turquoise lagoons? Mmmn well there are palm trees, and white sand beaches on the outer islands apparently, but unfortunately our two week... Continue reading

Posted Mar 24, 2011 at Earth 2010

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From Kiki back to Auckland

Hi-de-hi campers! It's all over... we've returned Kiki to her owners and flown back to Auckland. So, 318 days since selling up, just 90 days until the grand return. Paul Twocock recording. It was sad to give Kiki back after two weeks together, though as we squeezed the last grey... Continue reading

Posted Mar 10, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 13

Hi-de-hi campers! This is the last night in the van, so we've had a quiet day today; just a short drive along the coast to Timaru. We completed our daily chores first thing this morning and arrived in Timaru early so we could have a lovely lunch at the Speight's... Continue reading

Posted Mar 7, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 12

Hi-de-hi campers! Wildlife watching today. Started off on the Otago peninsular near Dunedin. Saw a few Albatrosses, but declined the invitation to part with cash for a tour of Albatrosses (it's a large seagull, with a funny face - see the pic in the album). There are penguins on the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 7, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 11

Hi-de-hi campers! Today we walked all over Dunedin in search of the lost ancestors of the Twocock family. We were looking for the Browns of Dunedin, one of the first families to settle in the city in 1848; they were some of its founding fathers and mothers. Like most of... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 10

Hi-de-hi campers! A short blog today, three things to report. Number one: we've found out the secret to opening the fresh water tank cap. The secret is to unlock it! And that may sound silly, but for ten days when we thought it was locked it was unlocked (the cap... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 9

Hi-de-hi campers! Wow, what an amazing day - but before we tell you all about it, we have a confession to make. Yesterday we told you about the three Ws to make you a happy camper - well, it's true it is good to be ship-shape, but sometimes it's even... Continue reading

Posted Mar 4, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 8

Hi-de-hi campers! I'm going to let you into the secret of good campervanning, you always must remember a happy camper achieves the three Ws everyday. Here they are: a full tank of fresh Water, all the Waste emptied and all the Wee gone. Anyhow we achieved all three Ws this... Continue reading

Posted Mar 3, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 7

Hi-de-hi campers! Well we survived a windswept and rainy night at the rainforest retreat. Kiki shook like we were on the high seas. The good thing is we managed to successfully unscrew the fresh water cap and left the camp with a full load of water. And this time we... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 6

Hi-de-hi campers. Slight disaster today, for some reason we couldn’t get the cap off the fresh water tank. Luckily we’re still half full at the moment. We’re hoping when we try tomorrow it will work. Though we had a shaky start, things looked up as we headed for the Kaniere... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Days 4 and 5

Hi-de-hi campers! Two for the price of one today, we’re trying to catch-up so you get our adventures as they happen. After a lovely sunrise at our ocean side pitch in Kaikoura we drove up to the peninsula to look for seals, but only found one. The colony must be... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 3

Hi-de-hi campers! Another packed day driving along the highways of the South Island. We drove back to Picton from Nelson, this time along the Queen Charlotte scenic drive and discovered one wonderful bay after another. We arrived back in Picton and had lunch at our favourite restaurant, the deck of... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 2

Hi-de-hi campers! We left Picton bright and early after our first communal shower and set off on the road to Nelson (named after the famous Admiral). We rattled our way up and down windy mountain roads, and were a bit perturbed at the stream of water that kept zooming across... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2011 at Earth 2010

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Campervan Day 1

Hi-de-hi, everyone. We're happy campers now for the next two weeks, and we're going to bring you a day by day, blow by blow blog of our camping exploits in the South Island of New Zealand. The ferry slipped through the beautiful Queen Charlotte Sound on a bright sunny day.... Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2011 at Earth 2010

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