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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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New Zealand
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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New Zealand
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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Peparation
When you can’t tick the box “I’m healthy”
If you, like Petri, belong to the group of people who don’t have a diagnosis of a chronical condition nor take medication on a daily/regular basis, then you’re all set and congratulations! Personally I have asthma. I’ve been diagnosed with it for over 10 years and traveling without medication is not something for me. This […]
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Writing challenge
Coffee addition
For the past 6 years, give or take, I’ve had a cup of coffee at least once a day. Usually in the morning. But as a nurse working 3 shifts, the general rule is within 1 hours from waking up. General rule; the sooner after waking up, the better. I prefer mornings, because then “it’s […]
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Trusting a stranger with your phone
Tonight something rather odd happened. The camping ground we are at has both space for camper vans like us and motel rooms for people who don’t have a home on wheels. So tonight when we were watching a series on Netflix, our curtain was open. And a dude comes to our door on the asking […]
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New Zealand
Last week’s in New Zealand
What we have left to do in New Zealand, and what our plans are afterwards.
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Language of the blog
För att läsa detta inlägg på svenska, klicka här.Lukeaksesi tämän julkaisun suomeksi, klikkaa tästä. We have been discussing language of the blog, off and on. The problem is that we, our family and friends, have different native languages. Petri is a native Finnish speaker. I am a native Swedish speaker. Through our studies and voluntary […]
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Travel
A Leap of faith
Quite exactly a year ago, my friend Sarath visited Queenstown New Zealand, with the surrounding area. And sent a video of him bungy jumping in a WhatsApp chat. CRAZY! My first thought wasn’t really thoughts, more a semi-terrified tremor in arms and legs while hands and feet went cold. But then also admiration. Such bravery […]
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