The cool camping cool caravanning hype may have convinced style-conscious travellers to get out of the city and get away to the country to pitch a tent for a weekend or two, but did it really fuel some kind of fashionable camping revival? Had camping ever become chic in the first place or was it … Read more about Cool camping: how many hipsters believed the hype?
“Hands up if you traded in the Airstream – for a Gypsy Caravan?” The Times asked in The Family Bandwagon. This article must take the cake in a long line of silly stories over the last couple of years by lazy travel writers who all too keenly latched on to the cool camping cool caravanning … Read more about Hands up if you traded the Airstream for a gypsy caravan?
Travel by caravan, RV or kombi may be just as cool as camping if vehicle registrations and club member- ships are anything to go by, but to the travel media it’s cooler to write about camping – unless the caravan is expensive, luxuriously fitted out, comes with quirky extras or retro-cool packaging, or is simply … Read more about Cool camping vs cool caravanning: a case study in ‘cool’ travel writing
Forget the need to worry about whether your gear is waterproof, breathable or even lightweight “The only question cool campers will be asking of their equipment this summer is whether they should opt for Ted Baker’s flying duck-motif tent or Cath Kidston’s cowboy-print tipi,” The Observer told us in ‘Cool Camping’. And that was only … Read more about Cool camping: cowboy-print tipis and other chic accoutrements
A Mongolian yurt, luxury tented cabin, wooden wigwam, or plain old pup tent… wherever you choose to roll out your sleeping bag know that (just like caravanning), camping is cool. Or so the media has been insisting for a while now. More Brits were taking their tents to the country than ever before, BBC News … Read more about Cool camping: creature comforts, clever marketing and celebrity campers