Delphine and Laurent take over the campsite

The campsite hasn’t always looked like this. Paul and Lucia Palmer opened it in 1989 with six pitches at the end of the lane, and grew it over almost thirty years. By 2017, it had fifty-five.

In August that year, we took over the business. The paper photographed us in front of reception with the former owners and Michel Cambron, mayor of Tournières. That is how the handover happened: on site, between people from the village.

It was the starting point for everything you’ll read below: the label, the guest reviews, the new toilet and shower block, the Tuesday market. Since then, it has always been just the two of us running everything.

La Manche Libre, 10 November 2017. The rest of the article is for subscribers only.