Eleanor Hughes's family have been visiting Papa Aroha holiday park since the 1970s. Photo / Eleanor Hughes Camping with the family in the same place for 50 years has seen changes but the charm remains ...

My family was overwhelmingly in the former camp, so to speak. Winter sites included Girraween, Kosciuszko and New England, places so cold it seemed my brothers and I were being put through some kind ...

Cast your eyes over those old photos. There’s the family posing beside a two-toned station wagon and romping in the surf, wearing universal smiles. There may have been scowls over mosquitoes and coils ...

If I have an abiding memory of spending time on campsites as a child it is one thing. Sitting in the laundrette, the rain beating down outside, watching our trainers going round and round in the ...