I know you all want to make your friends green with envy telling how great is your big loop around Australia, amazing landscapes, great wildlife, friendly Ozzies, but let's be honest, after being touring for a bit, we can tell you there are few little downsides of a life on a road that sometimes could annoy even you. Here are our 6 thumbs down list for an Australian roadtrip.

1. At the top are the irritating heaps of road trains stuck on the back of our LPG Econovan ‘94 especially uphill while trying to get the hoped momentum. Maybe we are only misinterpreting... of course, now I got it, they are only trying to help us with a tiny push! To make worse, these monster trucks come one after the other. I can understand that for these drivers time is money and they don’t want to waste it behind us, but eih at 100km/ph (the Australian highway speed limit) where the hell they want to go? I felt sometimes they even like to pressure me for going faster with that all of a sudden little accelerations almost like they are going to hit you but that would only make it worst, it would arouse a combat of who is going to give it up first? Of course the truck drivers as unfortunately to them I would start slowing down so they had no choice to hold back losing their impetus and keep the distance until they would finally get the right moment to gradually recover their horsepower and overtake us.

2. The Australian highways seem like a bloody Tarantino’s movies with all the unfortunate kangaroos on the side of the roads surrounded by a pool of blood or whatever is left of their perishable bodies smashed by the steel grilles on those huge trucks’ hood.

3. Distances in Australia are really huge which is also part of the excitement of an adventure crossing this country but when you have to reach point B (Melbourne) to A (Sydney) in a day and in between there are 900km is not such fun but just a long, boring, exhausting drive.

4. Overprice camping grounds. How could you ask for 30/40$ a night for really just a skimpy plot of land where to park your van and have a hot shower? I understand when a campsite has lot of amenities such as pool, tennis court, children playground or bigger green space yet even in those cases should there not be some special deals for people that would not take advantage for those facilities as arriving late at night and leaving earlier the morning after? If we want to have a quick overnight stop along the route we learn to be better off taking advantage of those free stops along the East Coast highway.

5. Not only gravel roads can be a dear hazard for your windscreen but you have to watch out for flying stones on the main streets too. So far they strike twice on our windshield, pain in the wallet!
6. You might have driven for hundreds of kilometres before reaching that dreamy beach. It’s simple stunning, the water clear blue, it one of that muggy day and you are only looking forward to take a deep jump into that inviting sea but hold on one second, what is that big sign about those lethal box jellyfishes?

Eih don’t get me wrong, travelling is still great fun.. most of the time! Likely on our list so far there are no bedbug infestations, poachers, pirates, missing flights, drug smugglers, so we have no real reasons to complain :- )

Any more to be added on the list?