When British comedian Johnny Vegas bought an old Maltese bus online after having a few drinks, he was not prepared for the saga of shipping the bus from Malta to the UK. Vegas is a British comedian, actor and writer, and is best known for his stand-ups, angry comedic rants and surreal humour on stage. “The sports car thing is a bit ‘done’, isn’t it? So I bought a knackered old bus and converted it for glamping,” the 50 year old comedian told Radio Times, a British weekly magazine. 'Glamping', an amalgamation of 'glamour' and 'camping', describes a form of amenity-rich camping that seeks to replicate many home comforts. After one too many pints, Vegas stumbled across an old traditional yellow Maltese bus being sold on online auction site Ebay. He decided to bid for the bus, little knowing that buying the bus would also include him buying a flight ticket to Malta. “Johnny always loved the look of the Maltese buses, so when he saw one on Ebay back in 2019, he decided to bid for it,” Vegas’s assistant Beverley Dixon told Times of Malta. “He purchased it from an Australian couple who owned a B&B in Malta. They kept the bus in storage for two years, and before emigrating back to...
