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Catching up on sleep
So our past week have been rather intense, and very WiFi limited, and therefore the blog have been quite quiet. We arrived back in New Zealand yesterday morning, after a night of barley any sleep on the flights back here. We managed to get ourselves back to our van. It was a bittersweet moment. To […]
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Writing challenge
Next plans
Yeah yeah, you’ve now read almost full 3 weeks of our relaxing plans. What’s next? When will we stop posting holiday pictures on our instagrams? Unfortunately, our life is still very open and unplanned. But I’ll let you in on the plans we do have. We have another half a week left in Bali, and […]
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New Zealand
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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New Zealand
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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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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New Zealand
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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