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21/12/2018

Dreadful time; Cleaning and selling the caravan

G'day mates,

Well, this is it! It's time for the hardest part, unpack, cleaning and at last selling our little house on wheels.

Can you imagine how much rubbish people can gather in ten years time? It was really amazing what came out of that little caravan. Luckily we could do all these things at my aunties home but that house is not big as well so all our stuff was packed everywhere.

We started with removing my blog...... 😢😢


We had several washing baskets; one for the op shop, one for throw away stuff, one for sending to The Netherlands, one for still keeping.


Paperwork had to be sorted out as well......


stuff everywhere....


It wasn't only a dreadful time, we also had very good times; in between we of course also had to eat and now we had room enough to do some decent cooking...


In the outside bar we had a nice setup for our BBQ and electric cooking plate and hubby could make his own beer again, you can see it brewing behind is back....


And I had my birthday so I got spoiled as well with bubbles......


having a nice visitor on my birthday....


 a great dinner!


and a nice bottle of wine.....


OK, back to the caravan....

And then Mitch, he was our travel mate for all these years and we didn't know what to do with him, he has been sitting in all washing baskets, except of course the throwing away one. Then I asked my friends on Facebook for help and most people said we should take him with us to The Netherlands....


and now he is already on its way, he might be there earlier then we!


it goes on and on, the unpacking.....


and the cleaning.....
I did the inside of the cleaning.....


and Fred did the outside.....
You could see the caravan was getting whiter and whiter...


After four weeks, YES you read it well, it took four weeks to get the job done, he is ready for selling so I made some pictures, just a few on my blog.....





The caravan was ready to use as we left a lot of essentials in it...... 


Especially things you need for free camp!


We advertised on Facebook in several groups, on marketplace and Gumtree. Next day we had 5 couples who were interested and the third couple bought it!

Our little house on wheels was given a name immediately and then I knew it would be in good hands, it's a she now by the way and her name is; Jolene!

We had to organise a gas certificate and two safety certificates which we did during the week and Jolene was picked up a week later....


The weekend they would pick up Jolene was very bad weather, it was pouring with rain, the sky and I were crying.....


There she goes....



I was inconsolable for a few hours, heartbroken, grief stricken, name it all.
And now that I'm writing this I have to cry again!


And that wasn't all, in the mean time we sold out of the car;

Battery Charger 


The UHF radio


Our Freezer Waeco


Fred's hobby but.... most probably he brewed enough for us to last till we leave this beautiful Country...


And last but not least, our pride and joy; 

Our Baby Q


And every time someone picks up what we sold it hurts.....



Lets look at it the other way now and be positive;

A lot of people are happy we are coming back!

The people who bought our little house on wheels are very happy with it!
And for us a beautiful home is waiting!


With the money we've got from all the stuff we sold, we are now having a holiday in New Zealand!!
(so you can expect more adventures in the near future)


Hubby doesn't have to brew anymore as in The Netherlands, our favourite Belgian Beer is waiting for us again....


My tears are gone, my positive end helped!

I won't be back before Christmas dear fans and even maybe not this year.
 There is just one more story to come about the surrounding on the Gold Coast before I go to New Zealand and believe me, you will enjoy that as the land is stunning! 
(of course the Gold Coast as well 😊😊)

For now Fred and I say;


Cheers!

08/12/2018

The last days with our little house on wheels!

G'day Mates,

As you read the title you can imagine this is very hard for me to write but I have no choice, its a fact. Anyway, we are glad with our house in the Netherlands and that's what we have to think about.

You know, I think the thing we will miss the most will be the time in the bush, for different reasons as Hubby will miss just being there, surrounded by wildlife, birds etc, relaxing and reading books, I will miss the hard work; digging for gold and more..... finding it!!!

Having said this, we of course still wanted to do that one more time so from Caboolture we drove to Bony Mountain which is close to Talgai and Durikai State Forest. I know I said in my last story we went to Beachmere but that was after Bony Mountain. We stayed on a sports ground and that was a great spot!


As you can see it was pretty cool there, one night we had 5 degrees below zero, luckily we had an electric blanket brrrrr. There was a big layer of ice on our grey water bucket. 


During the day the weather was fine, kangaroos every where ....


One day our friend Warren came to go prospecting together, that was very nice, we just didn't have much luck!


No pictures of me digging this time, you have seen enough of them! This is a different story! Hubby decided to take advantage of the spare time in the bush to already take out the UHF radio as we wanted to sell it, so he started to do that and was hanging half in and out of the car when the car decided to complain and drove off. Most probably he must have touched the gear lever.

I was about 100 meter away doing my thing when I heard a bang which sounded like a gunshot. I looked around and then towards the car and saw Hubby walking somewhere near it so I didn't thing any of it. When my batteries where flat I walked back to the car to get new ones and saw that it wasn't at the same spot and asked Hubby why he moved it. He said; "I didn't, he moved himself!"
  
Then I saw some small trees flat on the ground, half torn and the car parked against a bigger tree.


Luckily it could still drive but much more important, when I heard the story what happened, is that Fred (hubby) could just get his legs away from underneath the car otherwise the back wheels would have drove over them!

My God!!


OK, lets go to something nicer! Beachmere!
Beachmere is a small lovely town on the way to Bribie Island. Unfortunately there is not much of a beach but for that you can go to Bribie Island which we have done a few times....





We also had a nice lunch in Sandstone at Spinnaker seafood market, just before the bridge...


Fish and Chips , Jammie...


The Caravan Park was great and fully packed.....


On the 20th of August we celebrated our ownership of the house in the Netherlands, we went to the Beachmere Hotel for a great, literal, meal....

Hubby decided to order the special



Of course it was much to much so we've got a doggiebag.....


A lovely drink on a nice spot before we continue our travel, one last few days on a very special place......


Paradise Country Farmstay!! A must do, specially when you have kids!


Look at the view we had on our great site....



Broken wheel bearing, happened approx. 20 k's before we arrived at the park, these last k's we nearly crept along the road, much to the nuisance of our fellow road users.


Now lets go to the park!!!!

This is what you can all do....


Milking Cows....


no, no, we didn't do that much!



Feeding sheep....



Demonstration of making Billy Tea and Damper


and tasting it....


a competition......


Horse against quad.......


More demonstrations.....


Jokes and throwing Boomerangs....


Working sheepdogs leading sheep into a cage....




Sheep Shearing....



Movie time:






Looking at fluffy Koala's...



and then......our last beer in front of the caravan.....


our last night in our, (for always in our hart), little house on wheels.....


Cheers!