We're in a soulless Melbourne suburb of bargain furniture warehouses and budget supermarket to pick up our home for the next four weeks - a little campervan which, all going to plan, will take us many thousands of miles across the Australian continent. Alex has been planning a detailed itinerary for the past couple of weeks, and all we know is that we would like to get to Uluru and back. Where we stop on the way, and on the way back, is completely up to us. Hiring a campervan to tour Australia (or, more usually, a tiny part of it given the quasi-astronomical distances involved) is extremely popular with foreigners and Australians alike. According to our guidebook, there are well-equipped campsites everywhere. On top of this, fuel is - to us - relatively cheap, hovering
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