Pitchside views

Not for the first time in my life, I found myself utterly overwhelmed by nature. Standing high up in the French Alps, surrounded by jagged peaks, the silence broken only by the occasional whistling of

Of all the reasons for a delay at a ferry port check-in, a World War II half-track troop carrier being abandoned at the booth is one of the rarer ones. It was the D-Day landings anniversary and at Por

Switzerland is rich, especially in clichés. Many are largely true. There are some I’m not so interested in – banking, precision watches, nuclear shelters and referendums. But others, I certainly am –

Regular readers of Practical Motorhome will know that my current campervan – a 2017 Autocruise (Swift) Select 144 – has been in my ownership for just a few months. In that time, we’d not given it much

In my 20s, I would think nothing of strapping a tent onto the back of my boyfriend’s motorbike and heading to the Lake District for the weekend, especially as I only lived about 90 minutes away from w

It was as if we had been ‘magicked’ from cool alpine grandeur, via the Gotthard Pass, into Mediterranean scenery and climate. Just a few miles south of the Swiss Alps we enjoyed views of forested moun