On the kiwi roads we met a lot of campervans, it’s an easy and rather cheap way of travelling, knowing that in general, it rains a lot on the South Island. As a camping manageress said: "it’s thanks to the rain that our land is so green".

While some people drive around in castles or cottages on wheels, the younger generation takes a more adventurous and sexy outlook with small vans that offer basic comfort, more like a bed on wheels… and some suggestive images on the hood – Escape provides a standard van with natural scenes painted on it: fish, flowers... (continued)