Given that even when you consider just the issue of "wild-camping" (yet to be legally defined) in fully self-contained motorhomes, there will be as many yes/no opinions as there are motorhome owners, so I suspect a topic like this is barely worth the expenditure of the electrons needed to post it. A very few countries have written law that specifically allow a particular pursuit and a similarly small number specifically disallow it. The majority either don't have national or even any laws, or like Australia, have several layers of government and land control and ownership - Federal, State and local government, freehold, leasehold, Aboriginal title - and within each of these, multiple layers each with different policies on such use and each with dramatically different responses to infractions, so that it just isn't possible to come up with an all-encompassing rule that is of any use to the traveller. Some like France have very specific laws relating to very specific sectors of the traveling public. For instance the official French Aires for Camping Cars are just for camping cars (motorhomes) and even cars and caravans (travel trailers) are not permitted, let alone rooftop tents or ground tents. Everyone else is expected to use official campgrounds. In Iceland, almost every square inch of land is privately owned and there are no road reserves as such so theoretically any camping activity requires permission, but we have wildcamped - meaning parked overnight in a motorhome - for around 60 nights all over with no issues.

All that often happens is each travellers personal opinion gets promoted as law on the basis that "I did it and got away with it so everyone else can too"

We have been moved on 4 times in 10 years of full-time motorhoming despite boondocking considerably more than 50% of nights - once in Morocco by corrupt police moonlighting for the local RV park owner, once by a fisheries officer in Montana because we were parked in a disused fishing reserve and a local reported us, and twice in Turkey by very pleasant and helpful security forces because they were worried about our safety along the eastern border.

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Tony
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