How to hire a campervan and go on an open-road adventure
Once the preserve of pensioners, van life is now the ideal British escape for everyone and it s never too late to start
25 July 2021 • 5:00am
Madeleine Howell and Constance, the 1966 cream Volkswagen Type 2 camper she hired for a weekend at Woodfire Camping in West Sussex
‘Glampervanning” is going mainstream, just as glamping did. The meteoric rise in campervanning has seen increasing numbers of Brits setting off on four wheels in search of freedom and fun. Tempted to join them? I know how you feel.
When I search #vanlife on Instagram (a regular habit), thousands of aspirational images of the kind of #outboundliving#openroadlife I dream of taunt me with their promise of carefree, nostalgia-inducing summers of slow travel in impossibly picturesque, remote locations.
20 of the UK s best seaside food shacks, beach huts and cafés
From humble huts to converted boats, the Telegraph Food team and Britain’s top chefs reveal their favourite spots for seafood on the beach
Tomé Morrissy-Swan visits Goat Ledge in East Sussex
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When the world’s leaders descended on Cornwall last month for the G7 summit, they’d landed in perhaps Britain’s foodiest county. With 41 Michelin stars to its name and countless chefs making use of the region’s world-class seafood and produce, there was plenty of choice to wow the politicians.
The event’s showpiece banquet, however, was catered not by a chef from one of the county’s many white-linen-and-silver-cutlery spots, but by the owner of a humble seaside shack, Simon Stallard of the Hidden Hut near Truro: proof that some of Britain’s best cookery is taking place in informal sheds, trucks and converted boathouses around the country.
What it s really like to be a housemaid at Buckingham Palace
As a member of the Royal Household, I d be dusting priceless pieces one minute and scrubbing a royal loo the next
10 July 2021 • 6:00am
Alicia Healey says working as a servant for the royal family was a tale of two jobs
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Once the bubble of university study bursts and you’re let out into the harsh reality of the job market, it can be hard to find even the end of a career ladder, let alone climb one. In my experience, it seemed to be more about “who you know”, not what you know, especially in the arts world.
Forget the North-South divide – it s all about East versus West now
Rising evidence of an east-west divide is shaking up the property market. Could Norfolk be the new Cornwall? And Essex the new Oxfordshire?
26 June 2021 • 6:00am
Countless Londoners are clamouring for houses in the east and west of the UK, and it’s easy to see why
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It didn’t surprise me when Karl Manning, head of residential sales at Savills Chelmsford, told me that sales in Essex in the first quarter of this year were up 167 per cent compared with last year.
Combine this with a lack of available properties, then add countless Londoners who are clamouring for houses to the mix and it’s easy to see why the roads and schools out in the east are slowly filling up.