“I think the people who want to go camping are prepared for all weather. We have seen kids running around absolutely covered in mud and they just love it,” says Wez Pollington. Health and safetyCamping fits well into a Covid-19 world, according to Whitfield and Pollington. Health and safety signs telling campers to keep washing their hands and “keep smiling” dot the glamping site, though Willowbrook prefers not to use the HSE’s stark yellow and black design. Willowbrook opened little more than a year ago as an upgraded glamping site and before Covid-19 struck it had expected business would rise significantly on the back of Fáilte Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands campaign.

Source: The Irish Times July 08, 2020 14:41 UTC