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After caravans made history centuries ago, became associated with the hippy lifestyle. Nowadays the caravan is having a surprising recovery.
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After caravans made history centuries ago, became associated with the hippy lifestyle. Nowadays the caravan is having a surprising recovery.

Knights used the caravans in Crusades & the people who afforded to have one used it as tool for moving around. The conquest of Wild West is probably the one who made the caravans famous. What would it have been like to cross the Rocky Mountains without the covered wagons? The alternative was a cold draughty ride on a horse or tramping along in the mud. Only a hundred years ago you could see brightly painted horse-pulled Romany caravans on our roads.

But what approximately now, when you have roads & maps & so many means of getting where you want? What would be now the role of caravans? You can find the answer in the need of freedom people are still having.

In the last century motor-car ownership took off yet the same thing happened to caravans & shortly drivers found themselves queuing behind lines of caravans on the way to the coast. For decades the typical image of motor-caravanners was probably that of a hippy family in an old VW. Nowadays the image of caravans is so much improved & in many cases caravan became a luxury home-from-home with a price to match.

By the time more & more people that had money to spend became interested in having their own home from home that could donate them the freedom to travel all over the place in satisfactory condition, the static caravan took off. These uncool & static caravans located by the sea or by the wild forests are now history.

Lately caravanning became one of the country’s most popular holidays. Celebrities enjoy this way of traveling or more accurate this way of living. Actresses like Helen Mirren & Tracy Shaw, singers like Mark Owen, Chris Evans & even Sir Jimmy Saville are owners & satisfied users of caravans. And now we can talk approximately fancy, luxury & styled caravans.

The classic old hand built caravans, such as the Stirling & the Carlight, used to be expensive – the top of the market. Back in the fifties, these caravans were bought & run by owners of the Armstrong Siddeley, Lagonda & Rover cars. The owners thought nothing approximately embarking on overseas trips with them of thousands of miles.