Holidays

Christmas in July

June 24, 2009

It’s nearly that time of year again. Can you believe it? I can’t. Christmas in July is a bit of fun, especially here in Australia. Our Christmases are usually hot and dusty. Not the ideal time to be enjoying traditional Christmas fare, although we still give it a pretty good go 🙂 Not only is […]

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The Expanda is Here

June 22, 2009

A little while ago I blogged about ordering our new caravan, a Jayco Expanda. We were very pleasantly surprised a couple of weeks back when we got a call to say it was ready to pick up – about three weeks earlier than expected 🙂 We took the super excited bunch down to the dealer […]

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Expanda – Our New Home Away From Home

April 22, 2009

Over the weekend we were fortunate to have a kid free day. We took full advantage and headed off to the local Jayco dealer to finally order our new caravan – an Expanda. We chose the Expanda because of its versatility. We essentially get a 24′ caravan that tows as a 16′ one, because of […]

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We’re Home!

October 15, 2008

Here we are back at home. Actually we’ve been home over a week now. It’s taken me this long to drag myself out of holiday mode. It didn’t help that The Thinker had an extra week off. It was very difficult to get myself motivated while I was watching him reading in the sun, heading […]

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Planning a Caravan Trip – Part 3 Keeping kids happy in the car

September 20, 2008

We have three kids – 7, 5 and 3. When we go on our holidays they sit together across the back seat of our car. After the novelty of going on holidays has worn off (as it is bound to do on a long trip), the bickering will start unless we have planned a few […]

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Planning a Caravan Holiday – Part 2

September 19, 2008

Image by The Journeyer via Flickr Today’s post is the second of three in a series on how we plan our caravan holidays (here’s Part 1). We try to get away whenever we can, whether it be a long weekend or a bigger trip over the school holidays. Here I cover how I organise what […]