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Buying your first motorhome can involve a bewilderingly wide range of choices and spending a scary amount of money. Motorhomes aren't cheap - even old ones - with positively geriatric models starting at around £5,000 and most new models costing at least £30,000. For most motorhome owners, it is … [Read more...]
Bedford Camper Vans and Motorhomes is another reference-quality book from author Martin Watt, who founded the Classic Camper Club and is an authority on classic British motorhomes. Forty years ago, Bedford was a respected name in commercial vehicles; the Vauxhall-owned brand was once the favoured … [Read more...]
For me, the name Dormobile conjures up two things: Generic images of 1960s camper vans and an image of the Land Rover Dormobile conversion. What this highlights (apart from my ignorance) is that Dormobile's success was so great that it became a generic name for camper vans - even though the only … [Read more...]
Campervan Crazy is not just another book charting the developmental history of the VW camper. The authors make it clear from the start that is not their intention. The purpose of this book is potentially much more serious, more vital; to capture the particular variety of madness that makes people … [Read more...]
The title of The Great Outdoors Cookbook could have been It Tastes Better Outdoors. As anyone who has tried it knows, somehow even very ordinary food tastes better outdoors. TV chef Phil Vickery is clearly passionate about food cooked outdoors and the recipes in this book are far from ordinary, … [Read more...]
We recently spent a month touring around Norway. We do not use a sat nav and so depend completely on paper maps. Although we prefer road atlases for their ease of use, large folding maps are also useful, especially for trip planning purposes. In addition, we found that there was not a great … [Read more...]
If you are anything like us, you will have developed a loyalty to a particular brand of travel guide over the years. In our case, Lonely Planet has been our default choice for several years now – not because the guides are perfect, but because they seem to be better than the others we looked … [Read more...]
We recently returned from a (fantastic) month-long trip to Norway, during which we travelled the length of Norway and spent every single night wild camping or parking in designated parking areas, normally for free. One of the books we took with us was All The Aires Benelux and Scandinavia … [Read more...]
My Cool Campervan is the sister publication to My Cool Caravan, which I reviewed in February. Like its sister volume, it is devoted to the joys of retro camping vehicles and the authors have made a real effort to unearth the unusual and exotic. This book is definitely not just another collection … [Read more...]
I recently received a copy of the AA Close-Up Trucker's Atlas Britain, which is a large scale road atlas of Britain and offers mapping at 1.5 miles to 1 inch (1:100,000 scale). In comparison, the AA's 'standard' road atlas, AA Road Atlas Britain 2011, has a scale of 3 miles to 1 inch. The … [Read more...]
