Experiencing time travel

Sarah Wakely has a rockin' good time at Twinwood Vintage Festival, but is baffled by the return of a dashboard warning light

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One of the best things about motorhoming, I think, is the opportunity to take off on a whim - after all, you already have everything you need on board.

But sometimes it's nice to plan something well in advance, which for us was a visit to the annual Twinwood Vintage Festival of Music and Dance, at the former RAF Twinwood in Clapham, Bedfordshire.

We weren't newbies to this festival: our 2025 visit would be our eighth, following a trip every year from 2013 to 2019. Only Covid put a temporary halt to it and, while the festival has since returned, life for us has got in the way since; so we were excited to again enjoy the incredible atmosphere there.

Twinwood is a great place to take a motorhome. It's an old airfield so there are multiple flat areas to pitch up on, and there are numerous (and enormous) camping fields available, all packed with leisure vehicles.

Not only are there on-site facilities, including lots of hot showers, clean Portaloos, a number of electric hookup points, fresh water and grey- and black-water disposal points, there's also a small shop and a coffee/breakfast point.