Summer reads: The best of Canvas - part 1
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NZ Herald
The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best premium stories of 2020. Today we look at five of the best Canvas stories of the year.
Other people's holidays - what's it like
to grow up in a motor camp?
When I was 9 years old, my family moved to a motor camp. We left Marlborough for the West Coast and, for the next eight years, other people's holidays came to us.
Friends imagine this time in the halcyon tones of a perpetual summer. It's true West Coast sunsets are pretty but, when asked to imagine the colour pink, the first image in my head is always shower scum.