Sydney, the end of the trip, the end of the freedom of living and traveling in a Van, the end of Australia!!!
We planed to stay in Sydney as long as it took to sell the van and after to go to Melbourne..... It's not the season and NOBODY IS HERE FOR BUY A VAN!!! We have spent 7 or 8 days 3 floors underground in a parking lot under artificial light, its the only legal place backpackers can sell there vans in Sydney.
We are staying at Sydney travellers car market in King Cross, in a parking reserve for van sellers.
When we arrived there was 1 station car and 3 vans.
Now there are at least 8 Vans! So a big competition and not so many backpackers. Thank God Digby has always been a good sales man!!!
During the first week, almost nobody came visit vans, or they don't have any budget ( only $3 000 and our vans are much expensive!) Digby and some other went out every day on foot flyering the town going to every youth hostel to hand out flyers.
The second week it was a little bit more busy but still big competition, and backpackers prefer pay less and have a shit van with shit engine than to pay more and have a perfect van ( like ours!) so we all think they are silly but it's not our problem! Ours has an MOT from this week and a full service history, rebuilt engine and everything. It also runs LGP gas half the price of petrol! It also has a 1000km range perfect for doing long distances in the outback. Still they buy rotten half working vans for $1500.
Then the same day two couples came and both wanted our vanetos!!!! it was almost the competition!!!
But as we have our flight on saturday ( so in 2 days!) we took the first offer: a french couple really nice who buy our van for $4400.
So we are really happy with this offer and are much more relax now!!!! we can enjoy sydney and our last days in Australia without being stress to sell the van ASAP for a stupid price. (Some people with only hour before there flight have sold really good vans for $500 desperate to get anything instead of just leaving it at the airport with the keys in the ignition.)
Also during 2 weeks in the carmarket wea met such nice guys!
We were with Monique and Emiel from Netherland, Georgina and Jean Eudes from Netherland and France, and Yohan and Laura from France, all of them selling their van also.
We spent all day trying to sell the van and the night outside , camping with our vans on the coast with the beautiful vue of Sydney by night. We made Sushi in the car park at night 3 floors underground as there was torential rain.
One night doing some urban camping in a public carpark some homeless crack heads came with broken glass shards to steal our van and take our keys. We were quite scared, one of us grabed a cooking knife from the table, Digby saw a chance to run across the road and sprinted to a sports field to get a team of rugby players to come over and help us. They came and also called the police. Digby went to the police station to give a station. A week later he identified the guys in a line up. They are now in custody bail refused soon to go to court. (luckily but it was fucking scary being surrounded by crack heads in the middle of the night trying to steal your whole house with everything you own in the whole world inside!)
We found because of this a much nicer camping spot though over looking all of Sydney, Digby and the guys swam in the harbour most mornings, then used cold outside showers to wash. (its autum here and getting a bit cold especially the morning)
On the week end we were so pissed not to have sold our vans of so we all moved to Blue Montain: 1h away from Syney, we camped here in the forest for 2 days, enjoyed cooking everything on wood fire and enjoy the nature. Its cool to travel in convoy, with lots of friends
We went for a walk in the montain but we came back 5h later starving and exausted!!! the walk was so hard! Sofie's legs was penfull the next day!
So we are really sad now to leave our really good friends, it will be weird to be only both of us with our backpacks after being used to be 3 vans everyday ! ALways cooking and eating together helping each other to sell the vans.
We LOVE Australia so much , and to hear and see pictures of our friends to the Gold coast, central australia etc... we really really want to come back and do that.
With tears in our eyes we say goodby to our van and to this amazing country.
Australia we will see you really soon again!
xxxx
D+S
We planed to stay in Sydney as long as it took to sell the van and after to go to Melbourne..... It's not the season and NOBODY IS HERE FOR BUY A VAN!!! We have spent 7 or 8 days 3 floors underground in a parking lot under artificial light, its the only legal place backpackers can sell there vans in Sydney.
We are staying at Sydney travellers car market in King Cross, in a parking reserve for van sellers.
When we arrived there was 1 station car and 3 vans.
Now there are at least 8 Vans! So a big competition and not so many backpackers. Thank God Digby has always been a good sales man!!!
During the first week, almost nobody came visit vans, or they don't have any budget ( only $3 000 and our vans are much expensive!) Digby and some other went out every day on foot flyering the town going to every youth hostel to hand out flyers.
The second week it was a little bit more busy but still big competition, and backpackers prefer pay less and have a shit van with shit engine than to pay more and have a perfect van ( like ours!) so we all think they are silly but it's not our problem! Ours has an MOT from this week and a full service history, rebuilt engine and everything. It also runs LGP gas half the price of petrol! It also has a 1000km range perfect for doing long distances in the outback. Still they buy rotten half working vans for $1500.
Then the same day two couples came and both wanted our vanetos!!!! it was almost the competition!!!
But as we have our flight on saturday ( so in 2 days!) we took the first offer: a french couple really nice who buy our van for $4400.
So we are really happy with this offer and are much more relax now!!!! we can enjoy sydney and our last days in Australia without being stress to sell the van ASAP for a stupid price. (Some people with only hour before there flight have sold really good vans for $500 desperate to get anything instead of just leaving it at the airport with the keys in the ignition.)
Also during 2 weeks in the carmarket wea met such nice guys!
We were with Monique and Emiel from Netherland, Georgina and Jean Eudes from Netherland and France, and Yohan and Laura from France, all of them selling their van also.
We spent all day trying to sell the van and the night outside , camping with our vans on the coast with the beautiful vue of Sydney by night. We made Sushi in the car park at night 3 floors underground as there was torential rain.
One night doing some urban camping in a public carpark some homeless crack heads came with broken glass shards to steal our van and take our keys. We were quite scared, one of us grabed a cooking knife from the table, Digby saw a chance to run across the road and sprinted to a sports field to get a team of rugby players to come over and help us. They came and also called the police. Digby went to the police station to give a station. A week later he identified the guys in a line up. They are now in custody bail refused soon to go to court. (luckily but it was fucking scary being surrounded by crack heads in the middle of the night trying to steal your whole house with everything you own in the whole world inside!)
We found because of this a much nicer camping spot though over looking all of Sydney, Digby and the guys swam in the harbour most mornings, then used cold outside showers to wash. (its autum here and getting a bit cold especially the morning)
On the week end we were so pissed not to have sold our vans of so we all moved to Blue Montain: 1h away from Syney, we camped here in the forest for 2 days, enjoyed cooking everything on wood fire and enjoy the nature. Its cool to travel in convoy, with lots of friends
We went for a walk in the montain but we came back 5h later starving and exausted!!! the walk was so hard! Sofie's legs was penfull the next day!
So we are really sad now to leave our really good friends, it will be weird to be only both of us with our backpacks after being used to be 3 vans everyday ! ALways cooking and eating together helping each other to sell the vans.
We LOVE Australia so much , and to hear and see pictures of our friends to the Gold coast, central australia etc... we really really want to come back and do that.
With tears in our eyes we say goodby to our van and to this amazing country.
Australia we will see you really soon again!
xxxx
D+S
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