Getting Close To Nature — The Old, The New & The Scary

Photo: Penny Grubb

Talk of camping often goes hand in hand with talk of holidays these days — leisure, relaxation, getting close to nature — but this is a relatively modern interpretation. We will never know for sure who went on the first ever camping holiday in the sense we understand it, but modern recreational camping is said to have been founded by Thomas Hiram Holding who wrote the 1st edition of The Campers…