The Lake District for £7-a-night

Forget sleeping under canvas - Nick Roe on his budget barn-hopping expedition around the Lakes

• A weekend teepee in Norfolk

Britain's perfect pitches

Adventure, romance, showers, zero guilt; a night under canvas has it all, says the editor of the Cool Camping guides

Good food on the camping trail

Campsites are enjoying a blooming relationship with local farm shops and gastropubs - Nick Wyke reports

• Essential gourmet camping

A weekend teepee in Norfolk

Badgers and strange brews were not enough to spoil the romance for Ginny McGrath

• First-time campers in Norfolk

The 15 best campsites in France

Whatever kind of site you’re after, Jonathan Knight, author of Cool Camping France, has been there

• All your tent gear

Canvas chic in France

Vincent Crump checks in at France’s poshest camp site plus more five-star pitches

• An in-tents experience in France

King of the wild Swedish frontier

Ian Belcher tackles Kungsleden, a 90-mile royal trail through the scenery, schnapps and saunas of the far north of Sweden

Famous five camping adventures

Linsey McNeill persuades five experienced families to reveal their tips and cautionary tales

• Le camping rides high on waves of nostalgia

How much for a motorhome?

You could spend £250,000 on a motorhome - or get rolling in a caravan for just £10,000

• Four vantastic journeys

Converted on a motorhome holiday

Anthony Peregrine hated motorhomes - until he was the person driving one through France

A novice and his caravan in Dorset

Novice Christy Campbell soon got the hang of caravanning on his trip through Dorset and Devon

• Family caravan holidays in Cornwall

The family bandwagon

First camping went upmarket - now it is the turn of caravanning says family expert Emma Mahony

• Don’t tell Clarkson - but caravans are back