My wife and I are both 50 this year and started caravanning when our eldest daughter was just a toddler and is now 17 we started with a 1973 Robin(very very basic) followed by a 1978 piper a 1984 ABI Supreme(leaked like a sieve) a new 1995 Coachman Genius 440/5 a new Coachman Amara 500/5 (1999) and a new 2003 Coachman Amara 520/4 (we like Coachman vans!)we still manage to persuade our daughters to come away in the van with us especially where a mobile phone signal is guaranteed and they can happily text away to the friends they "leave behind " we usually take the van to france each year for a couple of weeks and notice how popular this is becoming especially with younger caravanners. No way do i fit into the pipe and slippers bracket as one of my other hobbies is playing bass guitar in a seventies/eighties covers rock band!