Having touched down at Sydney airport in May, we completed our circuit of Australia some seven and a half months later. One of the items we inherited from the people we bought Ramsay from was a Santa hat. We've been carrying it around ever since even though it constantly gets in the way when I pack up the car. On Xmas Eve Katy insisted on having a photo taken of herself wearing it on the beach so we took the short walk from our campsite to Brighton beachfront. ...

We're in the South East corner of the country, pootling around the coast road. We crossed the border from Victoria into New South Wales and had earmarked three holiday towns to stop at and have a look round - Eden, Narooma and Batemans Bay. Eden is an old whaling station set on a picturesque bay. We took a walk along the beach road and also went to Benn Boyd National Park to see the cliff which is half red and half white sandstone. We stayed overnight at the a...

Sometimes when you travel around nothing seems to go right no matter how well you plan. At others, you manage to land on your feet even though you've done everything wrong. We left Swansea on the inland New England highway rather than the more scenic and coastal road because the recent storms had washed away parts of the latter route. It was pretty tedious and slow going for much of the way. We hardly seemed to crawl across the map, which was a big contrast t...

The day we picked up Ramsey and headed to a campsite in the Sydney suburbs was the day the weather changed for the worse. So there we were with a car full of unfamiliar camping equipment trying to erect a tent - a task neither of us have done before - and half way through it began to rain. Luckily the guy in the tent opposite us came back and lent a hand, among other things he turned our fly sheet the correct way round. As we lay in the small dome-style tent...

We had been pleasantly surprised in New Zealand at how easily we found our rented campervan, Blanche. We therefore arrived in Sydney wondering whether we would be able to repeat the trick. It was unreasonable to hope for another mere five-hour search, but perhaps we could do it in five days? Making it more difficult was the fact that we were buying rather than renting, and we wanted a 4x4 rather than the more plentiful estate cars and campers. On the plus sid...