Go! Drive & Camp

Renew the rear view

You arrive at your holiday destination, ready to put your feet up. Even though you booked your stand months in advance, management has kindly allowed you to see if you’d like an even better spot and you circle the campsite until you find the ideal stand on which to park your Jurgens Penta. You’re already picturing your camp layout while reversing and then, bam!

You’ve hit the concrete column on which the tap is mounted at the edge of the stand. The exact spot where you thought the caravan would be perfectly positioned so that you have the fire pit right next to your rally tent. Alas, you’ll spend the next week thinking about your insurance claim. If only you’d been able to see behind the caravan.

If the weather’s not playing along, the chances of your significant other standing in a storm waving you down are quite slim. You could, of course, task one of the kids to do

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