BEAUTIFUL BEAULIEU
Pop-up campsite? I’ve seen pop-up tents (rather different to the rigid triangular-shaped ridged tents of my youth), which put themselves up in moments. But pop-up sites?
We have stayed on all manner of sites, and a fair few wild camping spots, over our many years of touring, but never a pop-up. So what are they all about?
There was only one way to find out – as soon as the email advertising such a site at Beaulieu arrived in my inbox, I was on the phone and booking us in for a weekend.
A whisper in my husband Ro’s ear that we would be staying on the actual site of the National Motor Museum and World of Top Gear had him firmly on side.
The pop-up proved to be exactly that, and so much more. A couple of large fields on the Beaulieu estate, in the south-east of the beautiful New Forest National Park, had been turned over to the Caravan and Motorhome Club to run as a campsite for the summer.
Luxury temporary toilet and shower blocks and some coloured flags on the ground, along with a
