The great glamorous outdoors

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If camping is a British invention (and it is considered to be one) than glamping has to be one, too. Glamping is glamorous camping. That’s ironed bed linens rather than smelly sleeping bags and an en suite bathroom instead of a scrubby toilet block. Glamping, in short, is enjoying the great outdoors without its many disadvantages. Shooting tigers colonial style. Or closer to home, on a trip to Torquay or Taunton. To add that little extra luxury, this girl, demonstrating the pleasures of the tent erected on the roof of an Austin A55 (actually an A40/50 ; see comments), wears high heels while ascending the car. That’s what glamping for the ordinary man looked like in the mid-1950s. Things have changed. Roof tents are now favoured by globetrotting, bearded owners of Unimogs or Land Cruisers who wear hiking boots rather then stilettos. A pity, as roof tents fit any kind of car.

(Text Jeroen Booij)

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