Hints and tips:
...Seek out something bonkers from Loewe, Camper or Proenza Schouler, or stay classic with a revved up Mary Jane from Nodaleto (£575, farfetch.com)....
...The novel’s heroine, Mary Yellan, suspects that the bleak surroundings have warped the minds of the locals, and that there is “something of the Devil left in them still”....
...Stay just inland at the historic Montebelo Mosteiro de Alcobaça (montebelohotels.com; doubles from £111), or rent a camper van for a tour along the Silver Coast (indiecampers.com; from about £40 per night...
...Others have been sold, for example Chris Ofili’s “Holy Virgin Mary” (1996), a portrait of a black Madonna with elephant-dung breasts....
...A PR director friend has taken drastic action to separate work and family life by using a beaten-up camper van as an office. It is parked on his front kerb....
...A camper-van pitch at Three Cliffs Bay costs from £27 per night; threecliffsbay.com....
...Mr Diess showed off Budd-E: a camper van concept that suggests peace, love, happiness and, above all, electric power....
...It was out of season when I made the trip, and there were seldom more than a half dozen other campers, and we’d talk and share beers and travel tips....
...Sadly, Sharpe, who ended his distinguished career at Queen Mary, University of London, died before this book was published....
...In the summer the area takes on a friendlier identity as a holiday destination for campers and hikers....
...Among others the Michelin-starred chef Richard Corrigan and the “queen of the Aga”, Mary Berry, will be showing off their chops in the food tent (possibly literally)....
...Like campers huddled round the night-time fire, they beguiled the weary hours of incarceration by concocting spine-chillers for each other....
...“Are you and Mary ready if anything happens?” I asked. “Nah, we’re screwed,” he said. Then he laughed. “Actually, I’d just bring my gun over and rob your stuff.” Finally, time alone....
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