Camping Road Trips France & Germany by Caroline Mills

Camping Road Trips: France & Germany

30 adventures with your campervan, motorhome or tent

Be inspired to take to the road with this personal selection of road trips, whether lone female traveller, single parents, young families and couples of all ages

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It's time to take to the road with this selection of stunning handpicked trips throughout France and Germany. The trips are suitable for campervanners, motorcaravanners, long-distance cyclists, basically anyone on a set of wheels, especially those that like to go camping (although details of finding alternative accommodation are also included).

Whether you're a novice motorcaravanner or experienced road tripper, solo adventurer or family group, these self-guided tours will provide the inspiration to set out and explore - as slowly and leisurely as you like - the less obvious regions of France and Germany. There are routes of all distances, from day/weekend trips of no more than 30 or 40 miles to routes of 1,000 miles and more for those enjoying a longer holiday.

Collectively these routes explore the very best scenery that France and Germany offer - from coastal views and mountains, forests and national parks, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, vineyards, lakesides and riverbanks, islands (including parking up and visiting car-free islands), to pastoral idylls, wilderness and vibrant cities brimming with architectural heritage.

No end of adventures await! Travel the Route Napoleon (France's first ever signposted route following Napoleon's trek through the Alps on his return from exile) or the Bertha Benz Memorial Route (named after the wife of inventor Carl Benz and the first person ever to make a long-distance road trip). Explore the Gorges du Verdon, the grand canyon of France, or visit Dordogne's annual strawberry festival, or walk into Poland along an eight-mile seaside promenade at the seaside resort of Heringsdorf.

Packed with practical advice, tempting photographs and inspirational itineraries, Camping Road Trips: France & Germany is the essential handbook to your European adventure.

For more than 20 years these European camping road trips have been explored either as a lone female or companioned by three young children, most often wild camping. Activities and slow travel adventure on foot and by bike are as much a part of the trip as driving. I aim to inspire all, whether a lone female traveller, young families, single parents or couples of any age that anything is doable.