Rochefort

There was a dirt cheap campsite here we were going to stay at, but it was going under extensive reconstruction and we found ourselves with out a place to park our van for the night. We saw a small parking lot that had one camper van in it, so we decided to park there and go have a look around. We made our way to the tourist office to collect information on the surrounding area and to see if they have the internet. Finding places with internet has been very difficult lately, so sorry for any delays. After that we walked back to the camper and leafed through the campsite section in the book we just picked up at the tourist office. Most campsites were too expensive for us, so we made a decision to try and free camp in the parking lot that night. We weren’t alone in this ambition, we found 5 others with us come morning time. Julie said she was woken up at night hearing the other campers having a conversation with the cops. According to Julie the jist of it was they wanted to know what we were all doing there. To which the other campervan owners replied that the campsite we had planned to stay at was closed, we had nowhere else to go and that we would be gone by 9am. The cops seemed o.k. with this answer and moved on. Now, I thought I made a huge mistake when we parked that night. I set the fridge up to keep cool while we drive, but didn’t switch it back to run on the propane when we are stopped. We ended up losing power to all our lights and the tap on our sink. I was not looking forward to getting a boost come the morning. But luckily the car started up fine. It does have two batteries, one I now know is just to start the engine, and the other to run everything else (Pim at BW’s didn’t know for sure at the time that we bought the camper).