Field guide · 3 min read
Two more nights in Cancale
A ten-year-old typed four words into the map and planned his grandparents' three weeks in Brittany. Then she ate her first oyster, and the route had to bend.
Journal
Field notes for flexible campers.
How to find a pitch when everyone says it's full, why the best nights are the unplanned ones, and what it takes to build a map that asks for you.
Behind the map · 3 min read
A weekend in the Harz, and the campsites you can't book online
Oliver's two found the map dark in the Harz. Vacamp went through every campsite in the region and, after all that work, could read eight. A map can only show what campsites put online.
Essay · 3 min read
The case for not planning your camping trip
For forty years Oliver's two booked everything. Then their best evening in Tuscany was the one nobody had reserved.
Field guide · 3 min read
No booking button? How to ask a campsite for a pitch
The loveliest campsite Oliver's two have found has no booking button, only an email address. The short email that lost them the pitch, and the one that won it back.
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