My Wildcamping trip around the world

kamil said:
I have many pics to upload, but internet connection here is not very good/free wifi/. We are shipping our car to Australia in the end of January and will spend whole February at home in Czech waiting for car to arrive to Australia.
If you are happy and positive, you always meet people who are also happy and positive. We did not meet one person, who was not nice.

BTW is it possible to change title of this post? If yes can moderator change it to "wild camping trip around the world" or something similar?
Thank you
Kamil+Helena
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I have changed the title for you to "my wildcamping trip around the world" I hope this is ok?
If you would like something different please let me know
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Isle of Arran

Hi, Got my Hymer last may, which I am living in (Brighton). Most pleasure I had last year was a trip to Scotland and the Isle of Arran. Absolutelly fabulous. Intending when work commitments have ended to take 'Hermioni' abroad and see where it takes me (and girlfriend). So pleased to hear about your extensive touring. Best of luck - Chris
 
We spent last week driving south Pacific coastline of Kyushu from Beppu to mys Sata/the most southern point of mainland Japan/ and now heading back to Saga, where we have to clean the car before shipping to Australia.

Just wild camping like always with great ocean views, palms,...
 
We spent February in Czech/ helcakamil | seznam alb ? rajce.net and we are in Australia now. We arrived to Melbourne where is our car. We are waiting for quarantine inspection before we can hit the road. We have whole year to explore Australia.
 
Hello from Australia.
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Just looked at your Lake District photos. Nice to see you pretty much covered the whole area, including where I live, the Furness peninsula on the coast.
 
Questions About The Journey

kamil said:
If someone has any questions, feel free to ask.
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Hello, Kamil and Helena, I have read your website and photo blog with interest and would like to ask the following questions about your journey.

1. Did you experience any immigration problems being Czech in GB registered vehicle?
2. How did you manage vehicle insurance for each country?
3. What condition were the roads in each country - did you experience harsh terrain?
4. What costs for visa? and what wrong Australian visa did you first apply for?
5. Have you managed to keep to your budget?
6. Would you recommend anyone to travel your route with a motorhome?
 
Stanski said:
Hello, Kamil and Helena, I have read your website and photo blog with interest and would like to ask the following questions about your journey.

1. Did you experience any immigration problems being Czech in GB registered vehicle?
2. How did you manage vehicle insurance for each country?
3. What condition were the roads in each country - did you experience harsh terrain?
4. What costs for visa? and what wrong Australian visa did you first apply for?
5. Have you managed to keep to your budget?
6. Would you recommend anyone to travel your route with a motorhome?
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Here are the answers. Just bear in mind we have good 4x4 so we could visit some place where you can not go with motorhome. Generally if you just follow roads in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan you will be fine.

1. No problems at all.
2. You have to buy insurance at the border. There is no insurance in Kyrgyzstan.
3. We wanted to go offroad. Roads in Russia are bad/potholes/ but you can drive there latest BMW, AUDI..just be careful. Russia is big, so it depends what you want to see.
4. You have to check each country website for cost of visa. We could apply online for Australian visa, but they have few different types, so we just put wrong number of visa and that visa was for 3 months only. We have for 12 months.
5. Yes, but it is very hard, as shipping costs are very high. We had great help in Russia from Delica club. Without them, we would not be able to keep within our budget.
6. I can not answer this question. You will be fine in most places,but not everywhere. I would say 70% was OK for motorhome in Russia, 60% in KZ, KGZ and KOR+JAP is paradise for motorhomes.

Cheers
kamil
 
Stanski said:
Thank you for the quick answers. Enjoy your journey around Australia.
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Thank you.
We will see on Tuesday how things are with our car. Shipping is the worst part, as you do not have any control. You have to wait what other people do and it is so frustrating for us. Everyone wants to make money and you have no chance to do anything.
 
Interested

Good afternoon/evening/morning.

I picked up your thread yesterday, how very interesting your travels are.

I am curious to know how long the authorities have had your vehicle how long they intend to keep it?

I watch programs about Australia - their border controls seem over zealous, are you finding this?


Best regards

Derrick in the UK
 
The quarantine is a problem. Car has to be absolutely clean/ no sand, mud, flies...../.
We are waiting for quarantine inspection now.
We cleared the car through customs on Thursday/they even did not want to see the car, just stamp in Carnet du passage/ and booked inspection for Friday. They should inspect it on Friday, but did not, so we hope today is the day.
 
Our car is ready. We passed inspection and we can collect the car tomorrow. Only bad news is, that we have to pay more then 2000AUD for all services provided here in port, storage place and other fees.
Positive thing is, WE CAN HIT THE AUSTRALIAN ROADS.
 
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