The beauty of the camping vacation is the enduring feeling of being on site. Air travel is very insular that way, I feel like I'm in the same place right up until I get off the plane, but when you're on the road it's a whole different feeling and more authentic in a sense. It's tiresome if you have to go far to get there, but once you cross the border into where you're going there is a real sense of expectation that gradually bears out. And you can stop anywhere you want along the way.

Locations of interest:

• Wien (classical concert)
• Verona (late night outdoor opera)
  Camping right near Lago di Garda - a summer camping hotspot
• La Spezia (all day visit to the pictoresque villages in Cinque Terre national park)
• Genova (city walk and a visit to Europe's largest aquarium/oceanography museum)
• San Remo (walk along the promenade and swimming at the beach)
• Monaco (city walk, swimming at the beach)
• Nice (walk along the promenade, swimming)
• Cannes (walk along the promenade)
• Ramatuelle by St. Tropez
  Camping at the unbeatable Les Tournels
• St. Tropez (city walk)
• Marseille (city walk)
  Camping in Aix-en-Provence - a nice town in itself
• Les Baux-de-Provence (a splendid ancient castle)
• Orange (the best preserved Roman theater in Europe)
• Geneve (CERN museum, city walk)
• Lausanne (city walk)
• Bern (Einestein museum)
• Zurich (natural earth museum and a robotics museum)
• Munich (Deutches museum - world's largest museum of science and technology)

And that's a way to spend three weeks.