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Staying Safe on Remote Campsites
Considering several shocking occurrences in
the Australian outback over recent years, it’s hardly surprising
that many people are easily put off the idea of camping in remote
areas because of what they see in the media. With crime seemingly
on the increase, the comparative safety of ‘bricks and mortar’ becomes
ever more comforting...
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Rekindling
the Spirit of Exploration
Here’s a short test: Looking back over your
last vacation, was it (a) lots of fun for the whole family, (b)
reasonably adventurous, (c) an enjoyable learning experience, or
(d) none of the above. Be honest. If you answered (d) perhaps it’s
time to rethink your holiday strategies...
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How to Camp
Smart
It’s one of life’s eternal mysteries: more
often than not, it’s the little things that turn a good day lousy.
Camping is no different. The big issues just come and go, but when
you least expect it -- Wham!...
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How to Start
an RV Lifestyle - Several Tips
Dreaming of traveling the country in an RV
but need the basic information about how that lifestyle works? Here
are five tips from an experienced full-time RVer that could help.
Find out how to live and even work on the road while exploring the
wonders of this beautiful country...
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Gone treeplanting
One of the reasons my visiting friend wanted
to see Nicosia the capital was because we were starting to get on
each others nerves and needed a break. When I was visiting Prague
over Christmas and mentioned that I could survive on the island
for about 10 bucks a day, his eyes perked and thought he had found
himself a cheap vacation and temporary escape from the cold winter
town. He told me he could cover my beers and food, and we shook
on it...
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First friends
visiting me to Cyprus
On the plane I made sure to drink as much beer
as possible, to continue on the binge I had begun earlier that day
so that I could be well prepared and lubed for my grand entry into
alcoholic party Prague. Drank right up to the point of getting off
the plane, grabbed a city bus, and started dragging my very heavy
stuff the ten blocks from the metro station to my mother’s pad behind
the National Theatre. About half way there I passed the Battalion...
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Staying in Cyprus
So I found myself a suitable parking spot on
the "other side of the wall", close enough to the border
so that I could catch a mobile signal from the Turkish side before
I got around to getting a sim card for the Greek half. Turns out
I was rather lucky to have over 400 points in credit because it
took rather long for my mobile internet to work on the south side:
apparently I was the first person in that country to want internet
on an HTC (fancy), or perhaps any mobile phone using a prepaid sim
card...
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Escaping
the Cyprus heat
After I finished writing the chapter, during
which time they kept coming up to me thinking it rather odd I did
not want to join them dancing (must have been pressured by their
boss to make sure every "client" was satisfied), I joined
them at the bar and started chatting with them. After exchanging
some niceties and having determined I was from the Czech Republic,
the head girl said, "ah", and called over a rather pretty
Slovakian girl to keep me company...
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Escape from
boredom
Well, the Turks have certainly turned out to be nice and cuddly
indeed. For those interested in Europe property investments, Yalikavak
Turkey seems a good bet. Lots of totally undeveloped shoreline,
warm climate, a nice quaint town which seems too hilly with snakey
shoreline to afford some future ugly industrial zone, and with a
growing British English speaking community for those who want to
settle in somewhere without learning a new language...
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Barelling
to Bodrum
Well, the fact that the Turks and Europeans have fought it out over
this soil over the centuries could be reason enough alone to write
a separate chapter on this, but the trip to south west Turkey, even
though it only took three days, was interesting enough so I shall
dedicate a chapter to that...
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Staying
in Stoliv, Montenegro
Well, I did end up getting a lot of work, so it was nice to settle
down for a while, pay to stay in a camp so that I could sleep with
the back door open, and generally relax the more than a month that
I stayed here…
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Arriving
to Montenegro
But first I had to pick up my liability insurance in Makarska. Back
in Zivogosce Croatia, I was having a conversation with a visitor
from Moravia (who was kind enough to give me a bottle of homemade
Slivovice – plum brandy) about his travels to Bosnia, and the one
thing he said they control when you cross the border there (note
that you have to drive through Bosnia for a small section before
getting out of Croatia on the east end) is that you have liability
insurance…
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Traveling
through Croatia
So I did end up jamming with some of the campers in the secret garden.
Brought my violin and harmonicas, got the bongo couple and guitarist
together (who were about three tents from each other but never managed
to play together), and soon enough there was a cosy circle of other
campers seated around us enjoying the live music. The establishment
eventually asked us to stop, so we moved the instruments to the
beach and finished the evening under the moonlight by the ocean…
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Working
while travelling: The dream comes true - off to Croatia!
Well, it took a lot longer to complete the caravan truck than I originally
expected, but it finally came. Not having work for a long time,
spending most of my time trying to get the truck together, and most
of my money on it as well, I was quickly running out of cash, so
my departure had to depend on finding some fellow travelers who
could pitch in on gas…
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How to Live in a Caravan
I wrote this page as part of my google ranking experiments, because
I’ve gained this information and it can help others instead of just
rotting in my head, because the internet is free and I like supporting
that, and most of all, because everyone keeps asking me the same
question when I tell them I moved into a truck: "Er, uh, so
uh, like, where do you pee and take a shower?" They also frequently
ask how I can survive without a cute travel mate, but that is on
another page. So if you reaaaaaaaaally need to know…
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How to Connect to Internet While Traveling
Many people enquire me about this, and it is important, especially
for me, since my translation business depends on it.
There are many ways one can hook up to the internet. I'd say the
most reliable of which would be through a mobile phone. These days
you can get a mobile signal practically anywhere. All you would
need is a good enough phone with which to surf the internet. For
this purpose I like to use the MDA III…
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How to construct
a caravan - Beautification
I will certainly need to update this page further, as the pictures
below are not of great quality and I am still in the process of
beautification. I guess the main problem is that I ran out of money
and therefore could not invest into all the toys I wanted to…
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How to use
solar panels to electrify your caravan
Of course everyone and their dog argued against me that it was simply
not possible, but no, the solar panels are working absolutely magnificently
and I am quite happy with them. My electrical needs are one to three
laptops worth for 8 hours a day. For this I was advised to get two
larger 110 Watt solar panels, which nicely fit on the top of my
roof. I got them installed by a welder, who designed it so that
they could be tilted in various ways and directions…
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How to construct
a caravan
It seemed I spent the most time in the beginning, staring at the
metal and wondering how on earth I was going to attach the wood
to it without piercing a hole through to the outside. But before
I started with the wood, might as well do some cheesy pimping in
the front. I bought some fake and also real leather, and just glued
it on the ugly brown plastic dashboard…
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Designing
the caravan
I first prepared this website because I wanted help from some of
my construction friends (located around the world) in designing
my caravan and future home. Now I'm rewriting it to help others,
if they would like to design their own caravan as I did…
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Back to
Czech - buying a travel van
So I landed back in Prague in time to see my visiting mom and hand
my last year’s accounting to the accountant: two of the main reasons
I did not extend my plane ticket and stay longer in Mexico, boohoo…
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Mexico Trip
- Off to Yosemite and Beyond
Take a few pictures of the Rockies I did, but the driver’s licence
seemed a bit more difficult than I had first imagined. A friend
of mine in Vancouver told me that, with the onslaught of Chinese
immigrants due to 1997 in Hong Kong, and their supposedly notorious
terrible driving, insurance premiums sky rocketed while I was away,
and in response to that the driver’s examinations have become so
much more stringent…
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Mexico Trip
- Getting a Driver’s License
Take a few pictures of the Rockies I did, but the driver’s licence
seemed a bit more difficult than I had first imagined. A friend
of mine in Vancouver told me that, with the onslaught of Chinese
immigrants due to 1997 in Hong Kong, and their supposedly notorious
terrible driving, insurance premiums sky rocketed while I was away,
and in response to that the driver’s examinations have become so
much more stringent…
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How to Buy
a Used Car
A great trick when looking at used cars is to look very hard at
the paint job. A key way to tell if a car has been re-built is to
open the gas tank and look around the tank for putty or scratches.
If there is putty or an abnormal amount of scratches, this can mean
that the car was in an accident with the gas tank affected. One
thing to stand clear of is a builder or a vehicle that has been
in an accident and has been re-built. Generally, you tend to have
more reoccurring problems with vehicles that are re-built…
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Mexico Trip
So, as some of you may know, I received a super large translation
project about half a year ago which has enabled me to realise much
of the dreams that have been bubbling up in my head over the last
few years. I’ve been stuck in Prague, nursing my baby (my business)
for the past more than a decade, until technology and circumstances
have finally given me enough flexibility to be able to take my work
with my on the road…
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My Life
in Prague
After completing my university education, and with the fun of university
life behind me, my prospects for the future did not excite me. Prague
1I thought of opening a photo studio in Montreal, a city where I
had never lived but which I had visited and appealed to me. Or,
I thought, perhaps I should move to New Orleans. I spent my last
summer treeplanting, where I discussed with others what I should
do next. Most urged me to travel a bit before embarking on my "career",
so I decided to make a swing through Europe…
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Dream of
working while travelling
This article of introduction was written for TranslationDirectory.com.
Actually, I have to be a little proud that I may have been instrumental
in bringing about the creation of TranslationDirectory.com because
I hired Serhiy Onoshko, its founder and present CEO, to help me
find customers…
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Can you
be location-independent and enjoy travelling while making money?
Recently I was the willing target of several audio interviews. The
topic of course, was blogging, however as is customary, most interviews
begin with a little background study of the person in question…
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21 Ways
to Improve Your Camping Lifestyle
Across the past 36 years or more, my wife and I have spent most of
our free time - and now virtually all of our time - in the Australian
outdoors. We started, as many do, with a small nylon tent and minimal
camping gear, all loaded into the boot of the family car. It wasn’t
long, however, before we graduated to a more robust outfit: canvas
tent and basic off-roader, followed by the relative luxury of a
camper trailer…
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RV Travels:
How To Stay Healthy On The Road
It's no secret amongst experienced RV travelers: self-reliance saves
money. The more independent you are of tourist parks, power hook-ups
and all those other so-called necessities, the further your budget
will stretch. And the greater will be your freedom…
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Travel trailer
A travel trailer or caravan is a trailer towed behind a road vehicle
(or traditionally a horse or similar pack animal) to provide a place
to sleep which is more comfortable, sheltered and protected than
a tent (although there are fold-down tent trailers). It provides
the means for people to have their own home on a journey or a vacation
(holiday), without relying on a hotel, and enables them to stay
in places where none is available…
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Mobile office
A
mobile office is an office built within a truck, motorhome, trailer
or purpose built shipping container. Most common are towable offices
built on an axled iron frame for easy relocation. See also modular
buildings] that offers re-locatable offices. Mobile field offices
are often found on construction sites, or at disaster scenes where
a temporary office space is needed…
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