Practical Caravan

Touring POST-LOCKDOWN

‘Businesses everywhere are having to adapt to social distancing, to minimise the risk of spreading the virus’

AS WE WENT to press, caravans all over the country have been basking in the summer sunshine and perhaps even gathering dust on driveways, in storage compounds and on sites, waiting for their owners to unlock their doors.

Now they might not have so very long to wait. If the country can meet the five tests laid down by the UK Government for the road to recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, the hospitality industry can look with hope towards July as a possible date for resuming business – at least in England.

This will be good news for campsites, desperate to claw back revenue lost during the best spring we’ve had for years, and great news for all of us, desperate to see some different scenery.

People with their own caravan are best placed to enjoy some form of holiday

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