The Camper Van Adventures.. Chapter 3.. 'Please keep your arms, legs and plugs inside the van at all times...' We were due a disaster- one week since 'the day we drove miles and got no where' and things had been going too smoothly. Lodge decided to liven things up a bit and somehow managed to close the side door with one endof our power lead hanging out...About 3km down the road- we were on our way to Byron Bay at this point- we finally got the hint from people a...

The Camper Van Adventures..Chapter 2.. Neil Diamond ruined my lifeDay two in the van had echoes of day one... Unable to find the campsite, got on the motorway in the wrong direction etc... But in comparison it was a great success. We found ourselves pitching up and camping out for the first time in a place called 'The Entrance' just north of Sydney.We'd spent the day driving around the Blue Mountains National Park and seeing some of its famous sites before ...

The Camper Van Adventures.. Chapter 1.. The Lonely Planet Lies To quote the Lonely Planet "the opportunities for camping in national parks and more comfortable camping in private camping grounds is abundant, and you'll be hard pressed not to find either on a nightly basis"..well, we proved them wrong !! It was a strange 24 hours for us, from our last night in Sydney to our first night in our camper van (or what was meant to be our first night in...

From 'Flashpackers' to dorm rooms.. Sydney We touched down in Sydney a little worse for wear and not wanting to do anything but get to our room and go to bed... Only problem was in Sydney it was just our room, this was our first hostel/dorm room experience. What a day to be submerged into the world of bunk beds, cockroaches and naked French men! We were staying in Stratton Hostel in a 6-bed mixed dorm, which according to Lodge, looked and smelt like Matthew's b...