Sara Davies

The millionaire joined Robson Green in County Durham during this evening's instalment of his Weekend Escapes show on BBC2.

I'm so pleased you've done this show so that we get to show the rest of the country how beautiful it is." She added: "And just because I can afford to take my kids on amazing holidays, doesn't mean I want to do that. And then all of the next summer we would holiday in the camper van that my dad had built. She continued: "The North East is beautiful. to which Sara replied: "So when I was younger we couldn't have afforded to go abroad. "So my dad would spend that winter getting an old caravan from the tip, and he'd retrofit the caravan into the van. It'll have done its 200,000 miles or whatever. "Because I want them to grow up with the same values that I grew up with." "My dad had a transport company, so he had three or four vans - and every summer, what would happen is one of the vans would get to the end of its working life. [County Durham](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/all-about/county-durham)-born entrepreneur [Sara Davies](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/all-about/dragons-den) revealed that her family couldn't afford to go on holidays abroad when she was growing up, so they would opt for [North East staycations](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/all-about/county-durham) instead. [Robson Green](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/all-about/robson-green) on tonight's instalment of his [BBC2 hit show Weekend Escapes](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/all-about/bbc), the 38-year-old detailed what life was like growing up in the region, dubbing [County Durham](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/all-about/county-durham) and its surrounding areas 'beautiful'. Robson asked: "So when you were growing up, did you do the staycations or did you do the package holidays?"