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The VW California Camper Takes Cornwall
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It's summer, so I have been told, but the weather isn't playing ball, writes Jeremy Webb.
I am rethinking my holiday plans to stay two weeks in a tent in Cornwall. Instead, I am trying vanping and camping in a van, the Volkswagen California Camper. The perfect accommodation for a British summer with all the temperature and precipitation changes it can over the course of one day, let alone fourteen of them.
You will recognise the VW California. It is the camper van chosen by surfers, dog...
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