When it comes to auxiliary battery solutions, we’ve had a few options in the TJ over the years. We’ve always been fairly strong supporters of Redarc products and it makes total sense. They’re Australian made and stand up to the conditions of this arid and rugged land we call home. We started with an SBI12 […]
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Our drive from Tavira to Benagil required an approach focussed around eating up some time as we had to check out by 12 pm and we can’t check in at our Benagil apartment until 4 pm. Given that the drive was only an hour or so, we decided to have lunch somewhere on the way.
One of the handiest gadgets you can have while travelling in a group of 2 or more is a Mobile Hotspot. People often ask me if they think it’s worth it, considering they have their mobile phone with them and they can tether via this. My answer is generally one of ease. Tethered connections generally
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Our journey to Tavira started with our departing San Sebastian/Donostia. We’d arranged an airport transfer to pick us up from the hotel and drop us directly to Bilbao Airport. I’d arranged the transfer through an app called “BlackLane”. I’d never used them before but felt somewhat reassured when a driver was allocated to our trip
We kicked off our first full day in San Sebastian/Donostia with a walk along the beaches that stretch quite a long way from where we’re staying, to the old town. This walk, however, wasn’t one for exercise. This is the beginning of 2 solid days of Pintxo crawling. As mentioned previously, Pintxos is like a
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The drive from Lekeitio to San Sebastian/Donostia was along the northern coastline of Spain, looking out to the Bay of Biscay. This was a lovely drive along a winding road. It would have been the perfect ride on a motorbike but was also enjoyable in the Beemer. We avoided the highways on the way into
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Today we depart La Guardia for Lekeitio which is in the north of Spain on the coast, about 60k’s west of San Sebastian. Kath picked this little fishing village out of a number of possible places to stay up here due to the size of the town, then lack of traditional overseas tourists and the
We pick things up as we drive into La Guardia. This little village on top of a hill is one of those quaint little places that is both forgotten in time and modern all at the same time. The walls of the buildings look like they were erected just last week however some of them
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Our journey around Spain begins in Barcelona where we’ve booked into the Yurbban Trafalgar Hotel, which is in a perfect location for walking and seeing some of the main sights of Barcelona. For dinner tonight we managed to get a 20 minute slot at Bar Del Pla, which is highly recommended as having great local
Our journey through Spain begins with our flights from Brisbane to Barcelona. In preparing for this trip we decided that we really wanted to fly on an Airbus A380, mostly because we hadn’t done this before. We were using our Qantas Frequent Flyer points for our flights and as we wanted to fly Business class,
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You know it’s getting close when you start going through all your camera gear/toys. A few last minute purchases being some new GoPro batteries for the ageing Hero 3 and a charging adapter for 3 batteries, and a couple of SanDisk Ultra UHS high-speed micro SD cards as backups for the GoPro and the DJI
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Departing Hamilton Station and heading towards the kick-off point of our Simpson Desert crossing was exciting for all concerned. We knew that we had one more night of being surrounded by some level of amenity before we were really and truly on our own for a few nights in one of the most remote places in
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Waking up the morning after seeing Lake Eyre from the sky to hear the patter of rain drops on our cabin roof made for an uneasy start to the day. Knowing that it only takes a wayward incontinent dingo to close a track in these parts, we were worried that we’d be stuck at William
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Winter 2016 was a great year to head to the Simpson Desert. While some people experienced road closures, as we did for part of our trip, we were lucky enough that we were able to get out into the centre and were able to witness what can only be described as a once in a
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Today we start our trek west again onto the Oodnadatta track arriving at William Creek tonight for a two night stay where ,in the morning, we will take a flight over Lake Eyre. The drive to William Creek is one of the better stretches of the overall track however aside from this there is actually quite
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While spending 3 nights at Arkaroola was nice, we had to move on. Unfortunately our travelling companion Dave decided to leave us at this point, so from here on, there is just the 4 vehicles. Our next stop was at Marree, which is the start of the Oodnadatta track. However we have a bit to
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We booked in for the Ridge Top Tour run by the team at Arkaroola. This trip is highly recommended by many people in reviews so it would be a shame to miss out. We weren’t really sure what to expect, although the video’s online give you a bit of an idea. The trip is held
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After a major change to our itinerary, we have arrived at Arkaroola as per our schedule. Originally we planned to head west to Innamincka, and then down to Arkaroola, however the weather had other ideas and we ended up having to head South from St George, and then west via Broken Hill, up through the
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We departed our accommodation, Warrawong, just east of Wilcannia on our way to South Australia, but not before Dave caught some fresh water lobbies in the creek for breakfast!! We’re not entirely sure where we will end up tonight, but again, that’s all a part of the adventure. After a quick fuel stop in Wilcannia,
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Who we’re finally heading west after our long detour to the south. Leaving Warren at 8am, we headed towards Broken Hill on a chilling 1 degree morning. We stopped in Nyngan for some fuel and dad managed to pick up some gluten free snacks. He also had to remove a bird from the roof rack
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