Field guide · 2 min read
Ask Claude where to sleep tonight
Twenty to eight outside Biarritz, every car park barred. Bo on the evening Liv asked Claude where to sleep, and how to connect Vacamp to Claude in a minute.
Journal
Field notes for flexible campers.
How to find a pitch when everyone says it's full, why the best nights are the unplanned ones, and what it takes to build a map that asks for you.
Behind the map · 3 min read
A weekend in the Harz, and the campsites you can't book online
Oliver's two found the map dark in the Harz. Vacamp went through every campsite in the region and, after all that work, could read eight. A map can only show what campsites put online.
Field guide · 3 min read
How to find a campsite in August without booking in January
Every January somebody says the coast is full. Elfriede, a family caravan who never goes faster than 80, on how her family still ends up by the sea in August.
Essay · 3 min read
The case for not planning your camping trip
For forty years Oliver's two booked everything. Then their best evening in Tuscany was the one nobody had reserved.
Field guide · 3 min read
No booking button? How to ask a campsite for a pitch
The loveliest campsite Oliver's two have found has no booking button, only an email address. The short email that lost them the pitch, and the one that won it back.
Behind the map · 2 min read
Behind the map: teaching Vacamp to read campsite booking systems
Six hours in a lay-by with nothing to do but read over Liv's shoulder. Bo, a 1980s VW bus who never books, on where the prices on the Vacamp map come from.
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