Back in October, we were so pleased to find an AWESOME deal on a flight back to Belgium. We are supposed to take a Jetstar flight to a stopover in Bali for 10 days, and then a flight back via Bangkok straight to Brussels. Included in our plan was a stay in a fancy hotel,…
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There are times in life when you’re faced with the following situation: You’re staying at a hotel/motel (Holiday Inn…) that has a communal BBQ/hotplate for guests to use. You only have basic cooking gear with you, like salt/pepper, knives, forks and plastic plates (for example, because you left all the other stuff with your wife…
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Purple Swamphens are AWESOME! They look like the baby of an actual dinosaur and a funky turkey. They can swim, fly, and run like Forrest Gump! When they eat, they grab their food with their incredibly long toes, and tear off pieces like proper velociraptors. The one we had with us all afternoon, didn’t mind…
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Since some unexpected costs cut into our travel budget, we went looking for free campsites. In the past, we haven’t had much luck with these. Either there are millions of flies and mozzies, or there’s too much wind, or it’s too hard to get the tent pegs in, or all of the above… However, it…
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In de reeks “koken voor trippers”, een nieuwe variant op de dashboardbroodjes: kofferpizza! We zijn er achter gekomen dat, mits voldoende zon, onze auto ook andere plaatsen heeft waar eten kan worden opgewarmd. Voor restjes pizza is de koffer bijvoorbeeld ideaal. Volgende keer, met de feestdagen in het vooruitzicht: achterbank-glühwein!
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“Honey, I’m stuck at the racecourse… No, really!”, it sounds like a lame excuse a gambling addict might say, but in our case, it was actually true! After our small trip to Silverton and the Living Desert, we were heading into Broken Hill for a nice dinner, since we were saving so much cash by…
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It hardly ever rains in Silverton, an old outback silver mining town, now populated exclusively by artists, pub staff, and donkeys. It also served as the backdrop for many iconic Australian movies, the most famous of which was Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Of course we brought the Belgian weather-gods with us, and visited…
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Vaak zijn de goedkoopste plaatsen om te kamperen in outback Australië publieke plaatsen die maar een paar dagen per jaar gebruikt worden, zoals showgrounds, cricket ovals, en racecourses. Zo kan de gemeente de kosten wat drukken, en hebben reizigers een unieke en goedkope plaats om te overnachten. Een echte win-win situatie dus! Een nachtje kamperen…
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Sommige mensen gaan het misschien niet geloven, maar wij doen soms ook wel eens iets cultureel (niet alleen café cultuur ;-)). Een aanrader in Broken Hill zijn de kunstwerken in de “Living Desert”. Deze 12 zandstenen werken van verschillende beeldhouwers van overal ter wereld, kronen een heuvel in een mooi stukje outback en zijn zeer…
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Claudia got me an awesome gift for my birthday: a Coober Pedy golf membership! You might ask: “why on Earth would you want a membership for a golf course with no grass, 500km into the Australian outback?” Well, it has an awesome backstory! Apparently, a couple of opal miners had a bit too much to…
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