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After living in Shanghai for 50 years a Chinese man decides to move to Australia.He buys a small piece of land near Mt Isa.A few days after moving in, the friendly Aussie neighbour decides to go across and welcome the new guy to the region.He goes next door but on his way up the drive-way he sees...

Have any travellers who have built a shed on a residential block obtained insurance for the shed without building a house.There seems to be a problem with this

Hi everyone,have a problem with my CD/RADIO,works fine on 12v but when I plug into 240v in caravan parks it stops working,I have a house battery with a BC-00-15A converter,any clues to the problem ?

Bloody hell, I followed advise from my computer guru son in law to load up windows 10 and now my touch screen is untouchable.... Any help I try within win10 sends me to far away places all unconcerned with touch screen issues, when I do get to a site that may have the answer, I have to perform major surgery o...

Yep! The subject heading says it all -well mostly. For some crazy reason our Dometic toilet has started overflowing the waste tank onto the floor of the van leaving a rather smelly mess when we reach our destination. The tank need not be even as high as half full or even on rough road to overflow. The main...

Has anyone left their caravan at the Gregory Downs Hotel to go into Lawn Hill. Looking at going to Lawn Hill next year and do not want to take the caravan in. Also the road condition into Lawn Hill? Any information would be appreciated. Bruce

Saw this link on another forum, sounds like it is only for WA though: http://www.campingwa.net/Default.aspx?tabid=40

Hello fellow nomads I have bought a toyota campervan and am looking for advise on which tv antenna to buy. I am about to buy a 19" tv/dvd player from Kogan and will be mainly in city areas and also some out of the way sites between cities. Also there was a fridge fitted but it did not come with one only an...

Hi all I have been missing a bit as I had a health scare and with no symptoms, just a slightly higher liver count picked up in a routine blood test it was discovered I had a massive growth on my left kidney. After a couple of weeks of stress and several scans it was discovered that only the kidney was involved...

http://www.abc.net.au/health/features/stories/2015/05/26/4242783.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-13/quiz-vitamins-and-other-nutrients/6847350

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-13/quiz-vitamins-and-other-nutrients/6847350

Hi everyone i have just been advised by Woody & Sue that the Tech section is a place to maybe get some info Has any one used an Ark battery pak to power their portable fridge/freezer when they are free camping ( my portable fridge is an Evacool 60 ltr compressor fridge ) and if so how long did the battery...

Bushfire ADVICE for Great Northern Highway, east of Roebuck Plains Roadhouse and west of Colourstone, in the Shire of BroomeMonday 12 October 2015 - 10:35 AM BUSHFIRE BEHAVIOUR: The bushfire is contained but not under control. There is active fire within containment lines on the southern edge of...

The following link is to a website for Collyn Rivers books. I am told this guy is the go to person for info on all sorts of subjects to do with Caravans/RV's Solar etc. Looks like a good place to find out about all sorts of subjects. Since it is a link to a webpage the copyright aspect should be OK. http:/...

Gday... Cheers - John

Gday... This topic has been bandied around on a couple of other threads recently. I thought I would put this information in one new thread for those who may have missed the discussions that have meandered around within other topics. Again, this could quite probably have been in Technies' Corner, but...

My wife and I are 100% new to caravans and have just purchased our first rig - I pick up on Friday a 2007 Senator Bailey Louisiana Series 5 and a 2011 diesel AWD Ford Territory. My home is in Broome, but this rig is being purchased in Perth and will be used initially in and around Perth. Any tips from you expe...