{"id":8,"date":"2022-09-14T09:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/34.141.59.23\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2022-09-16T01:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:09:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve been passionate about camping since we were kids. Whether in caravans or tents, campers or buses, we have jumped at the chance to get away from home and a little closer to nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/60650055-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9\" srcset=\"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/60650055-1024x668.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/60650055-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/60650055-768x501.jpg 768w, http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/60650055-1536x1002.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/60650055.jpg 1570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>When Julie first went caravanning, she was still small enough to sleep in an open draw (as the fifth person in an already crowded 3-berth &#8216;van)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when a friend of ours proposed a caravan project to solve her problems, we were happy to help. She needed a caravan to stay in for 18 months, outside her parents&#8217; home, while she completed her nursing degree. We helped her to purchase, collect, upgrade and install her caravan and then, eventually, to sell it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was when that caravan was on the market that we found out that there were others in similar situations, looking to rent a caravan to live in for a period of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stuck our toes in the water in 2016, renting out our beloved Liteweight Tracker, an eight metre monster of a caravan, that we had been towing on holidays for the previous ten years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our next six caravans were kiwi classics, made by well-loved brands like Liteweight and Oxford. But most kiwi-built caravans were approaching fifty years old, built at a time when it was said that one family in five had their own caravan. The flourishing caravan-building market had come to a sudden halt when Robert Muldoon slapped a 20% sales tax on the industry, in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although we still have a soft spot for the old NZ built caravans, we soon set our sights on the more advanced UK market, and after a visit to Nic&#8217;s mum in Birmingham, we returned with our first batch of nine English caravans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/02-Ext-front-20220122_142651-1024x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13\" srcset=\"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/02-Ext-front-20220122_142651-1024x606.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/02-Ext-front-20220122_142651-300x177.jpg 300w, http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/02-Ext-front-20220122_142651-768x454.jpg 768w, http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/02-Ext-front-20220122_142651-1536x908.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/02-Ext-front-20220122_142651.jpg 1882w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are now proud to be one of just a handful of companies offering UK caravans to rent long-term in New Zealand. They are fully insulated and packed with modern features, like toilet and shower facilities, massive skylights, an oven and a heater, making a camping experience that is much closer to living at home than it is to roughing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We deliver our caravans in the greater Wellington region, the Kapiti Coast and Horowhenua districts and, on occasion, the Wairarapa and Rangitikei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been passionate about camping since we were kids. Whether in caravans or tents, campers or buses, we have jumped at the chance to get away from home and a little closer to nature. So when a friend of ours proposed a caravan project to solve her problems, we were happy to help. She needed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/?page_id=8\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/34.141.59.23\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}