The caravan

Guess what i am pulling here :

It's our new house when it's folded up !


It's real easy to tow - only 650Kg !

This is how it looks after opening:

Of course - the first time it took us 3 hours to unfold the 'robotric' ...

but we are improving !

Constructing the side tent (ohel tsad) very much reminds me of the army

when we set up our Nagmash's 'ohel tsad'.

Here are some pictures from INSIDE the robtric villa:

The beds pop out to the sides and the kitchen unfolds in the middle.

We were assured the caravan was water proof... but you know of course that we discovered in KIAMA (next ...) that is wasn't so water proof and there was a stormy night where it rained all night and we saw the water seeping through the canvas material.

But it wasn't so bad - it only wet the sides of our bed and meytar's side was fine.

In the morning I went out to a hardware wharehouse and bought a TARP (water resistant cover with brass rings for fastening) and extra rope and pegs and I bought a magical spray they call Scotch Guard which is a silicone spray that you can spray on leather or canvas and it water proofs it - i didn't believe it would work - but it worked like magic ! no need for tha tarp.

Even though it was a little rainy lately it is still warm and everyone walks around in the rain with short sleeves and short pants.

Its a challenge to tow the caravan and do U-turns when we get lost in Sydney and other small towns - but we manage. The caravan has brakes that turn on when its pushed onto the car so when you want to reverse you have to put in a lever in the connection.

I am almost used to driving on the left side but it still is a challenge sometimes - i always open the wrong door and expect to find the car wheel and then i see it's the wrong side.

I only drove 3 times on the wrong side of the road up to now :)

Last evning we were exiting a national park dirt road that we drove for 8Km in the middle and when we exited to the highway it was getting dark and I turned into the wrong lane and drove for about 500m until a car came in front of me and we saw each other from afar and I went down to the side and we both stopped - "no worries" as australian's say - everything is ok - Life goes slow here and no one drives fast. (the drivers in front of us probably said to themselves "damn tourists again..." - and we said damn Left side british driving ....).