If covid restrictions carry on easing, then t'other side of the Channel is definitely (and traditionally) more welcoming than the UK.
You
can still wildcamp in large parts of the UK, but the pandemic combined with a rapid rise in camper/moho popularity the last two years is a double whammy. Things have changed, as Jim (maingate) has already pointed out.
Potential parking problems not necessarily restricted to how big or small your camper is either.
Restrictions on the 'freedom' to drive where you want and park up overnight in a camper/moho have definitely increased since the pandemic, and especially so in tourist honeyspots.
CamPRA have been doing a grand job trying to persuade UK councils the length and breadth to accommodate and welcome campervans
outside of official campsites, but it's a long, hard slog going up against entrenched attitudes and ignorance.
I don't want to travel somewhere wondering if there's going to be aggro with locals, or local officialdom, neither would I want to pay well over the odds to stay in an "official" spot, whether that be campsite or a public carpark.
Prefer to go where people easily accept mohos and campers parking up without batting an eyelid, because it's accepted as the norm. Where you are actually welcomed, not vilified or treated with suspicion. I don't want to be 'herded' into a designated area and then stung by badly thought out, 'profiteering' parking charges dreamt up by local UK councils who often don't show a great deal of imagination or forethought.
Europe it will have to be
