City and Outback Australia

We are on the P&O Pacific Explorer departing from Sydney Australia heading toward Noumea, New Caledonia. This is an 8 night cruise. So far the food has been only ok in the buffet area though we ate at Luke Magden's burger bar last night and it was fabulous. The sea has been unkind and we were both pretty sick which doesn't happen often. They were unable to use the ships stabilisers so i'm sure thats why we fell ill. No fresh water between certain hours but that has now been fixed. The cabin Steward is great but when are they not they I guess. We will be late to Noumea due to adverse weather so we will be staying longer in port to compensate which is great.

Im in the planning phase of a short trip to Orange in New South Wales Australia. I have to drop my daughter off near there so we were going to spend some time there. Firstly we are changing the brakes from hydraulic to electric. This is going to cost around $1100 and an additional $300 for the controller. We will be fitting 10 inch Electric brakes. When I bought the camper I was not sure of the condition of the brakes and bearings. We shopped around and due to the age of the van we are better of retrofitting electric brakes. The trip is around 5 hours from where I live in Lake Macquarie ( Near Newcastle ). We plan on staying at a caravan park and taking our two smallest children as we have 5. We will be travelling through the Blue Mountains so getting the brakes done was a must. We have a 14 ft Jayco Wind up camper. It was made in 1978 so we have some work to do on it though it is water tight.