Service with a smile

May 21, 2019 Itching for Hitching

2015 A rocky start to a Western Victoria tour As we head along Eastlink tollway we remark that the car feels like it is dragging the caravan and we don’t normally notice much difference when the van is on. It is then that we see the electric braking system flashing a warning. As we’d only had the van serviced three weeks earlier we turn off the tollway to the service centre in Dandenong. Yes, they tell us the brakes are locked on and the problem is not theirs but with the braking system and that would have to be checked … Continue reading Service with a smile

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An apology

May 21, 2019 Itching for Hitching

Will the real Anderson Plug please stand up! Yes, you guessed it the image on yesterday’s post was incorrect. The light plug shown would be a fat lot of good when it comes to powering your van. Continue reading An apology

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The A – Z of Caravan Gear

May 20, 2019May 21, 2019 Itching for Hitching

For those of you who are prospective caravanners this glossary may help in understanding the terminology, but not all readers are caravanners. May I suggest then, that it will certainly improve your trivia knowledge. Hang onto your hats – A … Continue reading The A – Z of Caravan Gear

Lighthouses, NSW2 Comments

Smoky Cape Light

May 19, 2019May 14, 2019 Itching for Hitching

Built in 1891, New South Wales highest lighthouse is situated on Smoky Cape between Hat Head to the south and Trial Bay and South West Rocks to the north. It’s a steep walk up from the carpark but the view … Continue reading Smoky Cape Light

Places, WA8 Comments

Stalks

May 18, 2019May 13, 2019 Itching for Hitching

Apr 2015, New Norcia Monastery, WA The monks of the monastery no longer bake their own bread for which they were once famous but they still grow their own wheat. Continue reading Stalks

Point of Interest, Qld6 Comments

Barolin Homestead

May 17, 2019May 13, 2019 Itching for Hitching

Jul 2018, Innes Park near Bundaberg, Qld Once a 12,000 acre station property in an area described by explorer and later its’ manager Nugent Wade Brown as “the most beautiful place in the world”, Barolin Homestead overlooks the Pacific Ocean. The current homestead was built by Sidney North Innes in 1912. A classic Queenslander design. Continue reading Barolin Homestead

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Donald, where’s your troosers?

May 16, 2019May 12, 2019 Itching for Hitching

What is it with these old farts and their undies? Once more over a long winter’s lunch in a cosy café by the fire another grey nomad bares his soul, yes, he tells us that when sleeping on the caravan he hangs his undies over the television cable! The television cable? “Oh” he says “but they hang so nicely there.” Continue reading Donald, where’s your troosers?

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Noosa and Tewantin

May 15, 2019May 12, 2019 Itching for Hitching

Jul 2017, Sunshine Coast, Qld Tewantin is agreeable to the eye with plenty of trees and people in a hurry. But then this is the town that drives the holiday resort town of Noosa Heads. Tewantin is the business end with solid old Queenslanders, wandering gardens. Accountants, lawyers and supermarkets. Noosa is the pretty face with luxury homes, sparkling white apartment blocks and hotels of gleaming glass, fronting a small but lovely stretch of sand contained by the National Park and the Noosa River. Dress shops and restaurants, canals and crowds. Something must feed this hungry monolith and it’s Tewantin. … Continue reading Noosa and Tewantin

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Watching the weather

May 14, 2019May 10, 2019 Itching for Hitching

‘Keeping a weather eye out’ is a must when caravanning. You are more exposed to the elements and often in unfamiliar weather patterns and conditions. Caravanners from Victoria and South Australia tend to be more conditioned to bushfires than they are to tropical cyclones. In Melbourne it’s simple, the weather comes from the west. We watch Perth and we know that we’ll get the same thing but a little milder in a couple of days and we’ll get Adelaide’s weather tomorrow. On the east coast it seems to come from every direction leaving us totally confused about what to expect. … Continue reading Watching the weather

NSW, Point of Interest11 Comments

Put another log on the fire

May 13, 2019May 10, 2019 Itching for Hitching

Albury, NSW Fancy yourself as a baker but haven’t got a wood fired oven? Then imagine how lucky the good folks of Albury are, the city council has built them a fabulous oven and pavilion in the Hovell Tree Park down by the Murray River just for community use. Every second weekend the oven is fired up for locals to cook their breads, pizzas or roasts while an Oven Co-Ordinator watches over the oven itself. The Albury City provides details on their website. What a great idea that would be for a family get together. Smoky and warm crusty pizza … Continue reading Put another log on the fire

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a light hearted look at caravanning through the eyes of a couple of grey nomads.

Month: May 2019