
WILD CAMPING ๐ซ๐ท France
To start with, wild camping ๐๏ธ in Franceย is all together easier than wild camping in Spain. By a country-mile!
Not at one point did I feel I needed to stealth camp. Some locations I was fairly visible, like a canal or by a lake ๐ฃ! It just seems widely accepted! I would still try and make myself as undetected as possible, preferably in a wooded enclosure.
I love the protective feel of a canopy above. I particular like pineย ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ forests. The ground is soft, and there’s always a convenient place to hang things!
Fortunately, the weatherย ๐ฅ๏ธ on the whole was dry for most of my wild camping. I only had two wet starts. Ending a day wet is fine, starting a day wet is altogether another thing!
Access to drinking water is excellent, as most, if not all towns and villages have a stand-pipe ๐ฐ or drinking fountain. I found many streams I could drink from after dropping in a chlorine tab (in my water bottle and not the stream!). Nearly everywhere will have a bakery. Usually they’ll shut by late morning, then open up again from 4 ish onwards till mid-evening. European times! One small hamlet didn’t have a bakery, but it did have a baguette vending machine ๐ฅ!
France is a must for wild camping ๐๏ธ and cycling ๐ตโโ๏ธ Vive le France ๐ซ๐ท
Since the continuous rain up through central France ๐ง my Samsung EX1 camera has given up the ghost. Not that I got it out when it was raining, it’s just the amount of moisture in the air. So photos are now solely taken with a Nokia Lumia 720 phone ๐ถ