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Parking Overnight in a Campervan

I just received a question regarding parking overnight on the side of the road in a campervan. I did my research nz-campervan-no-camping-219x300and have found the answers I was looking for:

  • Locals don’t like people camping on the streets in their towns (And you really don’t want to be making trouble with the locals!).
  • Many towns have local by laws prohibiting overnight camping, and you’ll be woken at 4-5am and told to move on.
  • If there are no signs indicating you are allowed to park on the side of the road, you should not assume that it is acceptable to stop and park.
  • Most towns have motor parks, and camping grounds where you can park, and there are many opportunities for “Freedom Camping” outside of towns and built up areas.
  • Alongside rivers and lakes (except within a town boundary) or in designated camping areas within National Parks, you are welcome to camp to your heart’s content.

Just please make sure you have toilet facilities (no dumping in the bushes if you can help it) with you and also take all your rubbish when you leave!!

If you want to find out more, click here…

Distance calculators for switched on travellers.

spotlight-out-of-gasThere’s one thing you don’t want to do in the Australian outback: Run out of gas!! (Or water for that matter).

Most smart divers these days know exactly where they are going and and how many km the distance is between major towns. This eliminates that awful situation where you are stranded without gas in some weird but wonderful place on the middle of God only knows where.

So before you start your trip, check out one of these links:

AUinfo

Road Map Australia

Were Back!!

Transfercar’s back with more free vehicles than ever!

It’s interesting blogging. We’re told to include as many key words as possible in our blogs and to market our products strategically, but I get a little sick and tired of running blogs that sound like regurgitated advertising material.

I’d love to chat  with my readers…find out what they’re up to… been to any great holiday destinations lately? I’ve been here behind my computer talking to lots of interesting people online and over the phone.

I did get to Piha though. You?

Merry Christmas from the team at Transfercar

Red Santa's hat hanging on beach chair under palm treeIt’s been an exciting year here at Transfercar and we want to take this time to thank each and every one of you for all your support in 2010.

So far we have successfully transferred thousands of cars and campervans in our short time in business and with your help, we intend to transfer thousands more in the years to come.

Thanks also to all our partners who have been fantastic, understanding and patient, especially when dealing with, at times, temperamental technology. You guys rock!

From all of us at Transfercar, be safe, have fun and have a very Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year and we look forward to seeing you driving your free cars and campervans in 2011!

New Zealand driving tips

If you’re planning on driving a  relocation car or campervan in New Zealand for the first time, these tips will assist you in understanding the rules and regulations of safe driving practices and help you have a safe and enjoyable vacation.

Not sure if you are allowed to drive?

Check out our article Driving in New Zealand

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What’s the speed limit?

Speed limits are normally clearly posted by the road side.

New Zealand is blessed with gorgeous little winding roads as well as open stretches that go for miles. Every type of road in New Zealand has its good points and its bad.

If you’re driving in rural areas, watch out for gravel verges, especially on corners. Some isolated roads are unsealed and use gravel as the surface. In these cases, drive slowly. Check out for more at: www.fleetwraphq.com.

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SURVIVING AUSTRALIA’S OUTBACK

redback_webI was trawling the web looking for articles I thought our Transfercar drivers would be interested in and found this little beauty. Not only does it contain invaluable advise about travelling in the outback of Australia,  it’s a really good read!

SURVIVING AUSTRALIA’S OUTBACK

About three o’clock in the morning something woke me, and I lay listening. A strange rumbling came from somewhere out in the night. “Are you awake?” Cristi whispered softly. I whispered back that I was. “There’s something outside,” she said.
The northern Australia night was stifling. Beneath our flimsy tent we had gone to sleep in the coolest possible costumes – nothing at all. Now I got to my feet and tiptoed to the entrance to the tent. Gently I pulled open the flaps an inch apart and peered out. It was pitch black, and I could see nothing. I parted the tent flaps a bit more. There, not twenty feet from the tent, was a large crocodile.


By now Cristi was up and standing next to me. We stood there, stone-like, with nothing but a thin sheet of canvas between us and a twenty-foot crocodile.


The rumbling continued. It came from the crocodile’s stomach. It was tearing up the food we had left away from the campsite. It was a lesson of the Outback that I was happy to have learned: don’t store your food near your campsite.
Slowly it worked its way through the food, ripping apart a barbecued chicken with uncomfortable ease. Then it scurried away, toward the Herbert River, silhouetted against the horizon, immense, its red eyes gleaming in the moonlight. Finally it left, and as we went back to bed, I recalled a sign we had seen along the roadside earlier in the day. It warned travelers succinctly: “Beware of Crocodiles.”

Read the full story thanks to hackwriters.com.