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Illustration of a late-1950s VW Splitscreen camper parked in side profile on the cobbled 1950s street at Beamish Museum, beside old shopfronts and petrol pumps.Latest story

Van Life & Everyday Touring

The VW campervan story: how a delivery van became a dream

No vehicle on earth says freedom quite like a Volkswagen camper. But it started life as a humble factory delivery van sketched on a notepad. This is the story of how the VW bus became the universal symbol of the open road, and an honest word on what that dream costs today.

Oliver15 min read
Illustration of a VW California Ocean with its pop-top raised in the camper field at CamperJam, Weston Park, with rows of VW campers and bunting stretching towards the red-brick hall.

Van Life & Everyday Touring

The best UK campervan shows, and which one to actually go to

Rowan16 min read

There are dozens of campervan and motorhome shows in the UK, and you don't need to do them all. Here are the ones genuinely worth your time, sorted by what you actually want from a day out: to buy, to gather ideas, to find your people, or to lose a weekend to a field full of VWs.

Illustration of a VW California campervan among oak and larch timber stacks in a rainy Forest of Dean sawmill yard, with a finless wooden alaia surfboard leaning against its side.

Van Life & Everyday Touring

The first surfboards, and who really invented surfing

Oliver25 min read

Who invented surfing, and what did the first surfboards look like? The honest answer runs from ancient Peru and West Africa to the chiefs of Hawaii, and it's a far better story than the myth.

A Volkswagen California campervan with a vintage single-fin surfboard on its roof bars, parked under brick railway arches beside a retro surf shop in Newcastle's Ouseburn Valley.

Van Life & Everyday Touring

Do you remember these vintage surf brands and their logos?

Rowan25 min read

Two bare feet, a mountain and a wave, a single lightning bolt. A nostalgic tour through the original surf brands and the iconic logos that built modern surf and van-life culture.

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