It was back to the city for some fast van selling. We had 5 days to clean and sell the van and had only got interest from one potential buyer it looked like time was against us. As we were back a Chez Tony's we could park the van outside the house and finally hose the dead haddock smell out from under the wheel arches. We emptied the van of all our stuff onto the pavement and were just pondering how the hell we were going to reduce all of our "stuff" into a backpack sized package when the local bin men stopped to ask if all our stuff was rubbish for collection. In not so many words I told him that it was certainly not and what he was referring to as rubbish was all of our worldly possessions. Him and his mate found this quite amusing and the drove their truck of laughing as they went!
After we had cleaned, scrubbed, polished freshened, repacked, refreshened and strategically positioned an air freshener on the dash to cover up the faulty light Adolf was looking rather good. So we set of to met our potential buyer. He turned out to be a real stickler for detail and wanted to have the van checked over by a mechanic and that was only if he didn't buy a van at the next days car market so we left to re-flyer the hostels and get an early night to get up at dawn to head out for the market.
We turned up and got a good spot between a couple of vastly overpriced vans and waited for the buyers to turn up. Rather than buyers turning up in droves the car park started to fill with other people wanting to sell their vans. There must have been over 100 vans for sale and in the 3 hours that we sat there we watched hundreds of time wasters pass and only about 3 people who were seriously looking at buying.
Needless to say we didn't sell so with time running out it was time to advertise it online. After a few pointless time wasting questions over the next day we finally got a buyer who was a Kiwi of all things. $1500 for Adolf was not too bad and as he told us that he was going to use it to go off surfing at the weekend we were happy that Adolf was going to a good home.
Finally it was up to us to tie up few loose ends, have a few beers with Tony and head off to the next country… It was over the ditch to Australia for us.