Must be an age thing!

20 years ago I worked in an industrial unit where the guy from the adjacent unit would turn up every Thursday from Spring to Autumn with his caravan in tow. Straight from storage he would prepare the van for yet another long weekend away with the Caravan Club. Asked 'where are you going this weekend' he would usually reply 'just down the road'. It seemed so strange, so pointless having a tourer that cost a years wages then going to a field a short distance from home.

As a caravanner myself now I get the point, once a caravan holiday was a major event in the calendar for a family, to be in a field where you can play games, talk to like minded people and make new friends, to sit in the sun with a different view each time instead of the same view of your garden, which needs work, the phone rings or the doorbell goes, you just can't relax like when you are away in your caravan so it is more like a mini holiday, a stress burner and these days more and more people are doing it and just about every one of them loves it, the only ones that get bored are the teenagers, they stop going away with their parents but they are the ones that remember the good times, they are the ones that will one day own a caravan themselves for family holidays.