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Doris the Glampervan

Norfolk’s low-lying landscape and beautiful scenery make it a popular holiday destination. This eastern county’s rugged coastline is kept alert by the blusterings of the North Sea. The unceasing assaults on it’s coast have resulted in an instinctive wariness and respect for the sea whose rough affections have helped create the dramatic coastline that is so fun to visit. For rugged coastline also read, great beaches; and for great beaches Norfolk does not disappoint. Tour Norfolk have done a wonderful piece on the beautiful beaches that can be found in Norfolk but let’s get started on this trip with glorious sandy beach of Mundesley.

Mundesley Beach | www.TourNorfolk.co.uk

Located on the North Norfolk coast, Mundesley combines rolling farming land with a seaside town. The clean beach boasts miles of long sands which stretch for miles and are great for long walks. Leaving Mundesley and following the A149 along the coast path, leads you to Holkham Bay. As the map shows, you will pass through the towns of Sheringham and Cromer. Some parts of this road may be inaccessible so consult your maps before you set off.

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Holkham Beach won the Coastal Award of 2011 for Beast Beach. The countless miles of beautiful golden sands, bounded by salty marshes and dunes are part of one of the UK’s largest nature reserves. The beach is liberating in its spaciousness with its huge size making it possible for the walker to find quite isolation, providing a splendid opportunity to observe the wide variety of striking fauna and flora.

Holkham Beach's Long Sands

A few miles from the beach you will find a campsite called Deepdale Farm It’s located in the village of Burnham Deepdale and is a location popular with campervans. Deepdale is a good location from which to explore the North Norfolk coast line.

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If you’re wondering how to camp when you’re on your roadtrip, then why not check out Maggie May. This retro campervan is fully kitted out, with all mod cons and a striking pop top roof providing an extra bed room upstairs. She’s a cool cucumber, fun to camp in and bred to cruise along costal country lanes.

Maggie May The Camper Van

So that’s our very quick whistle stop road trip around Norfolk, we wish it could have been longer but Camperbug plan to make a return visit soon. For more information about all that Norfolk has to offer, go to Visit Norfolk, the Official Norfolk Tourist website.

So here are the lucky chosen four who will be gracing the cover of the Camperbug website over the coming summer months. We kick off proceedings with Wokingham, who will be May’s VOTM. This orange T2 campervan is available for hire from it’s base in Berkshire. It’s a beautiful, left hand drive import from the US with new upholstered beds.

Orange Wokingham camper

For June we have Mango, a beautiful fully restored bay which can be picked up from Guildford. An attractive flame red eye catcher Mango is a cool cruiser and definitely made for posing in. What on earth are you waiting for? It’s the summer dudes (ignore the rain) go and get your swerves on and hire this campervan. Immediately!

Mango The June Van of the Month

In July, we have the lovely Belinda. If you are looking for London Campervan Hire then look no further than this enchanting temptress. A 4 speed pastel blue bay window campervan which can be hired for jaunts around the UK and also for weddings. Hire Belinda for your wedding and be as utterly delighted as the chaps in the picture below.

Belinda the campervan is VOTM for July 2012

We finish off with the roguish Billy, who will be the chosen one throughout all of August, the lucky chap. Billy is a gadget head, jam packed with zillions of cool features. You want Lake District Campervan Hire but you never knew you also wanted a campervan with a built in Playstation 2! Billy will show you the error of your misguided ways. He is guaranteed to keep the youngsters quiet but possibly unaware of the glorious countryside rolling along outside the window.

Billy - hire him! He is Camperbug's Van of the Month for August

New Camperbug Homepage Illustration

So what are the differences?

There are some obvious cosmetic changes such as the new illustrations which appear atop all the pages. The homepage has been made slightly more interesting too!  It should feel a bit more informative than the wall of text it once was and the scroll bar is designed to get people straight to the main event! Da Vans.

Camperbug Scrollbar

The county listings themselves have been updated too, to show preview images of all the lovely vehicles for hire, which means that the vans at the bottom of the list have just as good a chance of being seen and enquired about as those at the top. We’re also going to be rolling out a method for automatically letting you feature your van on the homepage and by extension further up the county page. Will wonders never cease.

The van profile pages stay pretty much the same but you’ll notice that My Camperbug has been cleaned.  Sending and receiving messages could be quite confusing, especially when you have 70 enquiries on your page, so all the waffle is purged and our message board now is clear and concise.

Camperbug Messaging System

There is also a forum, feel free to suggest topics for discussion and also new categories that you might want to discuss.
Plus International Locations (sound the vuvuzelas) have been added to the site, oh yes we’re going global. But ahem the companies are slightly threadbare currently but we’re sure they’ll be signing up over the coming months.

European Campervan Hire Map

So all in all, we’re pleased with what’s happened in a year, there are almost 400 vans advertised on the site from almost 200 Lenders around the UK. We’re pleased to find that a large number of people have been interested in finding out more about hiring camper vans and we’re looking forward to that number growing in 2012!

Here’s a photo of the view from Treheli Farm I found on the net. Looking forward to taking some shots of my own. The bay is Hell’s Mouth on the Lleyn Peninsula, looks more like heaven to me.

View from Treheli Farm

Anyway, getting ever more laid back in my attitude to van of the month. This is because, I’m pretty keen to show everyone the new version of Camperbug which is a week or so behind schedule. There’s some lovely new functionality built into Camperbug 2 and when I look at the current site, it lacks a certain something. I’ve commissioned some great illustrations for version 2 and the current cheesy header with my van on it, doesn’t quite cut the mustard anymore!

So back to van of the month, and before I even know it 2 weeks of June have passed. Camper Amber’s had a good run and still available for Glastonbury 2011 by all accounts but time for a new vehicle to land on the scene. And so I thought I’d add Sam and his camper to the front page of Camperbug.

I was looking at Sam’s van and reading his profile description and he exemplifies the reasons that Camperbug was created. So that normal people can rent out their vehicles, to friendly interested others, when they’re not using them. So to Sam from Wokingham in Berkshire, a chap with a van and occasional renter your orange bay is this month’s van of the month.

Orange VW Bay at the Beach

VW Bay Window Campervan from Sam's Campers

I just realised that I like making lists of the cool campers that appear on Camperbug. I mean where else would you get so many absolutely classic vehicles available for hire?? No where is where, this page being a snapshot of the riches that await the casual visitor to Camperbug. So to fulfil my current and probably semi-permanent urge to create blog lists here is a list of VW Bay Window campervans to follow hot on the heels of our recent list of VW splitscreens So, without further ado; 5 gorgeous vw bay windows for you to feast your eyes upon and possibly even rent.

Bongo

Bay Window called Bongo

What a cool bus Bongo is, this richly coloured bay window from West Sussex is simply stunning. Also what a great picture of him, his owners have taken. I love how he’s been taken down to the beach and snapped, more lovely pictures on his Camperbug page, just click the image above to see them.

Maggie May

Maggie May the Bay Campervan

Totally pimped out inside with a white poptop this 1971 Classic Westfalia campervan from Cornwall is built for adventure.

Freddy

Freddy the Bay Window

Freddy and his almost boy racer like front visor make for a lean mean bay window machine.

Wanda

Wanda the VW Bay Window

Check out the cool picture of Wanda’s reflecting hub cap on her Camperbug page! A bay window invested with a huge passion for life.

Little Miss Sunshine

Sunshine the VW Bay Window Campervan

Even though she’s been shot on a not exactly glamorous housing estate, Little Miss Sunshine’s style shines brightly through her suburban predicament. Photos of her in more exotic locations to come, I’m sure.

We’ve compiled a list of five vans on Camperbug that are absolute classics, which are available for hire. If you’re interested in contacting their owners, click on the pictures to visit their Camperbug homepage.  They’re so graceful and cool, it’s hard to believe they’re available to hire!

Beryl

VW Split Screen called Beryl

This red van called Beryl is a fully restored original 1964 VW Splitscreen campervan. Containing custom handmade wooden roof and door panels, she has an interior as stylish as her exterior.

Split Personality

A Split Screen Campervan Called Split Personality

The wonderfully named Split Personality is a beautiful green campervan with lovely barn doors. Visit her Camperbug page to see the cool interior

Mc Lovin

McLovin the Split Screen

Scarlet

Scarlett the red splitscreen

Lily

Lily the Split Screen

And last but never least is Lily from Pembrokeshire. Refurbished, renovated and ready to go, she’s a true air cooled classic.

Just to follow on from this article, please see the newest list of campervans on Camperbug, 5 VW Bay Windows

This beautiful van has been extensively refurbished. She’s an authentic 1974, right hand drive with an air-cooled engine that has seen a full overhaul. She also has a rather smart new interior but don’t take our word for it, take a look at out new van of the month on her own Camperbug page.

And if you’re interested in taking Amber for a spin be sure to register on the site and get in touch with her owners who will be more than happy to receive your enquiries.

Well the summer seems to be well and truly upon us, long bright evenings and warm balmy weather has been seen and felt all over the UK. Folk are always more interested in the outdoors when the sun is shining, which means we’ve been receiving a lot of traffic on Camperbug as a result and the enquiries have been flying back and forth. Whilst travelling all over the UK is enough for some, oher visitors are interested in taking the vans a little further afield with European Campervan Hire being asked about with more and more frequency. Some vans aren’t able to venture onto the continent, their campervan insurance doesn’t cover it, or people just don’t like letting them going so far, so I’m compiling a list of the vans that can. If you have a van that you’re willing to rent out to hirers in Europe, could you email and let us know and we’ll add it to a list that visitors to Camperbug can have a flick through. We’ll create internal links to your Camperbug page and people can browse through the vans on offer.

The second version of this website will also include a list of campers available for hire on the continent,so here’s a pretty picture of the map that will feature on those forthcoming pages!

European Campervan Hire Map

May 11th and no response from anyone! I don’t think anyone reads this blog, ho hum.
Anyway, I have an awesome idea for how to present this data when it’s ready, so watch this space

In the meantime, here are some pictures of Wesley, that you can also find on his Camperbug homepage.
This is an awesome shot of Wesley taken at the Yosemite National Park.

Wesley in a Californian Forest

Another great shot of Wesley driving off into the sunset.

Wesley Driving Into Sunset