Vibrant vanlife: Three Irish people on the highs and lows of campervan adventures

Jennifer Sheahan explores three ways of taking home — and work — on the road

Martha Timlin arrives at Italy's Lake Como in her blue vintage VW campervan.

Long romanticised as a sun-soaked escape, van life makes us think of winding coastal roads, wild swimming at dawn, and coffee brewed with the back doors open to the sea. I spent three weeks in my tiny campervan last September, travelling down through France and into northern Spain before getting the ferry home from Bilbao.

Niamh Donoghue enjoys the sea air.