Delft

Amsterdam, for the moment puts a sour taste in our mouths and we wanted a change of scenery. But Delft wasn’t it. We just drove there to spend the night on our way to Belgium. This was our first free camping night. Julie originally wanted to park in an Ikea parking lot. I didn’t. The Ikea building was under-construction, on a very busy road and its parking area was not much bigger than a plaza’s. And I couldn’t park the camper. So off we went to search for another spot. I found one near a dead-end road, across from an office building. To my credit, there was a parking sign, but it was meant for its employees across the road. We had no issues at this spot, but when the staff started arriving for work in the morning, I said it was time to go. On our first free-camping night I learnt that the Benelux region (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) frowns on free-camping so much that they give fines on the spot and basically every other country it’s against the law, but they don’t really care. France being the most lenient has special parking areas for free-campers. So it was then that we decided not to free camp again in this region of Europe.