Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2022 i Campervan

Editor’s note | Welcome Hello Happy New Year, everyone! mean to go on with a chilled-out Let’s hope it’s a good one, packed full with many awesome campervanning road trips, escapades and adventures. Why not kick off the year as you winter break? I absolutely love winter camping and you can read all about my latest outing on the ’wild’ side to Norwich Castle in this issue. I also stayed at lovely Cobbleacre Park, which is just one of our hand-picked campsites for 2022. Check out page 40 to find out who else made our shortlist this year. Pixabay If you’re looking for some inspiration on where to go and what to do, we’ve got plenty of that, too. You could follow in the footsteps of Nigel and Nicola (and…

Choosing | Auto-Sleeper Air Air of soph istication This new Auto-Sleeper marks the company’s return to its pop-top campervan roots… WORDS & PHOTOS Peter Vaughan The very first Auto-Sleepers all had elevating roofs and such models dominated the company’s output through the 70s, before high-tops took over in the late 80s. Still, the Cotswold company persisted with pop-tops until the Volkswagen T5 Trooper bowed out in 2012. It hasn’t offered a classic side kitchen campervan since. Auto-Sleepers hadn’t forgotten its roots, however, and, after burning its fingers with the short-lived Mercedes Wave, a Peugeot-based camper oh-so-nearly made it into the showrooms four years ago, but for homologation issues. Then, when I collected the new Broadway EL coachbuilt for a road test earlier this year, I was excited to see a Ford…

Enjoying | Campervan community campervan community We take a look at what’s been rockin’ your weird and wonderful campervan world this month… Campervanners of the month A love of camping versus a love of five-star hotels led me and my husband to buy a campervan last year. It could have been a disaster but turned out quite the opposite. We happily booked up lots of trips away, to sites we had never been to, in places we knew little about. We were novices but learnt quickly, chatted to old hands and had a great time exploring the English countryside. What a fantastic decision and a great way to spend a summer! Already booked five sites for 2022 – happy days! Helen, email The same, but different… “Does my bum look…

Hand-picked sites for 2022 | Enjoying Our hand-picked campsites for your 2022 holidays A varied selection of the Campervan team’s favourite sites, to inspire you for your next year of getaways… 1 Mannix Point Camping & Caravan Park, Co Kerry Ring of Kerry Coast, Cahirciveen 00353 66 9472806 campinginkerry.com Easter – 15 September If you’re planning on a trip to the Republic of Ireland this year, you won’t get a much more scenic location or a warm Irish welcome than at Mannix Point. The campsite is set on the coast of the Ring of Kerry and the Wild Atlantic Way, with stunning coastal views. There are grass and hardstanding pitches, most with electric hook-up. Facilities include toilets, showers, a dishwashing area and a laundry room. Mannix Point is a mecca for musicians…

Our campervans | 2020 Hillside Birchover Classic Norfolking around Geneve and Steve revisit their old stomping ground of Norwich to do the sightseeing they never did… I really hope I am not alone in this, as that would make me very tragic. But, when you live somewhere, I think it’s natural that you don’t necessarily always get around to visiting all the attractions on your doorstep that someone visiting the area probably would. For example, I lived in Cambridge for many years. A city where people flock from all over the world to see its famous university colleges and renowned museums. Although I did explore these things over time, it was never of my own free will. Usually, I had friends and family staying that wanted to visit all the…

Choosing | Auto-Trail Expedition 68 Auto-Trail Expedition 68 A garage layout joins this budget-priced range of campervans… Auto-Trail’s Expedition campervans were a big hit in 2021. With a starting price of £36,995, they undercut even the kings of cut-price camping, Elddis. But, there were just two models to choose from and, if you didn’t want a rear lounge, you’d have to spend more elsewhere. For 2022, the Expedition range is expanded to include motorhomes, too, but we’re interested in the extra campervan that increases the line-up to a trio. The new 68 model is the first extra-long (6.36m) version and the first four-berth, too, as a colour-coded pop-top roof is offered as an option (also now available on the Expedition 67). That’s the good news. The bad news is that,…

Enjoying | Orkney Awesome Orkney Nicola and Nigel, and Guinness the campervan cat, have big adventures on this little island… WORDS Nicola Cooke PHOTOS Nigel Cooke As part of a six-month campervan trip around Scotland, we had decided to spend some time in Shetland. As the journey by ferry can be quite long, we wanted to make the crossing as pain-free as possible for our 19-year-old cat, Guinness, so we decided that we would make the crossing in two stages – the first being a 1.5-hour crossing from Scrabster to Stromness in Orkney. Whilst Orkney wasn’t going to be the main focus of our trip, research beforehand had revealed that there were a number of very interesting historical sites on the islands that looked well worth a visit, together with some…

Your campervans | 1961 VW splitty + 1971 Abi Monza caravan mash-up Super camper-caravan-tastic expialidocious! With no experience whatsoever, but with a love of classic vee-dubs, vintage caravans and all things retro, Brian and Vicky build the ultimate hippy waggon… WORDS & PHOTOS Paul Howard Is it a bird, is it a plane? Or, should I say, is it a VW campervan or is it a caravan? Well, it could be either, depending on whether you're seeing it from your rear view mirror or you are following it in a queue of traffic. What am I talking about? Well, three years ago, 48-year-old Brian Thompson, a professional floorer, and his wife, Vicky, a holistic beautician, decided to get an old VW panel van along with a caravan from the 70s era…

2015 Wellhouse Toyota Alphard | Our campervans Discovering delights on the doorstep Having relocated to Dorset, Sandra and Susan set off to the coast to explore their new surroundings… Having recently moved to Poole, we needed to find some sites close to home for short breaks and we'd lined up a couple for a week away in Alphie, the campervan. We would have three nights at Lytton Lawn Touring Park, Milford on Sea, between Lymington and Christchurch, and then have two nights at Back of Beyond Touring Park, St Leonards. You know what’s like – you think that, roughly, you know in which direction to head when you set off, but you don’t know the last bit to reach the site, so you put the sat-nav on for the whole…

In the know | Carbon offsetting Offsetting your carbon footprint If you’re thinking about doing something to offset the carbon footprint of your campervan, here’s a few things to consider… WRITTEN BY Tim Walker Camping might be better than flying but, let’s face it, trundling around in a 3.5-tonne truck isn’t exactly good for the planet. Some people carbon offset their flights and this set me thinking – how easy would it be to carbon offset our campervan trips? What better way to while away a few hours one wintry day than to find out how to do it? This is the story of my journey through the convoluted world of carbon offsetting. It has a happy ending… First of all, what does carbon offsetting mean? Put at its simplest, it…

Enjoying | Canada Vancouver Island Mike has an island adventure in British Colombia, Canada, with Kali the campervan… WORDS & PHOTOS Mike Waterman How about touring the largest Pacific island east of New Zealand? At 286 miles tip to tip and 62 miles at its widest, that’s Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Kali, my campervan, and I had arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from the UK, via Antwerp, by ship, and had spent the last few months exploring Canada and the US. For this leg of the journey, we took a ferry to Vancouver Island. The MV Coho was built in 1959, so a little older than me. Depending on the season, the ferry makes the 90-minute crossing of the Juan de Fuca Strait between Port Angeles in the…

Enjoying | Destination of the month Porthmadog Destination of the month Kick off the new year by starting as you mean to go on, with a lovely trip to the seaside in wild Wales… If you love the outdoors then a trip to north Wales is an absolute must for anyone. You won’t be stuck for things to do in the Snowdonia National Park and you can even take a train to the summit of the highest mountain in Wales, Snowdon, if you don’t fancy climbing it! The coast around here is absolutely stunning, too, with lovely, pretty fishing villages that rival anything you’ll find on the English Riviera. Porthmadog is a great example, with its picture-postcard harbour and steam train. You’ll find plenty of eateries and watering holes, so…

2018 Adria Twin 640 SPX | Your campervans Dipping a toe Penny and Marc decide to swap their Adria motorhome for a campervan. But, will they fall in love with vanlife, or miss their old chest freezer on wheels? WORDS & PHOTOS Penny Reynolds I always dread those immortal words spoken by my husband, “I have seen a car/bike/van!” It usually means that he wants to change something. This time, it was swapping our motorhome, Boris, an Adria Sport coachbuilt, for a campervan. I was a little surprised, as Marc had always said he wanted an A-class, in other words, bigger, so to downsize was a shock. So off to the NEC show we went to look at various options, including the one he had been eyeing up. Well, to cut…

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