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Bumble Campers History – Where it all began
Bumble Campers started back in 2012, inspired by a love of travelling, exploring and the freedom of smaller campervans.
What began as an idea for making campervan adventures more affordable has grown into years of Bumbleabouts, camper conversions, rentals, road trips and plenty of bright yellow vans along the way.
This page is our little corner of the website for looking back at some of those moments.
Spotlight on Bumble Campers
When Bumble was celebrating its 10th birthday, Out & About Live caught up with Bumble Campers founder James Kelly to talk about how Bumble began and how things had changed during the first decade.
From the Out & About Live Spotlight on Bumble Campers.
The story goes right back to a campervan trip around Australia that helped spark the idea for Bumble Campers.
From the early days of affordable Toyota camper conversions, through to importing vehicles from Japan and developing the Bumble range, quite a lot happened during those first ten years.
Ten European countries in just nine days.
Ten countries in nine days
There have been plenty of Bumbleabouts along the way too.
When asked about memorable campervan trips, James mentioned adventures around Australia, New Zealand and California’s Big Sur — along with one particularly ambitious Bumble trip through 10 European countries in just nine days.
We suspect there are a few stories behind that one.
Read the original article →More from the archive
We’ve been doing this since 2012, so there’s plenty more buried in the Bumble archives.
Old Bumbleabouts, early camper conversions, press features, forgotten photos and a few things that make us wonder what we were thinking…
We’ll be adding more here.
