We all love a good bbq and a good bbq becomes a great bbq when your sat outside your tent or VW Campervan. All too often we like to keep things simple when grilling, be it burgers, sausages or kebabs. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, however let me give you food for thought […]
Our Campervan Adventures
View our blog posts about our travels in our campervan, camping, outdoor cooking and campervan hire.
Information about trips and travel destinations are available in our Itineraries section.
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park
Loch Lomond is a great base to tour the lower western areas of Scotland giving easy access to some of the prettiest places in the UK. The other good thing is that you can reach the shores of the loch in around 5hrs from the base of Great Escape Campers in Derbyshire Where to Stay […]
Woolacombe – Tintagel – Sennen Cove – Carnon Downs
The summer of 2020 proved to be the summer of Covid-19 and all of the restrictions imposed upon us, social distancing, face masks, polite queueing to name a few. However, undeterred, we continued with our plans to tour the South West, particularly Devon and Cornwall. Fortunately campsites were allowed to re-open for business from the […]
Top Tips to help make a trip complete
If your new to campervanning or camping it can be a daunting experience worrying about places to stay, what to cook, what to pack and of course what will you do if the weather doesn’t quite go as planned. We have camped with our children from when they have all be very young, starting off […]
Campervan Recipe Ideas
There is nothing quite like cooking in the great outdoors and with Freddie you have a number of options available to you to cook your favourite meals wherever you fancy parking the van, be it near the beach, in a country park in one of our beautiful National Parks or any other place you may […]
Setting up really is as easy as 1,2,3…….
If your anything like me trying to remember how to set everything up in the VW Campervan will become a bit of a brain fog. Here at Great Escape Campervan hire we always ask everyone to allow around 45 minutes for handover, this way we can go through everything from setting up beds, using the […]