My request: please tell me everything you can about wild camping! Apart from that....Did you ever request permission to camp in someone's yard? If so, what was the response? Did you use campgrounds? If so, what do they cost?
Oh, and all about your gear, too! Tent, stove....
Haha tell u everything !
we planed so we always ended our nights between villages and cities, but we never walked more then a 200 m from the "trail" and we used a basha (in France) and used the tent more in Italy and Switzerland but we put up the basha as camouflage ^^ it's always nice that people don't know u r there, for me it's easier to relax ^^
Btw allot of boar in France and they are not that afraid of u -.- and we also had a rule that if we found a place that was awesome to camp and it was like 1h before we would break, then we would stop u never know if u would find a good place further on ^^
Worst place we slept where in under a tree on rocks, best place : after Calais overlooking the channel
No we did not people's language skills r quite bad and we only knew Swedish and English so communicating was very difficult ^^
We only used a camping 1 time and that was after Lausanne, but the best is when u find donation rooms,
We tried to live in a room every 9 days to take a shower and wash clothes
Gear:
Tent 2ppl-awesome when cold or rain
Basha/tarp- first time I used it, and now it will always be in my backpack ^^
Stove- used it 2 times, wouldn't bring it again
Camping mat in foam- very happy I didn't bring my inflated on ALLOT OF THORNS and barbedwire
Knife
Vaseline
First aid kit
Needle and fishing wire ( rat ate half my strap on backpack, so I would be screwed if I didn't have it)
Sleeping bag 3 seasons
2 flece
1 pair of pants
3 socks
3 underwear
Waterproof gloves
Rain jacket ultralight north face , great stuff
Bungee cord
Walking stick ,feels nice if dogs are scary
1spoon
3 freezedryed emergency rations
Solar panel charger
My friend had also a iPad with him, that one was priceless
Regretted not bringing a waterproof bag ( instead of plastic bag ^^) and also instead of hiking shoes I would have taken boots only because it's way way more waterproof instead of gortex^^
And u can save maps on Google and still use gap even though u r phone is in flight mode