What does white goods have to do with camping?

"Wonderful word: pass the time!

Holding them would be the problem.

Because, who is not afraid: where is a stay,

where a finally being in all this?..."

From time to time in our blog the term yogurt pot or white goods is used for the classic camper. - So it may not be surprising that we also sometimes receive a comment from a reader, a reader of our blog. 

This reader has written to us that she finds my comments on the yogurt cup fraction "a real pity, especially that the big ones come off well". - I have answered this as follows:

Certainly a good occasion to think about it. In communication, there is a sender-receiver relationship. In this respect, it is not what the sender thinks and means to express, but how it arrives at the receiver. So I seem to have expressed myself wrongly. - Therefore, first of all, thank you very much for the nice text and the very sympathetic feedback.

I'll try again: Isn't it said that nothing is more constant than change? - In my youth, allotment gardens were considered really, really uncool. Anyone who had one was considered the epitome of bourgeoisie. So I was all the more shocked when, a few years ago, I received an invitation from a trendy architect couple to visit their allotment garden. 

But what I found had little to do with the expected garden gnome cliché. Although some vegetables were still grown, but this was now organic and thus quite hip. No not Klaus Hipp. Whether this is hip, you should decide for yourself.

But what had become of the arbor? A large band of windows brought light into the hut. The walls shone white. Everything looked bright and friendly. Inside, there was now a Bullerjan Free Flow FF17, almost a design icon among fireplaces. For the case that one wanted to stay overnight also times in the winter, thus was provided. Directly in front of the window was a seventies chair. But so much for stuffy, it was a real Eames. And thus a lounge chair, which I consider not only comfortable, but above all very, very cool. The whole cottage was tastefully decorated, with accessories from various vacations of the architect couple. The wide world in an arbor. Even the sheepskin looked pretty cool here. - Instead of TV, there was a small bookshelf with exciting literature. - There was even a small house bar, including a humidor. - You could have moved right in here.

However, since it was summer, they stood outside around a small campfire. There were also two hammocks. But one thing had remained. People still drank beer from bottles. But what had become of the allotment gardeners? Maybe they were masterminds in one way or another after all? It did not remain with this one cool garden. In the environs of Berlin and Cologne, and certainly of Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich, you can now find many cool allotment gardeners. - What was considered stuffy yesterday is hip today.

Can this not also be transferred to the camper world? Of course, there is still the retired couple who first aligns the satellite dish, puts the garden gnome in front of the door and where either the TV or the vacuum cleaner is running. Who spend 4 months wintering on the same campsite. And if it makes them happy, then there you go. - I don't presume to judge, I'm just saying it wouldn't make me happy. But thank God we are not all the same, would be otherwise pretty dull or?

But apparently there are more and more people who dream of a free, an independent life. Who want their vehicle to be just as independent and self-sufficient. - But although the rising registration figures speak a clear language, manufacturers seem to either ignore the signs or deliberately listen away.

In the seventies, too, there were hippies who drove all the way to India in their homemade VW bus. And today there seems to be a new generation of hippies. - Here you go! - But is there only one, i.e. hippie, or the other, i.e. bourgeois? I don't want to believe that. I rather think that many fall back on a classic camper because there is no alternative or only a few alternatives.

And to break another lance, for the white goods, I must admit that I have now met quite a few pretty cool guys among their owners. But mostly these have not started with a white motorhome. Before there was a Bulli, a Lappländer or something else cool. But with increasing age or with the children became just also the demand for space and comfort greater. The heart still beats wild and free, but the alternatives are limited. - So it's not about you big guys, every now and then we would also like to have our own bathroom. - But one thing I knew strangely enough already as a young guy:

"Maybe one day I'll grow up, maybe I'll grow old and gray, but never, never will I grow up".

Hector, by the way, does not seem to have any prejudices. He obviously feels "even" next to a land yacht with dinghies, from Concorde extremely comfortable. As you can see from the Concorde on VW LT basis, even the guys did not start with a Centurion, but also once had a wild heart. - The driver of the Concorde was not only cool, so with motocross machine and so, but above all extremely pretty. - But that's another topic.

The poem "In my wild heart" by Rilke comes to mind. 

"...See, the day slows down, contrary to

that room that takes him to evening:

Rising became standing, and standing becomes laying,

and the willingly lying blurs ..."

We have noticed ourselves how inflexible the market is. Either off the peg or expensive or do-it-yourself. But studies like Hymer's VisionVenture show that things can be different. For example, there will certainly be cool yogurt pots in the future. They just won't be white anymore. And finally, I love yogurt. Without it, my muesli only tastes half as good.

...mountains resting, glorified by stars; -

but time flickers in them, too.

Ah, in my wild heart sleeps

homeless the imperishable."

PS: Small recommendation for those who still have a wild heart, Rilke project, Schönherz & Fleer, Laith Al-Deen:

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