Glamping on the go: a wild ride through Cumbria in a camper truck
18-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com

Glamping on the go: a wild ride through Cumbria in a camper truck

TV presenter and naturalist Steve Backshall finds a camper truck the ideal way to give children an outdoors experience in untamed parts of northern EnglandCamping trips with a young family can be thoroughly challenging, especially in the UK, when the weather often skips from sunshine to deluge in the blink of an eye. My extra challenge is that my wife, Helen, can’t join us for our Easter break (she’s away training for her fourth Olympic Games – reasonable excuse). My three kids
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