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Anyone not receive their pension this week? Aussie Paul.

Hello All We are looking forward to becomming Grey Nomads. Have just purchased a new van - New Age 16ft Little Joey Shower (to be delivered in October). Now have to purchase a suitable tug to pull it with. Have visited this forum for a couple of weeks now and have read some very handy and informative hin...

Hi, all I want to put a bull bar on the motor home been advised alloy is better being light weight, anyone know a reliable co. I could contact? I'm in Melbourne. -- Edited by Frangipani on Friday 4th of July 2014 11:29:39 AM

Hello GN Forummers We desperately need to replace the existing Queen (?) mattress in our Jayco Heritage (East/west) and we have been searching far and wide for a reliable supplier who can sell us one that has a pillow top, prefer a pocket spring instead of inner spring without any luck. Has anyone rec...

Just back home from an aborted trip to Queensland for the winter. Illness has caused us to cut it short and now we must sell our Coaster. Is there anywhere to place an advertisement on this site or can others suggest the best way to sell it? Happy travels you lucky people!

Dear Benefits Office Manager, My name is Mohammed Reza and I live in Birmingham. Many years ago, I married a widow who had an 18-year-old daughter.After the wedding, my father, a widower, came to visit and he fell in love with my step-daughter. My father eventually married her and as a result, my st...

Took me a little while to get here yesterday and stumbled upon this place out of necessarity, from being tired from driving for about 6 hours. A great little park at a little place called Murrurundi. It is about 28k further on from Scone on the New England Highway. NSW. CP, has large grassed sites, the lo...

Gday... 1862 - John McDouall Stuart discovers the Katherine River. John McDouall Stuart was a Scottish-born explorer who was determined to cross Australia from south to north. Stuart led a total of six expeditions into Australia's interior, with five of them being attempts to be the first t...

During the last week someone mentioned that they have a "truckers book" of some sort for rest stops. I have not been able to find it by searching as I can't remember any details of "key words". Anyone help please? Aussie Paul.

some where on the site, some one mentioned the Enchanted forest, and like most i never remember where thy said it was, from what i do remember its a drive not a walk any one shed some light please just that we are going to Vic and SA in Sep and if its close will go have a look, mind you it might be in Q thanks

Is there a trick to having an animated GIF as an avatar? I've seen a couple of animated avatars but my new avatar is only displaying a static image, which works as intended when loaded into Internet Explorer as a file, but not on the forum - either in IE or my usual browser, Firefox.

I am a new member hoping to get some feed back on a caravan I found on the caravancampingsales.com.au site, it's a 2012 Beyond The Hawksbury priced at $49,990. I looked up the companies web site, it's a very small outfit that hasn't been in the caravan building trade for long. The van ticks all the boxes f...

If the abolishment of the carbon is axed next week in the senate I wonder if the caravan parks will drop there rates? I say no

I was wondering if people in or around central vic would like to do something over a weekend, free camp preferable.... Cheers Terry

We went out for the day for a drive around to see some of the local sights and the first destination was Gropers Creek some 15kms from the camp through cane fields. Not an exciting destination with no shops except the kiosk in the Caravan Park. Surprisingly the park was crowded might be the school holida...

Hello Gang, hope to be seeing you all on the road soon!Now have all my ducks in a row- I will be returning to Australia (Brisbane) after many years away, in the second week in August. I've rented a campervan for 2 weeks and will be chasing a used self-contained motorhome to buy almost immediately for full...

An artical on the front page of the Bowen Independant wants to grab the nomads bucks by offering cheap camping despite objections from the C/P onwers, it's states that with all the nomads passing through they are missing out on this cash register. I will try and get a copy tomoz and post a link.

Joined 08:19 PM Jul 27, 2008 and I have just made Guru guess i don't say much but I sure read a lot and have found lots of imformation and places and other useful hints/tips from this site . Have not met many members but over the last couple of weeks that has changed and those I have met are an ok Bunch

Newbie here but I am going a bit grey, We are Robert and Cynthia McIntosh from Darwin. Our rig is a Nissan Patrol and a new Jayco Swan. Not to big setup but. All we need for the time being but I still have to go to work most days. I own Girraween Diesel Service in PINELANDS Darwin. Look us up in Darwin

Hi all, We have an oyster satellite system which recently had the upgrade done, we then purchased a Sat King set top box as we were told that some 18 months ago the satellite was changed. our problem is that we have travelled from Qld to Perth, and I have tried tuning in to pick up west Australia T V channel...