Our halfway trip festivities (read our last entry) were a little saddened by the fact that our car decided to come alive once more. We only saw one cockroach this time but considering that we were sleeping in the back of the station wagon it was still one too many. Hence, after taking off from the shogrounds camping area in Kempsey we drove to the nearest Woolworth's and bought some more insecticide. Afterwards we spent some time in Kempsey's shopping center usin...

I mentioned in our last post that our campground in Coffs Harbour (right next to the showgrounds but a separate private ground anyway) was the nicest we'd been on so far. It was mostly true. However, after posting the statement they wronged us by kicking us out of their warm indoor common area at 10.45 p.m. and by limiting the use of the free wifi to just 50 Mb of downloads. It ran out way before we were done and it was cold out there. Other than that it really w...

We'd spent a night on Alstonville Showgrounds which happened to be just next door to the local library that had free wifi. Sadly it didn't open until 9.30 so we had to stick around even though it was raining. Sini bought a couple of books there for 50 cents each. After we finally got on the road we started south on the A1 which is a continuation of the M1 in Queensland. Only in QSL the motorway had been twelve lanes wide at points, while in New South Wales it was...

Towards Noosa Heads After having spent two nights in the lovely town of Maleny trying to rid our station wagon of unnecessary bugs we were ready to move on again. We headed north towards Montville and continued northeast on small tourist routes which were very scenic. We had a fairly late start and didn't reach Noosa Heads until after two p.m. After a quick stop at the town's tourist information center we drove to the entrance of the Noosa national park where ...

This might be just me, but… don't you just hate drinking wine out of something other than a wine glass? We enjoy our wines, we're by no means any sort of experts on them, but we drink them fairly regularly at home. So far the times we've had wine on this trip have been few and far between, but even so, a question has risen: how to drink this elegantly? We have two cups with us, foldable plastic ones that we use while brushing our teeth. Any liquids drunk from t...