How we build a route

Every route is planned for campers under 3.5 t. That settles the licence — category B — and keeps you clear of heavy-vehicle obligations. At tolls and ferries, though, weight is not the only criterion: France classifies by height, and Norwegian ferries by length. Check the operator's own table rather than assuming the car rate.

A route has eight or nine stops, not twenty. They are chosen to form a coherent line, not a list of sights. Some are stops where you stay, others exist so you are not driving eight hours through nothing — and each one is marked.

At every stop we write three things: what you see, what you do with the camper, and what is free. The third column is the one that matters most often, which is why it is set apart.

Every route has a window. Where that window is narrow — the orcas at Tarifa, the aurora in the north — we say so plainly and build the departure date around it, rather than letting the reader pick the wrong month.

Rules for staying overnight differ from one municipality to the next and they change. We give the national rule and the areas where it is actually enforced.

We do not recommend operators or restaurants we cannot verify, and we keep phone numbers out of the PDF, because they go stale faster than the document does. We do not give prices: they change faster than we can keep them up to date. We say what is paid, the conditions of access and which official source to check; today's rate you check with the operator.

The routes are built from documents: from official sources — road administrations, ferry operators, municipalities, park authorities — not from the field. None has yet been driven end to end by us, and we claim nothing else. That is why readers’ corrections go straight into the document.