I too love the notion of people being free to travel and stop for the night and park their caravans in safe locations as long as they respect the enviroment and other folks around...

Alas this isnt the case with the type of travellers one encounters in the London area. They appear to supplement their state handouts by a combination of "Fly Tipping" (Illegal dumping of builders refuse and anything else that they can extract payment for.

I recently passed a cluster of illegaly parked large expensive looking caravans with portable satelite television dishes outside blocking a lanscaped pathway in my part of London...they had only been there for a day and there was already piles of builders refuse everywhere, some of the most scary and dirty looking dogs you could ever come across and several small children running around looking every bit like Dickensian children of the Jago...The children were as dirty looking as the dogs and can you believe it reeked of cider.

These people were not the qaint mythical Romany folk one hears about,but I've never seen in London,or the Gypsy musicians of Belguim and France.

These folks are nothing more than verminous malevoelant illiterate urban terrorists in caravans,who if only they knew how to respect others would have a lot less trouble finding anywhere to pitch camp.

Please dont try to romanticise people who bring blight to every where they stop..