How to hire a campervan and go on an open-road adventure
Once the preserve of pensioners, van life is now the ideal British escape for everyone and it s never too late to start
25 July 2021 • 5:00am
Madeleine Howell and Constance, the 1966 cream Volkswagen Type 2 camper she hired for a weekend at Woodfire Camping in West Sussex
‘Glampervanning” is going mainstream, just as glamping did. The meteoric rise in campervanning has seen increasing numbers of Brits setting off on four wheels in search of freedom and fun. Tempted to join them? I know how you feel.
When I search #vanlife on Instagram (a regular habit), thousands of aspirational images of the kind of #outboundliving#openroadlife I dream of taunt me with their promise of carefree, nostalgia-inducing summers of slow travel in impossibly picturesque, remote locations.