Owning a Campervan in the UK

Belgium to Denmark.

20th June 2007, Wednesday. Calais. We spent the night on the canal side with 7 other campervans, ignoring the beachfront parking area which now charges €4 per night . By flying our Australian flag we induced three other campervanners to come and talk to us. People seem more relaxed and friendly here in France, even the British, one of whom agreed wholeheartedly that France is campervan heaven and Britain is campervan hell. The motorway from Calais to Brugge is not a toll way as are many French motorways, it bypasses a lot of congested areas and this time we decided to use it to travel to Brugge. The signage can be a bit confusing but the free French motorways are signed with BLUE signs and the toll ways marked "Payant" or "Paege" have GREEN signage, which is different to some other European countries. It proved far quicker than the very slow roads through the congested seaside towns, which we had seen in 2004 and had no desire to see again.

We stopped at the LIDL in Calais, and again at the Carrefour in Brugge and it was noticeable that things are generally more expensive in Belgium than France. Again France wins in the value for money and campervan friendly stakes.

Brugge used to have a free camper park, but no more. It has apparently been leased out to some private company called Interparking, who propose to charge €40.00 per 24 hours or €20.00 for the night to park. The area was closed pending final work, and about ten vans were parked outside along the road, for free of course. They had stayed overnight undisturbed, although I imagine when the overpriced parking area is open soon that people will be hassled about parking outside on the road.

What fools the burghers of Brugge must be, do they think people will pay that much to park, the greedy avaricious bastards must think like Jews like Shylock, rubbing their filthy hands with glee at the thought of the riches to come. I hope the stupid bastards loose all their investment, as anyone who pays that much to park in Brugge has to be a fool, of the type soon parted from his money. We spoke to several of the campervanners parked nearby, no one would pay such fees, and all intended to not visit Brugge again, at least not if they could not find a free parking place nearby.

One of the really good points about Belgium is the cycle paths along almost all roads. You can safely ride almost anywhere, and the drivers respect cyclists. Traffic is much less dense than England, and there isn't such a rush everywhere.

Europeans have a far superior lifestyle to the English, everything is more relaxed, there are not speed and spy cameras everywhere. It isn't a FINE society, like England, it is a fine society! The parking is far more relaxed, you don't have to pay to park in many areas, and the towns and roads are not so congested. It isn't any wonder that you see lots of British campervans in Europe, particularly in the south of France,Spain and Portugal, but not many European campervans in England. Heaven and Hell, it's that clear cut, and my overall impression is that it isn't just in the realm of campervans.

No wonder so many British migrated to Australia many years ago. As migrants they are the people we should have continued to encourage, not all the racially incompatible migrants we have, Muslims, too many Asians, and now stone the bloody crows, black Africans, scarcely civilized. The unwanted racial mixing is forced on us by the Jewish/Zionist New World Order, which controls any western government that calls itself "democratic", code speak for the dictatorship of the manipulated majority of media managed imbeciles, who stare mesmerized into the idiot box, and who's cultural highlight is the latest inanity on "Big Brother".

Talk about throwing their control in the face of anyone with enough brain cells left to see the reality of the situation, the very title of the program couldn't be more symbolic, straight out of George Orwell's classic "Nineteen Eighty Four", it just took about twenty years longer than George Orwell anticipated. Guess what Orwell did for a crust before he became a best selling author? He was a "British Intelligence" officer, so from his professional work he knew where things were headed, why, and how, when he wrote the classic book, as supposedly a work of fiction, but in reality a grim foreboding of the world he knew was planned for humanity. The Zionist Jew World Order seeks to destroy the white race, and produce a world of coffee coloured dumbed down serfs, ruled by a Zionist/Jewish global elite, with a small wealthy upper class supported by para-military police, ruling over the new class of serfs, the goyim, regarded as no more than cattle in the Talmud. The New Feudalism is coming to a community near YOU, soon! Hitler was RIGHT!

"It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was wanted and provoked solely by international statesmen either of Jewish Origin or working for Jewish interests. Nor had I ever wished that after the appalling first World War, there would ever be a second against either England or America." - Adolph Hitler - final political testament in his will.

What's the Talmud?? If you don't know, you need to find out. You only have to ask, - via an internet search. I'll bet you find it rather enlightening, to say the least!

You are wondering what all this is about? Well you need to do a bit of research my friend, the reality of the world has left you, and the vast majority of your deluded contemporaries, behind for about the last sixty odd years, while you were watching all those WW2 movies about those nasty Germans, and that awful Mr Hitler, seeking to rule the world, and murder all those six million poor Jews, reality was turned upside down, truth turned inside out. The wolf was in sheep's clothing, hero and villain were reversed in their roles, "history", was written by the victors. The real victors were not the Allies, who were goaded into fighting a war for no reason of any importance to themselves, dupes made to be the cats paws of international Jewry.

The victors were the real aggressors, who declared war on Germany on March 24th 1933 as reported in the London Daily Express, and half of Europe was sold into fifty years of communist slavery. Truth is stranger than fiction said a sage! Not only that, but the truth is almost the exact mirror image of the artificial reality created by the propagandists, and echoed ceaselessly by the Zionist-Jewish owned mass media of the twentieth century.

Now the masses think "Big Brother" is reality, and can no longer tell truth from fiction.

21st June, 2007, Thursday. Brugge. We parked free along the road outside the overpriced parking area along with lots of other campervans. In the morning we cycled into the centre of the old town to explore. The Fritte man in the Market Square is now a migrant, and the mayonnaise isn't as mustardy! The town is still a nice place to visit, but you will need to find a new place to park as the old official camper place is going to charge so much it is absurd. We cycled into town for Fritties and lookwurst. A €2.00 serve of Fritties would do two people with a lookwurst (sausage) (€1.40) each. We had a slightly smaller €1.75 serve of fritties each and it was too much really. The traditional sauce is a mustard mayonnaise, but many other flavors are also now offered.

22nd June, 2007, Friday. Moerbrugge. We moved to a quieter location about 5km from the centre of town, along side a canal at a small parking area for a nature reserve. Drove to Antwerp and checked out the parking along the river. Not at all an attractive area and the parking is chaotic. We decided not to stay as Antwerp is one of those towns that is just too big to be campervan friendly, and we drove on to Lier.

It was raining much of the day so we decided to move on, even though there were nice cycle paths along the canal.

Diesel at a Jet station was €0.98 a liter, considerably cheaper than in France.

23rd June, 2007, Saturday. Lier Belgium. They have moved the free campervan parking to a new location on the edge of town. The dumpsite is payant but it is one on those with a sliding steel shutter over the sewer drain, which was jammed open, so we could use it free too.

Unfortunately the campervan parking is not a separate area but part of a large parking area in front of the Youth Centre, which means in can be rather noisy some nights, as it was last night. About seven campervans shared the area with us. It is another example of stupid inconsiderate planning to put a new camper park in such a location. Some towns do it well, but many show no proper understanding of what is needed to have a nice attractive quiet area handy to the town for campervans to stay in.

After a walk into town in the morning it rained most of the day, preventing us going cycling along the canals. Not wanting to spend another noisy night, we went in search of a quieter location and with the aid of satellite photos on our computer mapping system selected an area beside a canal a couple of kilometers out of town. Exploration soon found a canal side parking area used by fishermen where we were able to settle for a quiet night.

There was a market held in town with lots of food and clothing mainly, but also a few stalls selling variety goods. Many stalls have ingeniously designed special vehicles which open up with folding display counters and awnings. Notable was the fact that nothing seemed particularly cheap, only the fruit and vegetables seemed comparable with supermarket prices. Cheeses, available in a profusion of varieties seemed particularly expensive with most varieties being between 15 and 30 Euros per kilogram. This is considerably more expensive than good cheese in supermarkets, but there was no shortage of customers. It seems to me that the Belgians really enjoy traditional markets, and judging from the large obviously expensive special vehicles used by many vendors, it must be quite a profitable business. No doubt they travel around to a different town each day to get the best return on their vehicles.

Overall prices of most items except motor fuel are higher in Belgium than in France, particularly for wine and beer. Although Belgium prides itself on the range of beers, they are two to three times the price of beer in Germany or France. Supermarket food is also marginally more expensive than France, probably reflecting the fewer numbers of large supermarket chains competing. We have seen several large Carrefour stores, but most of the other supermarket chains have been smaller establishments

24th June,2007, Sunday. Lier Belgium. The move to the canal provided us with a good nights sleep. After a short morning ride around Lier and along the canals it started raining again. We set off eastward for Germany and thence to head north to Denmark.

25th June, 2007, Monday. Germany. We stopped overnight in a forest walkers parking area where we had also stopped in 2004. Excellent roads in Germany, smooth quiet surface.

26th June, 2007, Tuesday. Haltern Germany. A free aire de services, almost in the French style. Free parking and dumpsite, but 1 Euro for water or electricity. Rain intermittent all day. We managed a walk into town and to the lake, but it was too wet to go cycling despite the presence of numerous excellent cycle paths.

27th June, 2007, Wednesday. Haltern Germany. Sun at last, but still cold and windy. We move on. Cold and raining again, very unseasonable weather, so much so we decide to check the weather reports on the Internet and are soon able to get another wireless connection in a small German town. The cold wet weather is all over Europe, so it isn't just in this area and there isn't much point in going south. Last year it was like this in early April and it was considered unseasonably cold, now almost into mid summer and it is almost as bad.

We pass some canals with nice cycle paths, but the weather is too bad to make use of them. Later we decide to aim for another canal to perhaps find a place to stop for the night and ride along the canal tomorrow. When we get there, there aren't any cycle paths, the only canal in Germany we have seen without them! We note a number of rest areas along the A1 motorway where you could stop for the night, and find water available at one with temporary toilets in a sort of shipping container. The newer motorway rest area toilets have automatic hand spray washers and are not suitable to get water at, but some of the older ones are OK.

We find Bio-diesel for €1.059 per liter about ten cents cheaper than ordinary diesel in Germany, which is dearer than in Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg (the cheapest) of France, so it is always worth filling up before entering Germany.

The Northern German countryside is very green and forested, but also flat, with a lot of farmland, a pleasant area but not one for spectacular scenery. Stopping places are generally plentiful, with good rest areas along the main roads and motorways. There are also many small forest parking areas for walkers that can be used for overnight stops, and a few of the towns are starting to provide some dedicated motor home parking, even the occasional dumpsite and water. Germany is infinitely more campervan friendly than England, but it is still a far cry from the excellent facilities for motor homes found all over France. The German minor roads are excellent, vastly superior to the outmoded narrow lanes of England. We still have scratches on our windows from overhanging tree branches in the English country lanes. Driving is just so much more pleasurable in Europe than in England, and we haven't seen any cruising homosexuals or hoons here either. England really is going to the dogs, or the poofs, or the hoons, take your pick.

Located accurately from one of our internet databases the small town of Brake has two free campervan dedicated places, in the central car park.

No dumpsite, no water, but we stay the night quietly in company with a German campervan. Germany does not have its act together in providing campervan facilities like France does. We have often thought that whoever designed this place has never owned a campervan, when observing the few dedicated campervan "stellplatz" that we have come across in Germany.

Come on Germany, the Frogs are leaving you for dead in the campervan facilities race!

We continued north east towards Hamburg. Green and verdant country, but of rather monotonous landscape form. To cross the Elbe River we have to go in to Hamburg and under the river via the Elbe tunnel. Nearing the outskirts of Hamburg a traffic jam induced us to return a few kilometers to Neukloster to a parking area we had passed to wait out the night.

We stopped at a Netto Supermarket and noted that it had a much better range of goods for sale than the usual Aldi store. Prices were comparable to Aldi. We had found some Aldi's to have a poor range of fresh fruit and vegetables, along with the usually very restricted range of other goods. Large supermarkets are a rarity in Germany, so the Netto was a pleasant surprise.

There must be some obscure reason why the German food retailing market has developed so differently to the rest of Europe, the lack of many large supermarkets in Germany is only paralleled in Italy, and this leads me to suspect that it is somehow traceable back to the end of WW2, when Germany and Italy were the defeated parties. I know that the English Tesco supermarket group is principally Jewish owned, and they have been opening supermarkets in eastern europe, in Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary, as we observed in our 2006 tour, but they have no stores in Germany, that we are aware of. Perhaps there is a clue here, that many of the other big supermarket chains operating in France and Spain are also Jew controlled, and have not yet wanted to invest in Germany. I can't imagine why though, the German government is just as much subservient to the international Jews now as any other so called democratic state in the European Union, as is in fact the EU itself, being a major plank in the platform of the New (Jew) World Order, which International Jewry controls.

29th June, 2007, Friday. Neukloster Germany. The weather shows some early sign of improving at last, but later in the day more rain and strong winds. Bypassing most of Hamburg via the tunnel under the Elbe River, we head north along the coast, more boring flat farmland.

Northern Germany really is rather uninteresting landscape, and I know why we never bothered with it in our 2000 tour. I am beginning to fear that most of Denmark will be much the same, boring! I would advise the international campervan tourist not to bother at all with the flat plains of the northern part of Germany. Unfortunately they get in the way if you want to get to Denmark, so here I advise to use the autobahns for a quicker trip. I have deliberately not done so exclusively, although we have used sections for convenience, particularly to bypass urban areas, so that I would know something of the area.

If you have not travelled extensively by road in Europe, you might want to explore here, but unless you have some particular destination or interest, my advice is to pass through quickly, there are far more interesting parts of Germany in the south, and other parts of Europe to spend your time at a leisurely pace.

There are excellent cycle paths along almost every road and canal, but the inclement weather has militated against us making much use of them, so perhaps I'm being a bit harsh on the area. We have seen a few brave cycle tourists laden with baggage battling the elements, with almost no hills it is suitable for such tours, if it would stop raining!

"I am not attacking the Jewish people. But I am saying that the leaders of both the British and the Jewish races, for reasons which are as understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war." - Charles Lindbergh - American aviation pioneer - national hero and congressman - Speech in Desmoins Iowa, September 11, 1941, on American involvement in WW2.

30th June, 2007, Saturday. Hemmingstedt, Germany. We stopped in a rest area, fairly close to the road as there are few good rest areas along highway 5, which follows the coast north from Itzehoe to the Danish border. Mistake! Like all german roads it has a busy start to the day from about 4AM and we found it a noisy location in the early morning disturbing sleep. I had thought it may be quiet as there was not much traffic when we stopped for the evening. You should avoid any German roadside rest area on a "red road" unless it enables you to get well off the road with some acoustic shelter from either thick trees or an earthen mound.

The presence of hundreds of wind powered electricity generators attested to the fact that this is frequently a very windy area, and the inclement weather lately has not helped our enjoyment of our tour through northern Germany so far.

The a better place to stop would be in Elmshorn (pictured left) which has a small free parking area for campervans beside the canal which would be quiet, or in Neibull where there is a parking area set aside for campervans, which appears to be free. There is a pay dumpsite and water.

Signs in the town point the way, but it is not well signed from the highway. This is common in Germany, signage to the few mediocre campervan "stellplatz" we have come across is often minimal, inadequate from some directions of approach, or incomplete at intermediate points. They use a fairly standard black campervan icon on a white field.

As we proceeded towards Denmark we stopped several times to stock up on supplies and fuel because everything is far more expensive in Denmark, and it is well worth ensuring that you carry as much as possible with you, and confine purchases to essentials such as bread and fresh fruit and vegetables. They still use their own currency in Denmark (2007) so there is the minor hassle of having to exchange money.

The landscape was unchanging as we entered Denmark, flat farmland. Strong westerly winds blew all morning accompanied by rain until the mid afternoon. . We began to see many campervans passing, going south as we came closer to the Danish border, and wondered if they knew something, that we would be better off going in the opposite direction!

There are no border formalities at the frontier, although flags still flutter over the border stations. We headed for Ribe near the west coast of Jutland province, and soon found a parking area on the outskirts of the old town where a number of campervans were parked. Signs stated a maximum 48 hours stay and no camping. Dumpsite next to toilet block and hose taps on the building. Well that's all right, you are not camping if all activity is within the confines of the vehicle, and you do not set up tables and chairs outside etc. Twelve vans spent the night quietly with us.

Denmark.

Scrooge McDuck - Blessed be his illustrious name.