Stayed at Les Courtilles du Lido a few times myself.
If you should find yourself without accommodation for a night, just park up in the forest in one of the more secluded car parks. Sabots has running water. It's technically not allowed, but as long as you're not littering/being a tit, the police and park rangers don't seem to mind. The police were checking roche aux sabots car park regularly last summer, presumably for the weed smoking chav locals (yes, france has them too) that came through occasionally, though they always seemed to miss them. Didn't mind the climbers camped there at all. And i woke up in another car park one morning to find three park rangers were the only other people about, standing about ten metres from my car and having a chat. I opened my boot, got out my sleeping bag, went off for a piss and said bonjour as i walked past -- they didn't even blink.
2 simple rules for shitting in the forest:if you can't bury it do it far from the pathif you use toilet paper, burn it when its used (obviously making sure you don't set fire to the forest)
Good knowledge guys. Cheers!Clicked on that link and it says the season begins 20th March, what a fluke
Yeah another vote for Grez-sur-Loing, owners were great and speak are english. River was great in the summer for a swim, not sure in March tho!
the problem in font, you are never too far from a path, you walk away from one only to get closer to another, the amount of times I have done this ony to here someone walk past
Nothing beats damp moss anyway, the stuff of kings!!
Planning on stopping in font for a couple of nights on the way further south at the end of June with la family.Which campsite would be best for a family? needs to have some swings/boulangerie walking distance reallyLes Courtilles du Lido looks pretty good.Do they make you wear speedo's in the pool?Ta