Meet Cathie

She’s had her camper since March 2017, and says: “I’ve always been a tent camper, but this is limited to summer. I wanted a longer camping season, so my NV200 CamperCar was the answer. I wanted something small and economical, because I use it for everything, but I really only go camping in it from March to October.” 

Cathie finds her CamperCar useful every day. She says, “I use it locally because I live in a beautiful part of the world. I’m not far from Woolacombe and Croyde, on the North Devon coast. In May, June and September, when you haven’t got as many holidaymakers, it’s a good time to explore. I live in a beach area, so when friends visit we take the CamperCar and use it as a changing room for the beach, out of the wind, and make drinks in it. My friends love it.”

They had their compact Nissan Camper conversion built to order by Sussex Campervans and collected it in August 2015. Steve asked for no stag livery, but instead embellished the sleek Twilight Grey bodywork solely with his favourite creature – a lizard.

Why a lizard? “I like climbing with lizards – it means that I’m in a warm and dry place,” says Steve with a smile. He enjoys climbing, especially calling into Fontainebleau on the way home from the Alps, an area just outside of Paris used by many Alpine mountaineers for training. There were certainly lizards climbing alongside Steve as he tackled the famous boulders in the region. 

Warm, dry weather is clearly a luxury for Steve. He recalls a more typical camping trip, which really made him appreciate the shelter of the campervan: “In North Wales I was climbing on Cader Idris, which was cold, wet and miserable. I was belayed on a ledge and watched a slug beat me up the rock!”