Poland: Warsaw-Poznań
Germany: Berlin-Lubeck-Hamburg-Bremen
Netherlands: Utrecht
Belgium: Antwerp-Brussels
France: Marne-la-Vallee (aka Disney)-Paris-Dijon
Switzerland: Lausanne-Interlaken
Germany: Black Forest Baden Baden- Dresden
It seems like a shit ton of planning would be needed for this trip. Not the case. If we had been alone in our camper it would have been a breeze. We took my 82 year old father in law so had to plan in some hotels and close by stopping places to camp which was an added complexity. Plus we got a dog and travelling with a puppy requires a little more organisation. In general though, having internet on the phones and not getting cut with going over the data plan (welcome to Polish phone contracts) was the biggest logistic issue.
The Park4Night app is 100% the most required app across Europe for anyone camping or RV-ing. You can see free parking places, local options for overnight, local campsites. Love this app and it makes travel here so low planning- we looked for spots in the morning when we knew where we would be later. Even for Disney we found free local parking where campsites were still under covid restrictions or shut.
Of all the places we went to Lubeck was hands down the most impressive and unexpected. I highly recommend booking a boat trip in advance as they were fully booked when we got there. What a fantastic little town, so much history, amazing architecture, beautiful restaurants on the river. Parking was tricky as RVs are not so welcome in the small streets but at the end of the Main Street there was RV parking albeit at a short walk back to town.
For the other locations the architecture in Dresden and Bremen was breathtaking. Dijon was old French style town and a great boeuf bourguignon area. Lausanne and Lake Geneva were stunning and I wish we had more time to go further around the lake to Vevey and beyond. Interlaken was slightly flooded from the recent rain, our campsite was open but the lake water was lapping at their static homes and the rain was still falling.
In Dresden I was worried that we arrived on Sunday so no shops open and we were out of food. As luck would have it a van laden with bread and cakes showed up at 6am right in the parking lot where we and a bunch of other RVs were stopped. Happy days!
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