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A comprehensive guide to major leisure cycle routes south of, and including, France's Loire Valley. All major traffic-free and signed touring routes are included with a factfile and description of what to see along the way. Crucially, you will find quality 1:200,000 scale Michelin mapping of all major routes. Background info on such topics as how to take your bike on French trains. Full colour illustrations. Discover: * Euro-Velo 6 which wends its way across the entire width of France on lightly trafficked tracks and roads, using the Loire for much of its length. * A traffic-free route along the Cote d'Azur. * Signed routes in the Alps - many much easier than you might think. * A quality traffic-free route stretching hundreds of miles along the Atlantic coast....and much more. Whether planning a lazy day around the Loire Chateaux or the long-distance trip of a lifetime this guide is both an essential pre-trip planner and an invaluable riders' companion.
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Amongst his many titles Richard Peace is author of the best-selling Ultimate C2C Guide (9781901464177). A former solicitor and teacher of English abroad, he is now a full-time cycle author and journalist. This includes being a regular contributor to the UK's leading general monthly cycling magazine, Cycling Plus. Cycling Southern France is the product of more than two years' riding, research and writing.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This really is the Ultimate cycling guide to southern France. Full of detailed colour route maps and colour photos, it is absolutely ideal for planning and riding a cycle route in the sunshine. The book has 160 pages packed with sensible information about routes, towns and places to visit, together with train access, gradings and website links. Planning a route or just day-dreaming? Either way, this is the Guide.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I recently tried to link three of the long-distance routes in this book together to cycle from Bordeaux to Arles. The first section was great, but the book's assessment of the state of the surfaces was really unreliable! We were supposed to be going along the canal du midi, most of which the book designated 'good quality off-road path' - we got 30 miles outside of toulouse and found the surface deteriorated vastly. For at least 20 miles the path was narrow, rutted, and covered in tree roots, tree stumps, and rocks. My bike is a hybrid and it was ok, althoguh I think for this to have been actively enjoyable you'd need a mountain bike, but my boyfriend has a proper road touring bike and the path was quite impassable for much of the way. We also wasted about an hour just past Sete trying to find a canal path on the Narbonne-Sete canal which was pretty much entirely overgrown and inpassable, and then went back onto that canal path at a later point, on the basis that the book said it was good quality, to find that it was covered in thick salty sea-mud. At this point we gave up on the book entirely and found alternative road routes with the michelin maps.
The book has some good ideas for general itineraries, but if you're on a road bike don't believe what it says about the canal paths being good quality!! And it is not really detailed enough to be your main planning tool on the road.
The book has some good ideas for general itineraries, but if you're on a road bike don't believe what it says about the canal paths being good quality!! And it is not really detailed enough to be your main planning tool on the road.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is excellent for deciding on routes and on general advice such as how to book your bike on a train plus items to see in the area. The new feature of this book is that it majors on 'road tired' bikes and routes, with just the occasional nod to off-road details. Has no details on camp sites and very little on accommodation. Reads well and excites the taste buds for touring.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Best cycling reference book for the area
I borrowed this book from the library to see what it was like before I bought it...it's simply the best guide to cycling in Southern France I've seen for a while. Read more
Published 1 month ago by M Cooper
From the Med to Anglesey
This is a good book. We were planning a cycling trip from the Med back to Anglesey and this book was key to our decision making. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Adi Moore
great
A great book for the money and essential for those contemplating this cycle route - go for it. I ma now planning in an informed manner.
Published 8 months ago by F. Readhead
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