‘We keep nightly adventures private within the plastic walls’

Jannine Berkelaar is editor-in-chief of Kek Mama. She and her husband Erik have daughter Elin (9) and son Mats (7).

For years we have been celebrating our summer holidays at a campsite. Like true luxury cats in a mobile home, that is. Every year a new upgrade is added: extra room, air conditioning, larger veranda, Nespresso machine. This way we can enjoy the conviviality of the campsite, but not the burdens of the diehard campers (public toilet buildings and with your basin with dishes over the field).

mobile home

Another advantage of a mobile home is that it is slightly more soundproof than the canvas of the tent canvas, which is useful at several times. We keep nightly adventures private and the children cry because they really have to go to bed at 11 p.m., stay within the plastic walls.

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Soothing Sound

Still, I can imagine that it must be a soothing sound for many people. The buzz that permeates the canvas as you lie on your bed. The rustle of the wind along the guylines. The soft ticking of a nighttime rain shower. The next door neighbor’s snoring… Okay, this is when I wake up from this daydream. Literally, because a man only has to sigh a little too loud in his sleep and he gets a poke from me. And that becomes a bit difficult when the snoring subject is two canvases away.

So I stick to the familiar plastic and relatively soundproof walls. Always including my lifesavers: earplugs. Also works very well against buzzing mosquitoes and sighing and snoring men. And crying children? You can (unfortunately) just hear it through it.

This article appears in Kek Mama 08-2022.

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