Owning a vehicle in France, buying and keeping, Insuring, Driving licence issues, etc.Probably not so bad in a coachbuilt motorhome costing as much as a house but I speak from experience temporarily living in a lwb Ford Transit.
Camping Cars
-
Hotrodder
- Posts: 2335
- Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:31 pm
- Location: Brittany 22
Camping Cars
Unlike the UK where anyone trying to overnight anywhere apart from a registered site or private property will be told to move on and treated like some sort of vagrant.
Probably not so bad in a coachbuilt motorhome costing as much as a house but I speak from experience temporarily living in a lwb Ford Transit.
Probably not so bad in a coachbuilt motorhome costing as much as a house but I speak from experience temporarily living in a lwb Ford Transit.
Humanity landed on the moon over fifty years ago but it seems too much to ask for a reliable telephone/internet service in rural France.
-
Nomoss
- Posts: 503
- Joined: Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:35 am
- Location: le Minervois
Camping Cars
A tight-fisted Welsh acquaintance who visited us in a camping van a year or so back told us he overnighted in free locations he found through a new website.
He described his previous night's stop, which turned out to be a small picnic spot by the Canal du Midi, where we used to stop for a short break for a beer and a sandwich on our way home from shopping trips.
I say "used to", as since shortly after he found the spot it has been packed out with camper vans, impossible to get to the single table and benches, and the small litter bins are overflowing.
Other spots nearby on the website are on private property, and since they have been listed the owners have had to block any access, including informal ones, with large rocks, as the ground was getting chewed up by traffic, especially muddy sites near rivers.
On the edge of the étang near us, small purpose built sites for overnight stops, which had waste disposal facilities, have been shut down and blocked off with large rocks, and all the parking areas nearby have height restricting bars, presumably because they were being abused.
He described his previous night's stop, which turned out to be a small picnic spot by the Canal du Midi, where we used to stop for a short break for a beer and a sandwich on our way home from shopping trips.
I say "used to", as since shortly after he found the spot it has been packed out with camper vans, impossible to get to the single table and benches, and the small litter bins are overflowing.
Other spots nearby on the website are on private property, and since they have been listed the owners have had to block any access, including informal ones, with large rocks, as the ground was getting chewed up by traffic, especially muddy sites near rivers.
On the edge of the étang near us, small purpose built sites for overnight stops, which had waste disposal facilities, have been shut down and blocked off with large rocks, and all the parking areas nearby have height restricting bars, presumably because they were being abused.