Our Australia trip

With the weather down the coast still cold and wet, we go north even higher. The landscape starts getting hillier. And we cross nice streams. Then we come to the camping with the impressive name Wannon Falls. The falls could have been nice if there was enough water to fall down it. At the current […]

On boxing day it’s time to say goodbye. The campground that we stayed on will be swamped today with campers, about a 1,000 people in total and probably one third of that on the foreshore. I’m sure that there’s enough space as the sites are very big but good luck to them with only 2 […]

We seem to have reached the point where travel becomes a drudge. Getting up with the knowledge that you have to pack up, get ready and be on the road gets to the dogs and us. So we’re going to look for a nice place to stay. Marjo has done research and there’s a foreshore […]

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year. Love from Marjo Axel Nossi Dotti

We say goodbye to Lake Albert and leave with some kangaroo meat for the dogs that we get from the friendly camper who arrived there in 1984 and never left. We follow the road along the Coorong and uhm and ah whether to call into the naturist camping along this road. We’re not new to […]

After breakfast and packing up we take the dogs for a walk and meet Thomas, our very friendly neighbour-for-a-night from Germany who is traveling Australia by himself using his thumb (hitch hiking), friends and their van’s and now his bike. He’s having a good time and gives us one of his apples. In return we […]

Today a busy day. We are planning to visit the Dutch shop office in Aldinga to pick up our Dutch specialties order and to go back to Colin for our kite. The first update that morning is good, the Australia Post tracking system informs us that the kite has arrived at the post office in […]

Without a kite we can’t really move on, so we decide to make a loop down the Fleurieu Peninsula and hope for kite arrival at Colin’s on Monday. The Peninsula is not big so two days should be enough. We decide to play the tourist and stop along the way. Our first stop is at […]

Today is Adelaide day. We pack up and take the road down the hills to Adelaide. First we drive to Elizabeth (suburb of Adelaide) and struggle through Saturday pre-Christmas shopping to buy some oil for the planned service at the Clarsen’s residence. Colin Clarsen has generously suggested that instead of paying someone else we could […]

We say goodbye to Kapunda in style. By now the temperature has dropped from 39 to 22 Celsius and rain is in the air. After Kapunda we entered the Barossa valley proper and that is clearly noticeable with the sheer number of wineries and vineyards. The route past the main wineries is lined with palm […]