The first wave began in the 1970s, when the economic miracle hit people’s pockets with a vengeance in the form of high wages, flying was not yet taken for granted, and Spain and Italy were distant destinations. The average German with a practical mindset would hook up a camping trailer to the back of their car or go straight for the self-driving accommodation option: the motorhome.
Presumably, German caravan and motorhome-driving holiday nomads were looking for a scapegoat for congested highways when the white wave surged southward over the Brenner Pass at a laborious 80 km/h in the height of summer.
Then flying became increasingly attractive and motorhomes became a thing for enthusiasts for a while, until in the second decade of the new millennium, the environmental impact of flying weighed so heavily on everyone’s conscience that motorhomes regained their former glory.
Motorhomes are back in fashion, but according to a survey, not for the purpose of cross-border understanding within Europe, but mainly for holidays within Germany. People from Hamburg travel to the Bavarian Alpine foothills, those from Stuttgart to the Mecklenburg Lake District, and Berliners simply can’t decide because everything is so beautifully colorful. Vacationing with a motorhome takes a bit of convincing, because it’s not cheaper for vacationers. The maintenance costs are not insignificant, and wild camping has long since disappeared in Germany. The daily rental fee at a campground where the oversized vehicle can be parked competes with the package prices of all-inclusive hotels in faraway countries close to the equator.
Even though a motorhome is a mobile home, you can’t take your home climate with you. But what can help against fluctuating humidity, dry mountain air or the salty North Sea breeze at night if, for example, the traveller is only used to the climate in Cologne city centre? Bed linen that regulates the body’s own microclimate. Such bed linen does exist, and no, it does not come from the laboratories of chemical giants, but from a cultivated plant that humans have been using for tens of thousands of years: common flax. Bettwäsche aus Leinen oder auch Halbleinen besitzt die wunderbare Eigenschaft, Feuchtigkeit und Temperatur während des Schlafs natürlich zu regulieren.
But linen bedding is also a delight to the eye. It’s not just for the traveling motorhome crowd that bedding manufacturers Libeco and Genix offer bedding sets with beautiful motifs, sometimes exotic, sometimes playfully traditional, but always ideal for your own bed on wheels.
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