My wife and I bought Rolf, our 1976 VW Bay Window Campervan, in 2005 and spent four months travelling across Europe and North Africa. After a range of jobs from the cycling industry to working as a fish and cheese monger, I eventually moved into coffee, helping set up Hermitage Road in Hitchin, later named one of the UK’s top 50 coffee shops by The Independent.

In 2015, I founded Campervan Coffee Co, using Rolf to serve speciality coffee at street food markets while learning to roast on a small machine I’d bought. Today, we supply coffee to cafés, restaurants, businesses and hotels. Our roastery, based in a converted barn just 30 minutes from London and Cambridge, is where we roast, train baristas, and demo espresso machines for partners.