Month: September 2019
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Return to Melbourne
Are we starting to make a tradition?! Last year, we decided to take the train from Sydney to Melbourne. Very tired after limited amount of sleep we rolled into Melbourne on the 24.9.2018. This year we were more refreshed, arriving by plane to Melbourne. But still the same day. And now, we are rather tired. […]
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Anniversary
Yesterday marks our 5 years anniversary as a couple! Half a decade! And just look now much we’ve done, how much we’ve traveled, which is one of our big passions we share. What did we do to celebrate this milestone? We spent some 7 hours (including breaks) in our van, driving a bit over 500 […]
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Vanlife
We’re temporary back to vanlife again. After 8 nights of having the comforts of separate rooms for sleeping, eating and… hygienic things, we’re back to our box on wheels. Everything’s so different. I really thought last week was the last time we’d sleep and live in the van, but with no luck of selling it […]
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Roadside Assistance
Today, our campervan sales took an interesting turn. This is mostly reconstructed by what Petri has told me. We took the campervan to Ellerslie Car Fair, one of Auckland’s biggest car fairs. We set it up, all was well. I was going for an appointment, and a friend of ours joined to keep Petri company. […]
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Sales status
Unfortunately I have reached a gap in the posting. And I will blame all of this on our current situation of trying to sell our van. Which is not going as well as we hoped. Yesterday, Thursday, we were supposed to have 3 viewings of the van. One couple cancelled on Wednesday because they found […]
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Electrical Warrant of Fitness
If you have a campervan that can connect to a camping grounds electrical network, you also need a electrical warrant of fitness, or EWoF for short. This ensures that your fuses are working and your safe to connect. Otherwise you can hurt the camp grounds network. Our van’s EWoF was valid until 6.10.2019. And we […]
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Warrant of Fitness
As planned, we went in for the van’s Warrant of Fitness (WoF, Sv; Besiktning, Fi; Katsastus) today. All vans from 1999 and earlier, needs to be checked every 6 months. The WoF can be done by car garages, some car dealers and a nationwide company, VTNZ (Vehicle Testing New Zealand) who have their biggest task […]
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State Highway 1
Our trip through New Zealand’s State Highway 1, from Cape Reinga in the North to Bluff in the South. It took us 11 months!
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Selling our campervan
The time has come to sell our van, and it’s a bit emotional as we come to love it so much.
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