Stress Free and Relaxing Free Camping

We like towns and cities where we can park for free and where we can open our windows and door to get air circulation going in our small home and it would seem ok to do so.

We would also like to enjoy fresh air (sea air preferably) and beautiful views of the sea or mountains or both.

We also need internet connection preferably free wifi.  Paid internet connection is Euros 20 per day which we do not like to pay.

RVers also need to use public washrooms to avoid using our RV's toilet for number two.


So after filling our tanks with diesel and water from gasoline stations and hoarding as much food as our very small refrigerator can take (we have plenty of cupboard/cabinet space for canned goods), we are set to go and find the perfect free camping spot.


We have learned that it is not possible to get all our needs in one spot.  We are happy to travel back and forth between two places to satisfy our needs.

 For example:  In Kiel, Germany, we strongly like the view of the Baltic Sea, the fresh air, the free parking right there on the sea wall and marina and the seemingly friendly people of Kiel.  We slept there 6 nights and for our internet and washroom facilities, we travel about 6 kms each way to the CittiPark Mall everyday and at the end of the day, we go back to our favorite spot with sea view and spend the night.  We liked Kiel so much, we stayed there 6 nights which was our longest stay in any town/city ever, so far.

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Europe Part 1 - Four Thousand Kms. In Two Months

June 25, 2011 marked our second month RVing in Europe.  My husband and I started our journey in Gazoldo degli Ippolitti, Mantova, Italy on April 25 and to complete our Europe Part 1, we decided to go back before heading on to Europe Part 2.  We spent a few days in my niece's home and on July 1, we left again with a determination to see Scandinavian countries.

We have travelled 4014 kms in two months, visiting the many communes, towns and cities of Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany and France.  We have seen several world famous lakes and rivers and the deep blue seas of the Mediterranean in the French and Italian rivieras.

As RVers, our primary concern is our personal safety due to the fact that we are free or wild campers.   Going to private campsites would cost us Euros600 easily per month and to avoid this cost, a lot of long time RVers, as per my research, choose to not pay and go wild camping.  As wild campers, we have parked and slept in different sorts of places like mall parking lot, McDonalds parking, street parking and big supermarkets parking like ELeclerc, Casino, Carrefour and Auchan.  We are glad to report that we were safe the whole time, no incidents of break-in whatsoever.

It was a beautiful and wonderful two months RVing experience in Europe.