I've used these guides for a long time. I soon got used to the symbols and minimal amounts of French to read the rest. I don't, however, find the newer versions as easy to use as the ones with maps of the whole of France in one section and just an alphabetical list of all campsites.
In fact I found this latest one quite hard to use where an area, the Dordogne say, which is spread over a couple of departements and regions is shown all of a bunch on the map but details are in the actual regions and so in different sections of the book. Without the aid of an old Michelin Atlas which shows the campsites on the maps themselves I think I might have thrown this into a hedge bottom at an early stage.
It's not hard to find the campsite from the details given, it's hard to find if there's a campsite near where you are at the time. If you have a GPS it'll find the actual location from the coordinates given, but again, you still have to find the details to enter them in the first place.
Having said that though, I still find the campsites recommended in the guide to be of a good standard and worth finding so I shall no doubt continue to use the guides as I've never found a real substitute.
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