Caravanning around Australia – the best way to test if you had a heavy vehicle and were surrounded by desert suitable for dumping a body….would your spouse make it back? Wait, no. Caravanning around Australia – the best way to spend your retirement travelling on budget. That’s what I meant. For sure. So you and […]
The First Timer’s Guide to The Great Australian Road Trip
There is little as quintessentially Australian as hooking up the caravan and going on a road trip to explore the great outdoors. Admittedly, it can take weeks of meticulous planning and packing, but once that’s taken care of, you can embrace the freedom to go wherever you please! No wonder so many of us embrace […]
So You Want to Caravan Around Australia. Tips on planning, packing for and organising your caravan trip
Around four years ago, my husband took me out for a drink one night, and he had big news to impart. I was concerned that his news could be that he was ill, or had decided to leave our marriage or change careers. However it was none of the above. He said: “So you want […]
Reflections on being grey nomads; retirees travelling Australia in a caravan
Becoming grey nomads is a popular retirement activity, but was it for us we wondered? A guest post by Estelle from What’s on Watsons. We retired in 2016. For us as a couple, retirement has been a massive period of change. Not only have we retired we have closed a business, sold our family home, […]