Hobbies Can Come In The Strangest Forms

As we travel around the UK for a year in our motorhome, promoting my Beyond Series of books we are staying at different campsites every couple of days.

This is great for me, because one of my greatest pleasures is a small town in Wales, Portmadoc. I guess it comes from holidaying at Greenacres Caravan Park every year of my childhood from being about four years old to my early teens. I loved the place so much we bought our Welsh gold wedding rings from a Portmadoc jewellers and I had my Hen Weekend there too.

As a child I found staying in a caravan, cute, cosy and magical, which is probably where my obsession with the gypsy lifestyle originates from. My obsession with caravans, in particular retro caravans from the 70s and 80s, when I used to holiday as a child.

So you can imagine my excitement and thrill to be travelling around the UK and staying in the less well known and smaller caravan sites that do not insist on Static Owners upgrading their vans every ten years.

To my delight there is now a plethora of vintage retro caravans to find and explore on each site we visit. My mission now is to find the exact same caravan we stayed in when I was a child, my happy childhood holidays, before Bradley Bear, Sidney Seagull, Lizzy Lizard, Loopy Rabbit and all the other money grabbing commercialism of todays British Caravan Holiday sites... Yes my friends I am in search of a 1982 Cosalt Monacco Caravan. If you see one or know someone who has one please let me know. But for now, here are some of the beautiful vintage and well cared for caravans that I remember occupying the caravan site I used go to.