Just found a forum on this website discussing cycling from London to Rome, I’ll add my thoughts once I’ve registered with them. One guy seems to be very anti-camping which in my humble opinion is bizarre. I would have thought that anyone who relishes the freedom of cycling over that kind of distance would also relish the prospect of camping, especially when you are passing through some of the most camper-friendly countries in the World… Chacun à son goût (as I never say in my French lessons).