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“It took a few journeys to move everything but it made sense to do it that way rather than hire a removals firm plus I thought I could sell the van on afterwards,” says Lia, who was so enamoured with the capacious vehicle that she decided to keep it and put it to work as a fetcher and carrier when she created, www.myhappyplaceuk.com, a pop-up glamping site at her Hudswell home.
The 14-year-old Transit can was transformed into a fabulous camper van
“I called the van Polly and she was an absolute workhorse for two years and a godsend because I was able to transport everything I needed for the glamping site. I decided to give her a new life when my grown-up children came back home to stay in lockdown. It was lovely to have them here but I missed having a special, peaceful place of my own so I had the idea of turning the transit into a camper van.”
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