Camp Municipal

In France, there are three types of camping we’ve done – in a rest stop (amazingly well set up for campervans and caravans to stay overnight with full bathrooms and shops, it’s free but you share it with many trucks and traffic all night!); standard van parks with all the usual facilities (except toilet paper or toilet seats, grrr! But that’s another story!) and finally, Camp Municipal. As far as we can tell, these are run by the local council.

We stayed in a Camp Municipal three nights ago at Dange-St-Romain. We knew roughly where we wanted to stay the night and so looked in our book of campgrounds and found this one. The trusty GPS (nicknamed ‘Babette’, she speaks in English with a French accent!!) got us there and this is what we found

The warden spoke basic English, there was no internet, the men’s showers were basically a hose in a small room, but we were in a meadow, by a river, with only two other couples there. We camped under a willow tree and sat on a rug under the tree for our meals. The playground was awesome too! A lovely, lovely place to stay. Cost : 10.20 euros. Memories: priceless.

Karen