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Why pay thousands of euros for a long journey when you can stay at a campsite twenty minutes from home for much less money? Frank Lammers suggests this in the Omroep Brabant podcast ‘Ni Na Lammers Listening’: “We went to Roggel every year!”
Frank Lammers is on holiday and therefore has plenty of time to think back to those ‘good old’ holidays from his youth. “I remember the time when we went to Roggel every year. To the Leistert campsite. I think it was twenty minutes from our home, because then our mother could still do the laundry at home,” Frank recalls in the podcast, which he makes together with Nina van den Broek for Omroep Brabant.
“You don’t have to go to Greece for three weeks or take a tour through South Africa,” says Frank. “Camping de Leistert is also really nice. I was very happy as a child. No swimming paradise, but one-pan dishes on a gas stove and cans of Smac. We ate homemade ice cream from ranja. That was a delicious ice cream!”
We have become spoiled over the years when it comes to holidays, says Frank. “We later went to Germany and once to Switzerland. It was already an ultimate luxury if we went by car to an apartment that was much too small. But that has grown to mean that everyone has to be able to go to the Dominican Republic or Costa Rica, otherwise we are no longer satisfied.”
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The podcast explores the A.D cited, which shows that for two-thirds of Dutch people it is a financial challenge to go on holiday in the middle of the summer.
“The luxury perspective has changed. And I think it’s really bad when people can’t afford a holiday, but there are plenty of places where you can still go on holiday and where it is affordable,” says Frank. “You can always come up with something. You can camp for free in Sweden, so why don’t you go there?”
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We have become too spoiled with distant and expensive vacations.
