Day 33: Moving to Windsor

Now, for those of you who know South Australia and Victoria, you might know that there is no Windsor nearby (except if you count the one in Perth, WA). So, what could we possibly mean?

Well, here is the thing. It is all very well to go to a caravan show to look around at lovely, shiny caravans, but quite another when all the family members fall in love with a Windsor one and want to investigate further...which is what we did. We managed to strike a very favourable deal and are soon to be the proud new owners of a brand new, limited edition, Windsor Genesis (705SE) caravan!

For those of you in the know, you would know that this is a good move. For those of you who don't have much interest in caravaning, you might be wondering what on earth we did that for, considering we already have a caravan. Quite honestly we would not have even considered doing something of this magnitude in the middle of our big trip, were it not for the fact that our present van is already starting to show disturbing signs of wear. There are about seven things on the 'oh dear' list already - and this after only four weeks of travelling. The Windsor vans have a better quality finish and a better reputation than our present make. Since sharing our news with the park managers here, they have shared the woes of many holiday makers who have vans made by the same company as our present one.

What particularly attracted us to this van is that the double bed is an island bed, contained within the van (as opposed to the push-out tent one we currently have). Also, the bathroom contains the normal shower, loo and basin, but each is separate from the other, as opposed to one on top of the other. There are triple bunks in this van too, so the bottom bunk can be used for storage (yesssssss) or the occasional friend of one of the boys coming camping with us in Tassie. As it is a special edition van, it comes with a number of extras that one would normally pay for. The nice caravan people are going to transfer our weight distribution bars and caravan move controller over to the new van for us.

So, we have an interesting change-over day ahead of us. Tuesday is the day, but we are waiting to have confirmation of that. It will involve moving all the stuff out of this van, into that one, after the van people have detailed the van and moved the bars and controller across. We are yet to be told how this is all going to happen.

After the initial shock of such an on-the-spot decision, we are thrilled by our choice and very excited at the coming change-over. Callum and Andrew are also very pleased (they were doing the 'can we get it, can we get it?' act at the show) and consequently have been very relaxed and undemanding at our two days at the park, not doing very much at all. We have had to wait around to receive confirmation of finances, etc, etc and so couldn't stray far from our laptop and printer, so that we could finalise these things as expeditiously as possible. This was all done today, which is why we can now share our news...

The only other exciting thing today is that Callum got stung by a bee in the swimming pool. The bite area swelled up, but his throat didn't, so that was good.

Tomorrow we are going to try to get out and about. Now that all our business is done, we can have a few days of being tourists again.

For those few who might be freaked out by our news (you know who you are), feel free to phone and/or email us. We would be happy to fill you in on further details!