A year under canvas
THE DECISION to spend a year camping in Britain with a baby and a toddler might not sound like an obvious one. But in 2014, shortly after the arrival of our second child, we sold all our furniture, swapped our family car for an ageing pickup truck, and moved out of our comfortable rented house and into a bell tent.
Our departure from normal life followed months of battling rent and bills on a single income (as a student, I wasn’t eligible for maternity pay), a battle we were clearly losing. I spent my days in a fog of sleep deprivation caring for our two young children whilst my
