The sun was shining, birds were singing and camping had never looked better for the first official day of National Camping and Caravanning Week’s (NCCW) VIP event at Alton, The Star Club Site in Staffordshire on 31 May and 1 June.

It was a typically bleak bank holiday weekend on Dartmoor with rain and wind whipping over the peaks. But it’s the weather that shapes the mood on this moor – and us visitors were not going to be put off by slate grey skies.

In the August print issue, we celebrate the very British tradition of afternoon tea, an increasingly popular pastime that sees thousands of us search out cafés, hotels and tearooms on our camping holidays – in town and country. Here, the Magazine team share their own personal favourites…
 

In typical bank holiday style it rained and rained some more but it wasn’t enough to deter hardy campers from Tamar DA’s 40^th birthday meet, from 28 April to 1 May, at Wooda Farm Holiday Park near Bude in Cornwall.