I just discovered this recent story Come hell or highways in The Age on the road trip and family travel, and was flattered to see myself quoted. Samantha Selinger-Morris writes: “So why does the family road trip receive so much attention? The Sunday Times of London recently reported a boom in motor-home travel. And in … Read more about Come hell or highways
Moving Stories is a wonderful community web project that uses oral histories and photography to document the lives of residents in a caravan park in an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia. The project works to break down the stereotypes and stigma attached to caravan park life through raising awareness, while creating a sense of belonging … Read more about Moving Stories
Do you remember showering in your flip flops in a caravan park ablutions block? Did you find those long list of rules sign-posted outside the reception office hilarious? Have you ever spent a school holiday travelling with your family in a caravan? Terence and I did, which is why we developed Caravanland* (eons ago), a … Read more about Caravanland
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
So then, is caravanning really cool? The UK media told us it was back in 2004 when The Guardian assured us it was safe to mention the c-word. For ‘Go on admit it, my van’s the man’, writer Tom Templeton spent a weekend driving a sleek silver ‘teardrop of a caravan’ and was converted. It … Read more about Cool caravanning: it’s okay, it’s safe to mention the c-word