My earliest memories of caravan life take me back a long way—to the late ’60s, when our annual family holidays took us from the north of England to sunny South of France. My grandfather, the late great W.F. Dobson, was a true itinerant, having lived in over 30 homes in his lifetime. He always kept a large parked caravan somewhere along the Riviera. So from 1969, when I was just six, until 1974, Dad would drive us across France—destination: Nice, Cannes, or wherever Grandad ha