Customer Letters & Blogs Below is a small collection of feedback that we have received - If you wish to view the letters, click on the thumbnail next to each story. Julian & Claire's Australian adventure http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/blog-266876.html Ane & Oywind from Norway http://www.blog.oyvind.info/?p=59 Paul & Kate from the UK Check out their blog about their Aussie adventure in our Hi-Top Campervan http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/springs-and-rocks.html Robbie Bezembinder from the Netherlands Check out Robbie's blog (in Dutch) about his Aussie adventure in his Falcon stationwagon http://www.travelmessage.nl/robs_travelupdate Kathy and Benthe from the Netherlands also have a blog about their trip in the Slap n Tickle van they bought from us. http://www.travelmessage.nl/benthe-kathy Tamara and Gunter from Belgium An email dated March 19th 2007 - Dear Mick, Just a short message to inform you that we safely made it back to Belgium.
We arrived back home on the 9th of March after a return trip of 33 hours (from Auckland via Sydney, Singapore and London to Brussels Airport). A damn long flight believe me ;-) If we look back now to our 6 month journey throughout Oz and NZ we are very happy that we had the opportunity to do this and we have been fortunate to meet a lot of very nice people including you. Dear Mick thanks again for all your efforts and support. Our Oz experience would not have been the same without our good old Ford Falcon Stationwagon. We hope all is fine with you and Sarah and we're looking forward to hear about the progress in the pregnancy ... Take good care mate and we hope we can stay in touch ... Lot's of love from Tamara and Gunter
xxx Jayne, Gary and Ethan from the UK An email dated March 5th 2007 - Hello Mick, its Jayne, Gary and our son Ethan from the UK!!!! We picked up our van from you back in November and then you also helped us re arrange our other van in Perth. We have been back from our travels a couple of weeks now and depression is definately kicking in!!! After our 10 weeks in Australia we went to Thailand for a couple of weeks then India for a couple, we have had an amazing time and didn't want it to end. Just wanted to say a big thank you for all the help you gave us, it was much appreciated. Hope all is well with you? Not sure if you have become a dad yet, think its around this time? Hope everything goes well, its hard work but I'm sure your gonna love it!! Take care, and hopefully see you again some time when we can afford to do some travelling again!!! (I keep putting an extra pound on the
lottery!!) Jayne Hales Linda & Seb from the UK From their weblog dated December 2006 - Big thanks also go out to the guys at the Traveller's Autobarn, John and Stefan, for bearing with us whilst we hunted around for a vehicle and even looking at one of the cars we were interested in. Thanks to them we didn't buy a piece of crap. If you're ever in Australia (or Cairns) and need to rent a Campervan or buy a good used car, definitely check these guys out. Unfortunately their campervans were booked out for several months by the time we enquired about them!
Gotta say hi to Ian, who works at the Autobarn, and lived in the same hostel with us. Drop us an email when you're back in the UK to reminisce about our respective trips! ;) Their website is"Two Backpacksand A Plane Ticket" Yvonne and Jasper from The Netherlands From their weblog dated October 2006 - "We decided to buy the car! So we went to the barn and had another negotiation. We finally bought it for AUS $4000. It's a Ford Falcon station-wagon GL, so we can sleep in it and save a lot of money. We are very happy with it and we can' t wait to pick it up. First the car gets another mechanical check so we have to wait till thursday. We already made some pictures, go check it out!" Their website is http://yvenja.blogspot.com/2006/10/sept-25-oct-02.html Recently Received via Email March 9 2006: I was wondering wondering if you could please pass this on to Mick in Darwin.
2 Canadian girls unsure of the best way to see Australia, we decided to fly into Darwin and walk to the Travellers Auto Barn, which we had only read about in The Lonley Planet. After talking to Mick we decided to rent a campervan for 30days and drive through the Outback to our Coastal destinations. Mick helped us map out our route, warned us about Road Trains and soft shoulder's and we were off, although a little apprehesive about driving on the left side of the road, going around round-abouts and seeing our first Road Train. We had the Australian adventure of a life time. Had it not been for our Campervan we never would have seen Australia the way we did.
5 days driving through The Outback we managed to stay at different Road Houses and Campsites. We travelled and stopped in Katherine, Three-ways, Mt Isa, Prairie (Our personal favorite town of 50 people), and Townsville. Ahhhh, we had hit the Coast. All our previous worries of driving had vanished. We then travelled up to Cairns and Crystal Cascades then back down to Airlie Beach. We were even able to park our van at a Campsite while we toured the Whitsunday Islands. Thanks for the tip Mick. A couple of days of relaxation and we were back in the Outback. Our favorite place to be. Stopping in the same towns to visit friends made on the way down and meet new ones. We drove into W.A. and hit the Kimberly's, specifically Kununurra. WOW! Beautiful. A couple more days to enjoy Australia and it was time for us to go back to Darwin. By the time we had finished we managed to drive more then 8000km and had an experience we will never forget.
Flying to the major Cities. No thanks. Rent a campervan and experience the Outback like no other, definately the way to go. Thanks Mick and Travellers Auto Barn we'll never forgot ya.
A.J. & Erin  Nils & Anita from Norway
"I'd heard stories, but I didn't believe it until I saw it"
- Nils obviously enjoying his buyback cash before he flew off to Singapore, en route home.
Their website www.jordarundt2005.net click on 'bilder'
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