Buandik Campground

Just after uploading our last blog update, we met up again with Manu and Marie. We had seperated in Canberra, as they wanted to drive the Great Ocean Road, while we were psyched for the Grampians bouldering and hurried down through the inland. We did buy a lot of groceries, since the climbing area is …

Grampians

We’re just back to civilisation from the Grampians National Park. The closest town is Horsham which is about a hour drive away. 70km on a paved road plus 10km on a really bad dirtroad. On the campground where all the climbers stay there are restrooms, a rainwatertank and fireplaces, but that’s it. You can’t grab …

Blue Mountains, Sydney and Canberra

We finished our time in the Blue Mountains with some nice last climbs up to 27. I was able to Flash „Wrong Movement“, 27 while Jochen had big success on his longterm project „Alpa Leather“, 32. He had tried it a lot on his last trip to the Blue Mountains about seven years ago, and …

Sydney

The trip to Sydney was awesome! We had a beautiful and cool climbing day in The Balkans, one of Sydney’s bigger and older Bouldering Areas. We met up with our friends Steve, Joe and their daugther Tara, which we had met a few weeks ago in the Blue Mountains. I had visited this area 5 …

Blue Mountains

A few days ago Jochen, Miri and Paula arrived in Blackheath. Hey had flewn into Sydney on April 24th and spend a couple days in Sydney in search for a van as well. After final success they are proud owners of a Kia Pregio, 2004, 270000km with was a little cheaper then ours but in …

Australia

The next morning we took another bus to Sydney Central Station where we had an appointment for buying a van. At around 12am we were owners of a Mazda E2000, the same car we already owned in New Zealand, only 10 years younger and 100.000km less driven. In general the car was well maintained and …

Business with vans

Selling a car at the end of the backpackers season in New Zealand is no fun! We were quiet dissapointed by the Auckland Backpackers Carmarket. We expected a place, just like the Backpackers Car Market in Christchurch: A place were you can park for a couple of days and try to sell your vehicel to …

North Island

We arrived in Wellington at our friends place without any problems, besides evening traffic … We could use some real laundromats again, which are always rare if you travel in a van.   After some discussion with Toby, Carina presented us a sightseeing plan for the next day: Start walking at their apartment in Haitaitai, …

Golden Bay

Am 24.03. erwarteten wir meinen Bruder Jochen mitsamt Frau Miriam und Kind Paula am Flughafen von Christchurch. Die drei hatten einen guten, aber langen Flug hinter sich und sahen entsprechend müde aus. Wir hatten extra ein paar Meat Pies mitgebracht und während die Mädels am Flughafen warteten, fuhr ich Jochen in die Innenstadt, um den …

Golden Bay

After a long drive we arrived at Golden Bay, the northern end of New Zealands South Island. Especially Katinka was tired, since she was still recovering from beeing sick, so we just got a quick shower at the climbers campground called Hangdog, cooked some dinner and went straight to bed. The next morning we glanced …