Practical Caravan

’WOLD COMFORT

‘Daddy, when can we go away in the van again, please?’

I knew it was only a matter of time before our son, Harrison, asked me this question, although having just been on the road for almost a month, for a long John O’Groats to Land’s End trip, I must admit that I hadn’t expected to hear it quite so soon!

Not that I was complaining - my wife, Kim, and I have never needed a second invitation to start planning our next trip, and it also confirmed that Harrison and his little sister Dorothy love being away just as much as we do.

And so, barely two weeks after emptying and cleaning the van after our previous trip, we were sitting down to discuss where we should go next.

It was a unanimous decision that this time, we wanted to go somewhere that was fairly close to home and wouldn’t actually require us to drive anywhere once

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