4 Quick Tips for Keeping Your Caravan Clutter Free

Clutter Free

If like us, you are living in your caravan full time, you will know the daily challenge of keeping your caravan clutter free and tidy. Given that it is such a small space, it doesn’t take long for it to look cluttered and messy if you have lots of ‘stuff’ sitting around. Having a minimalist …

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Top 10 Best Tips for Cleaning Your Caravan

Tips for Cleaning Your Caravan

When you are busy exploring or travelling sometimes those cleaning jobs don’t get done as often as they should. So on top of basic daily cleaning, we try and give our van a really thorough clean every couple of months. So here are a few tips for cleaning your caravan that work for us. Just …

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Caravanning in Winter – How to Stay Warm

caravanning in winter

Living in our caravan full-time means dealing with all weather conditions. Unfortunately, we can’t always follow the sun! And as we have discovered it can be a bit of a challenge to keep the van warm, especially in the middle of winter. Caravans are nowhere near as well insulated as a house so the cold …

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Caravan Park Membership – Which One Is The Best?

best caravan park membership

At some point when you start travelling around Australia, you may want or need to stay in a caravan park. Caravan Parks in Australia come in all shapes and sizes. Many of these caravan parks belong to a chain or network of caravan parks and offer Caravan Park Membership. This means they can offer you …

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How to Make Your Caravan Feel Like a Home

Bed

If like us, you live in your caravan full time, you will still want it to feel like a home. But in such a small space that can be a challenge. You have to be careful not to add to much or it will start to feel cluttered. Or you will find yourself constantly moving …

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What to Check Before Towing a Caravan

On the Road

IMAGINE THIS… You’ve packed the car. The caravan is all hooked up and you’re ready to go. You jump in your car and start heading off down the road. As you get up to speed you hear a noise and the car behind you starts tooting its horn and flashing its lights. You quickly pull …

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Why We Chose A NextGen Caravan

Why We Chose a NextGen Caravan

We have had quite a few people ask us why we chose a NextGen Caravans caravan. After months and months of research, we had not even heard of the NextGen range of vans, or even seen one in our travels. We literally stumbled over them at the South East Queensland Caravan and Camping Show in …

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Tips For Picking up a New Caravan

Tips for picking up a new caravan

So you’ve just bought a brand new caravan. You might have spent months researching your purchase and perhaps a few months waiting for it to be built and delivered. But finally the wait is over and your brand new van is ready to be picked up. How exciting! Having just gone through this ourselves, we …

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What is Good Caravan Park and Camp Ground Etiquette?

Caravan Park and Camp Ground Etiquette

Travelling Australia in a caravan is no longer just the domain of  ‘Grey Nomads’. So the often hotly debated question of What is good Caravan Park and Camp Ground Etiquette frequently arises. There are now a whole range of people travelling for a variety of reasons. Families with two, three, four kids or more, couples …

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Free Camping – 7 Tips for First Timers

Free Camping Bethungra Dam

Free camping in all states of Australia is definitely possible. There’s no disputing the fact that we all love a bargain. If we can find one and camping for free is one of the best bargains when you are travelling Australia. Perhaps this is the reason why Free Camping Australia has become so popular. There …

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What We’ve Learnt in Our First Weeks of Caravanning

our first weeks of caravanning

In the last few weeks we have been making the transition to caravanning. We have road tested a couple of different vans so far and we already know that we love ‘van life’. So I thought I would share our thoughts with you on what we’ve learnt in our first weeks of caravanning. LIFE IS …

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