No matter where else I go every year, I really look forward to my camping holiday. I have what USA knows as a pop-up (folding camper in UK) and take it to Europe every July/August. I go off this Friday by tunnel to France, cross the Alps into Italy, then down to Umbria for three weeks. Good book in one hand, cold beer in the other - heaven.

It's amazing though how friends, who well know my penchant for the finer things in life, simply can't understand that I love camping - they imagine you have to "rough it". I mean, me, rough it? No chance.

cheers, Terry