Sometimes the best and most memorable weekend trips are the spontaneous ones. It’s the off-season and there’s no footy on the TV, so you go camping with a few mates. Or the kids are away at the parents and you score some brownie points by taking the missus away for the weekend. Or maybe you just can’t seem to get the privacy you usually get in the mancave, so you decide to go caveman, and venture into the wild alone.
Whatever your motive, there’s always something exhilarating about packing up the car and not really knowing where you’re going, but just driving, with only one thing in mind: to get away.
In these situations, camping is nearly always the ideal choice. You get to be ‘at one’ with nature, unleash the swiss army knife you bought years ago and put all those hours you spent watching Bear Grylls to the test.
However, even camping can require some serious organisation decision making. So you end up making an inventory bigger than a six-year-old’s Christmas list, and you end up packing everything but the kitchen sink – as you don’t want to be trapped in the woods when you’ve forgotten something important. Before you know it, the spontaneity that made you want to escape in the first place has been lost, and you’re suddenly faced with as many worries as in the real world.
A company in Germany has provided a solution that supports our gender’s indecisiveness and desire to act upon impulse. It comes in the shape of the Sealander, an innovative mobile home with, as its name suggests, completely amphibian characteristics.
The floating caravan
By Callum Fitzpatrick