- Jubilee offer: spend £10 or more on any product sold by Amazon.co.uk on or before June 6 and you can buy The Diamond Jubilee A Classical Celebration Album for just £2.50 Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
 Trade In this Item for up to £2.30
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Insight Guides: The French Riviera for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £2.30, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Product Description
Product Description
A brand new and up-to-date edition featuring inspiring full-colour photography that captures the beauty and glamour of the French Riviera, alongside comprehensive coverage of the entire region, from Hyeres and the Massif des Maures to the mountainous Border Country. A brand new 'Best of' feature highlights the top attractions not to be missed and provides the editor's choice of exclusive and unique recommendations, such as where to find the best architecture, hill-top villages and gardens. So whether you want to experience the glamour of St-Tropez or simply stroll through a Provencal market, this guide will ensure you make the most of your stay. Dedicated restaurant listings can be located after the exploration of each area and include full contact details and an indication of price range and local specialities. A fully-indexed touring map highlights eight of the best drives specially designed to ensure you see the best of the region, its chic resorts, remote villages and stunning scenery. Each tour is timed and clearly marked on the map for ease of use so you can pick the route that suits you best. Intriguing history and feature sections explore the region's people, culture and decisive dates, in lively essays written by local experts, to help you truly get to the heart of this fascinating region. The 'Travel Tips' listings section provides an invaluable point of reference covering transport, accommodation, nightlife, shopping, health, money, language and much more. The guide is durable and highly portable, making it an ideal companion for your trip and also a wonderful souvenir.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
To be perfectly honest I find it very difficult to go on holiday without having done a little digging before I go. This may sound a little "odd" but I actually enjoy the planning process as much as the holiday itself.
I therefore have a growing collection of travel guides (good news for Amazon !!).
My usual travel companion is Cara my daughter, who will be 21 this year, as this trip will coincide with her birthday I was keen to "do my homework" and ensure that she has a trip / birthday to remember.
She had suggested Monte Carlo as a possibility so hence the recent purchase of the book - it has apparently been fully up-dated and gives an excellent introduction to the French Riviera.
The photographs are truly inspiring (especially when viewed in a British winter)- can the sea & sky really be that BLUE.
There is a small section on the Region's history, some detailed descriptions of all points of interest heading geographically from West to East - Hyeres to Menton near the Italian border.
It also has recommendations for restaurants, hotels, travel tips & day trip suggestions which I find quite useful - although we quite often merely follow our noses.
We have been to Cannes before, so are thinking about setting up base camp in Nice which apparently has a good selection of restaurants & retail therapy (young daughter who will indeed shop till she drops)and still seems to retain it's regional identity.
Needless to say I am looking forward to our trip to France and will no doubt ensure that the first thing put into my luggage will be my newly acquired guide book.
I therefore have a growing collection of travel guides (good news for Amazon !!).
My usual travel companion is Cara my daughter, who will be 21 this year, as this trip will coincide with her birthday I was keen to "do my homework" and ensure that she has a trip / birthday to remember.
She had suggested Monte Carlo as a possibility so hence the recent purchase of the book - it has apparently been fully up-dated and gives an excellent introduction to the French Riviera.
The photographs are truly inspiring (especially when viewed in a British winter)- can the sea & sky really be that BLUE.
There is a small section on the Region's history, some detailed descriptions of all points of interest heading geographically from West to East - Hyeres to Menton near the Italian border.
It also has recommendations for restaurants, hotels, travel tips & day trip suggestions which I find quite useful - although we quite often merely follow our noses.
We have been to Cannes before, so are thinking about setting up base camp in Nice which apparently has a good selection of restaurants & retail therapy (young daughter who will indeed shop till she drops)and still seems to retain it's regional identity.
Needless to say I am looking forward to our trip to France and will no doubt ensure that the first thing put into my luggage will be my newly acquired guide book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
INSPIRATION. It does not come from reading a Wikipedia page about a destination, nor is it stirred
up by reading page after page of text without photographs or drawings. Insight Guides are both
practical and emotional, serving up information and inspiration in equal measure.
For all the good the internet does, it can be an incredibly daunting resource for someone researching
a holiday to an unfamiliar location. Wikipedia, TripAdvisor and the tourist board will all offer up
useful information but there is no amalgamation, no united purpose. It's all a little bit here and
there.
For me, guidebooks are an essential port of call. They give you the overview you need to get a sense
of the town, city or country, whilst also providing an opportunity for in-depth study of particular
points of interest. It allows the reader to mine down to whatever level of information they wish
- you can know about a country's geopolitics or you can know what time the local modern art
museum closes on a Sunday. All in one resource.
Insight Guides are, in my experience, the finest of the lot. They are concise but never brief. They do
not resemble the tomes of Lonely Planet guides nor are they guilty of the lack of depth for which
DK's efforts can be criticised. Instead they fall in a happy middle ground and impress as a result.
I picked up this guide for inspiration as I was due to move to Cagnes-sur-Mer and it was not an area
of which I had any experience. I grabbed this and the DK Eyewitness book covering the same region.
Immediately there is a difference - the DK pitches at the reader with more hand-drawn graphics,
more boxes and more insets. The Insight, whilst by no means short of photographs, maps and
graphics, places them around a sizeable chunk of text which affords the reader a grand opportunity
at fully understanding a region.
If one was to dip in and consider only the pictures, the Insight Guide trumps the DK guide. If one is
inclined to take in the wealth of information contained in the Insight Guide, it is undoubtedly the
better guidebook. You come away from the book not only wanting to see every place mentioned
in the book but also knowing how doing so would be possible. And yet this is not a book comprised
solely of glowing positives - there is the welcome inclusion of warnings pertaining to tourist traps,
overrated attractions and unsafe suburbs.
Since this guide, an Insight Guide has been purchased in advance of every trip I have taken and that
is not a trend I see stopping anytime soon.
up by reading page after page of text without photographs or drawings. Insight Guides are both
practical and emotional, serving up information and inspiration in equal measure.
For all the good the internet does, it can be an incredibly daunting resource for someone researching
a holiday to an unfamiliar location. Wikipedia, TripAdvisor and the tourist board will all offer up
useful information but there is no amalgamation, no united purpose. It's all a little bit here and
there.
For me, guidebooks are an essential port of call. They give you the overview you need to get a sense
of the town, city or country, whilst also providing an opportunity for in-depth study of particular
points of interest. It allows the reader to mine down to whatever level of information they wish
- you can know about a country's geopolitics or you can know what time the local modern art
museum closes on a Sunday. All in one resource.
Insight Guides are, in my experience, the finest of the lot. They are concise but never brief. They do
not resemble the tomes of Lonely Planet guides nor are they guilty of the lack of depth for which
DK's efforts can be criticised. Instead they fall in a happy middle ground and impress as a result.
I picked up this guide for inspiration as I was due to move to Cagnes-sur-Mer and it was not an area
of which I had any experience. I grabbed this and the DK Eyewitness book covering the same region.
Immediately there is a difference - the DK pitches at the reader with more hand-drawn graphics,
more boxes and more insets. The Insight, whilst by no means short of photographs, maps and
graphics, places them around a sizeable chunk of text which affords the reader a grand opportunity
at fully understanding a region.
If one was to dip in and consider only the pictures, the Insight Guide trumps the DK guide. If one is
inclined to take in the wealth of information contained in the Insight Guide, it is undoubtedly the
better guidebook. You come away from the book not only wanting to see every place mentioned
in the book but also knowing how doing so would be possible. And yet this is not a book comprised
solely of glowing positives - there is the welcome inclusion of warnings pertaining to tourist traps,
overrated attractions and unsafe suburbs.
Since this guide, an Insight Guide has been purchased in advance of every trip I have taken and that
is not a trend I see stopping anytime soon.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent compact guide to the area, both the coast and the inland parts, useful for pre-trip planning and as a guide book whilst there. The guide provides reasonable information on the sights and the addition of plenty of photographs within each chapter is helpful (I don't like the way some guidebooks puts blocks of pictures together well away from the text). There is a handy pullout map that fits into the flyleaf although I still wouldn't be without a larger road atlas. At the end there is a travel tips section which includes listings for hotels - restaurant suggestions are included in elsewhere as part of the guide to each place/area - plus information on festivals & events, markets, etc..
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
