staying closer to what I used to experience driving the old Volkswagen Microbus. But it was an entirely different experience.

The murals are perfect, with dancing flower-headed fertility goddesses, hearts, peace symbols, everything a proper hippie van requires ... G30 and a genuine Volkswagen (a Vanagon, unfortunately ...

This year it is the turn of the ‘Split Screen’ Volkswagen Type 2 ... at home in campervan form on a hippie encampment or family holiday camp, as a delivery van, or even as a race car transporter.

The Travel Show marks 75 years of the van that became a symbol of freedom and independence when it was adopted by the hippie generation: the VW Transporter, which later became the Camper or Kombi.