Download or read book BORDEAUX the PYR N ES A BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE GUIDEBOOK SECOND EDITION written by Walter Judson Moore and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook highlights routes around Bordeaux, the Garonne Canal and the Pyrénées in the Aquitaine Region of southwest France. There are 16 cycling routes mapped and profiled. The guide includes 53 commentaries on villages, a canal, rivers, historical people and points of interest along the way. Included with each route are waypoints that locate their position longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds, and in digital format.Details: 131 pages; 11" x 8.5"; English; 16 two-page color route maps; one single page color overview map; 7 village and town maps; 238 color photographs.You can handle any and all of these sixteen routes, from the highest paved road in the Pyrénées to the flat woods in the Médoc. It all depends on your lungs, thighs, patience and proper selection of grandparents.In addition to the routes way up four Mountain passes, two routes utilize thePiste Cyclable Roger Lapébie, and four routes follow the cycle path along theCanal de Garonne.Visit Eleanor of Aquitaine's city of Bordeaux, King Henry IV's château inNérac, ask about Richard the Lionheart's chamber overlooking the Eymet centralsquare, and walk around site of the last battle of the Wars of Religion in Castillion-la-Bataille. Then throw in a couple morning markets along with Castillonnès, Agen, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Pau and Oloron-Ste-Marie.Basic data are included on selecting a community, finding and renting a gîte, bringing your bike or renting a good one, having or renting a vehicle, driving in France, what to bring, buying groceries and something on restaurants.
Download or read book Bordeaux the Pyrenees written by Walter Judson Moore and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook spotlights routes around Bordeaux, the Garonne Canal and the Pyrénées in the southwest of France. There are 16 cycling routes mapped and profiled. The guide includes 53 thoughts on some villages, a canal, rivers, historical people and points of interest along the way. Included with each route is the latest method for listing Waypoints that locates its longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds (to the hundredth), and in digital format. Elevation data was acquired every 200 meters on each route and new profiles drafted. As with all other BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE guidebooks, this guide also offers a companion, QUEUE SHEETS, with just the Waypoint GPS located listings, route maps and elevation profile. Details: 109 pages; 11" x 8.5"; English; 16 two-page color route maps; one single page color overview map; 197 color photographs and illustrations. In addition to the print format, this guidebook and the Queue Sheets are available for Kindle devices and in the Adobe Digital Editions for Apple iPad devices. Route maps are presented in two halves in 800x1260 pixels appropriate for the 7" and 8.9" Kindle Fire HD. Smaller graphics and photographs are in 800x1260 pixels. You can handle any and all of these sixteen routes, from the highest paved road in the Pyrénées to the flat woods through the Médoc. It all depends on your lungs, thighs, patience and proper selection of grandparents. All the routes are through the Aquitaine Region of southwest France with its extraordinary history. The jagged, snow-capped peaks of the Pyrénées are breathtaking, physically and emotionally. But this great range is very approachable. In addition to the routes way up four mountain passes, two routes utilize the Piste Cyclable Roger Labadie, and four routes follow the cycle path along the Canal de Garonne. Visit Eleanor of Aquitaine's city of Bordeaux, King Henry IV's château in Nérac, ask about Richard the Lionheart's chamber overlooking the Eymet central square, and walk around the last battle of the Wars of Religion in Castillion-la-Bataille. Then throw in Castillonnès, Agen, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Pau and Oloron-Ste-Marie. This becomes a journey through the Middle Ages. Basic data are included on selecting a community, finding and renting a gîte, bringing your bike or renting a good one, having or renting a vehicle, driving in France, what to bring, buying groceries and something on restaurants. With each new guidebook I become more convinced that the best way to engage totally with a region is to bicycle it. Get out there you cycling pilgrims.
Download or read book Bordeaux the Pyrenees Queue Sheets written by Walter Moore and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-08-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Queue Sheets companion guide (WITH JUST THE MAPS WAYPOINTS AND PROFILES, - the guidebook details the interesting places along the routes) spotlights routes around Bordeaux, the Garonne Canal and the Pyrénées in the southwest of France. There are 16 cycling routes mapped and profiled. Included with each route is the latest method for listing Waypoints that locates its longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds (to the hundredth), and in digital format. Elevation data was acquired every 200 meters on each route and new profiles drafted. The Queue Sheets and Guidebook are available in print and Kindle from Amazon. The iPad version is at the Apple iTunes site. - If you have any questions or comments on this area of France, please contact me here in Florida USA (I travel for the next guidebook in the spring) at [email protected] - also on Facebook (Walter Judson Moore). And thank you.
Download or read book LOT VINEYARDS to TARN GORGES written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bicycle near the Lot Rivière and through the Tarn Gorges as they wind their serpentine journeys through the spectacular and historic settings of southwestern France. This book guides cyclists through an area that for 25,000 years has evolved a civilization based on community and family. The route maps and directions in this guide are as accurate and detailed as I found feasible. I prepared with the best sources I could find, then in 2010 I cycled the routes (occasionally walked a segment), took photos, made notes, discussed the routes with knowledgeable people and made corrections. A key objective is to avoid injury to a cyclist. Next, should your route include an unintended deviation, the map should have sufficient information to allow your return to the route.Then during the 2020 pandemic, I redrafted each route and charted the elevation profiles with more detail that became available in the intervening ten years. The object of this redrafting was to make the route easier to understand and to remove perceived ambiguities. All photos were re-edited from the original JPG files.Each route has some research notes (for a total of 53 in the guide) about the surroundings; some of these notes are historical, some geographical and some few about the nonhuman creatures you may sight along the way. Very little of this research replicates information in other guides.This guide spends little space on specific places to shelter for a night or a week. A bit more space is allowed for eating.As in my previous guides, I attempt to inform you about traveling to the area and what to expect when you arrive. Hopefully, this helps in your planning and reduces the stresses of travel to a different environment.Finally, well not quite, I try to have you understand the habits and customs in more depth. Should you have the opportunity to talk with a village senior you might learn that he or she was born in the same house that has been in the family for multiple generations. Does she know why she walks her children or grandchildren to school every morning and meets them in the afternoon? Did the grandfather speak Occitan? Who did they lose during World War II? Does the local bus service work as well as the long-defunct tram?In the guidebook's 127 pages, in addition to planning and introductory sections, eighteen routes are mapped in detailed color with elevation profiles and exacting turn-by-turn directions. There are 207 color photographs for visualizing surroundings.
Download or read book Lot Vineyards to Tarn Gorges written by Walter Judson Moore and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bicycle near the Lot River and through the Lot Gorges as they wind their serpentine journeys through the spectacular and historic settings of southwestern France. This exceptional book guides cyclists through an area that for 25,000 years has evolved a civilization based on community and family. Eighteen routes (4 with alternates) are mapped in detailed color with elevation profiles and exacting, step-by-step directions. There are 234 color photographs for visualizing surroundings. The routes are loops that end where they start. This concept is to stay overnight in one place for a week and get to know something more about that place and the people who live there. To increase the value of your precious vacation or holiday time, the guide helps you anticipate what to expect, thus reducing travel stress, and manage costs. To expand your scrutiny, the guide includes 49 notes on history, geography and nonhuman creatures. Details: 102 pages; 11" x 8.5"; English, 18 two page color route maps; a single page color overview map; 4 color town maps. Also available is a companion guide, LOT VINEYARDS TO TARN GORGES QUEUE SHEETS. It is 9" wide by 6" high and fits in many bicycle handlebar-mounted map cases. The detailed segment directions, elevation profiles, individual maps and appropriate village detail maps for all 18 routes plus 4 alternates.
Download or read book Bicycle Your France written by Walter Judson Moore and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-12-24 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any bicyclist and tourist that desires to truly enjoy the beauty and ambiance of France, this guide makes it possible. The book focuses on an independent, fun and economical bicycling vacation in the hills and valleys of eastern France. The guide specifics every aspect of this vacation; planning, physical preparation and travel to lodging, bicycle rental and food. He coaches you on village and lodging selection, the Paris airport, train travel, what to pack and driving. Other subjects include what to pack, bicycle safety, cultural interest and history. Moore lists detailed local maps and reveals methods for developing individual rides. Or you can start with the 15 well-described loop rides, each with a 2-page color map plus 30 maps for the tricky areas. You stay on paved, safe rural lanes, avoiding medium traffic roads. Each loop map ranks the difficulty, has an elevation profile with percent of ascent and descent for the hills plus the distance and gross ascent.
Download or read book Bicycle Your France Secret Burgundy Queue Sheets 2nd Edition written by Walter Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2011-12-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This QUEUE SHEETS companion guide, with just the segment directions, profiles and maps from the guidebook, is for BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE SECRET BURGUNDY.Color is used throughout for clear understanding of directions, maps and elevation profiles.The book is 9" wide by 6" high, a more suitable size to fit in a bike map case.Walter Judson Moore's second Burgundy cycling guidebook contains 16 new and original loops with comprehensive maps, elevation profiles, point to point and turn directions, restaurants and orientation features plus detail maps for the villages with extra complexity. Color maps for each loop have photographs that help visualize the ride.This guide reduces travel stress by making clear what to expect at every turn from arrival in Paris to buying groceries at a supermarché. Lodging in a Gîte Rural (holiday cottage) benefits not only your budget but also your grasp of village life.BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE: SECRET BURGUNDY expands your understanding of a gracious culture and the delight of bicycling in this unique region. These welcoming and friendly people live a 3,000-year-old history. They seem incapable of serving anything but fine food and drink. Their dwellings, roads, bridges and railways last hundreds of years. Flowers grow at the end of most vineyards, around many houses and highlight village squares. There is no litter. The pride practiced in agriculture is like creating artwork.A cyclist appreciates these traits better than most who examine the world. On a bicycle in Burgundy you pedal up hills, on less traveled roads and through villages. You won't miss small slopes, big hills, narrow roads, winding lanes, hamlets and bustling market towns.
Download or read book Bicycle Your France written by Walter Judson Moore and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Judson Moore's second Burgundy cycling guidebook contains 16 new and original loops with comprehensive maps, elevation profiles, point to point and turn directions, restaurants and orientation features plus detail maps for the villages with extra complexity. Color maps for each loop have photographs that help visualize the ride. This guide reduces travel stress by making clear what to expect at every turn from arrival in Paris to buying groceries at a supermarche. Lodging in a Gite Rural (holiday cottage) benefits not only your budget but also your grasp of village life. BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE: SECRET BURGUNDY expands your understanding of a gracious culture and the delight of bicycling in this unique region. These welcoming and friendly people live a 3,000-year-old history. They seem incapable of serving anything but fine food and drink. Their dwellings, roads, bridges and railways last hundreds of years. Flowers grow at the end of most vineyards, around many houses and highlight village squares. There is no litter. The pride practiced in agriculture is like creating artwork. A cyclist appreciates these traits better than most who examine the world. On a bicycle in Burgundy you pedal up hills, on less traveled roads and through villages. You won't miss small slopes, big hills, narrow roads, winding lanes, hamlets and bustling market towns.
Download or read book Burgundy Secrets Queue Sheets written by Walter Judson Moore and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My second guidebook and friend, BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE: SECRET BURGUNDY, now has a facelift, all redrawn maps, waypoints with GPS data and renamed as BURGUNDY SECRETS. All sixteen of the original route maps are included, but now easier to understand and navigate. Elevation data was acquired every 200 meters on each route and new profiles drafted. All routes include discussions of a few villages, historical personalities and points of interest along the way. Included with each route is the latest method for listing Waypoints. Now each Waypoint locates longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds (to the hundredth), and in digital format. Cyclists with GPS-enabled smartphones may check each of the turn instructions while their companions either wait around or get on with the ride. As with all other BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE guidebooks, this guide also offers a companion publication, QUEUE SHEETS, with just the Waypoint listings (with GPS), route maps and elevation profile. In addition to the print format, this guidebook and the companion Queue Sheets are available for the Kindle devices and in the Adobe Digital Editions for Apple iPad devices.
Download or read book Burgundy Secrets a Bicycle Your France Guidebook Third Edition written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My second guidebook and friend, BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE: SECRET BURGUNDY, now has a facelift, all redrawn maps, waypoints with GPS data and renamed as BURGUNDY SECRETS. All sixteen of the original route maps are included, but now easier to understand and navigate. Elevation data was acquired every 200 meters on each route and new profiles drafted. All routes include discussions of a few villages, historical personalities and points of interest along the way. Included with each route is the latest method for listing Waypoints. Now each Waypoint locates longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds (to the hundredth), and in digital format. Cyclists with GPS-enabled smartphones may check each of the turn instructions while their companions either wait around or get on with the ride. As with all other BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE guidebooks, this guide also offers a companion publication, QUEUE SHEETS, with just the Waypoint listings (with GPS), route maps and elevation profile.
Download or read book South of France written by Walter Judson Moore and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture in these 5 departments is amazing. Examples are the Cité deCarcassonne and the Ste-Cécile Cathédrale in Albi.This guidebook focuses on 18 cycling routes around Carcassonne, Albi and Foix.There are 45 remarks on villages, a canal, rivers and points of interest.Included with each route is the latest method for listing Waypoints that locates its longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds, and in digital format.Basic data are included on selecting a community and a gîte, bringing your bike orrenting, having a vehicle, driving in France, what to bring, and buying groceries.As with all other BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE guidebooks, this guide also offers acompanion, QUEUE SHEETS, with just the Waypoint GPS located listings, route mapsand elevation profiles.Details: 116 pages; 11" x 8.5"; English; 17 two-page and 1 single-page color route maps; 13 town maps and descriptive graphics; 159 color photographs.In addition to the print format, this guidebook is available for Kindle..-- - If you have any questions or comments on this area of France, please contact me here in Florida USA at [email protected] - also on Facebook (Walter Judson Moore). And thank you.
Download or read book Cycling France written by Neil Irvine and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide steers you along France’s best cycling routes, to the best patisseries, the friendliest places to stay and the most breathtaking scenery. Find a tour to suit you - a leisurely day trip, a week-long food and wine tour or an epic mountain climb. Including - 135 days of France’s best cycling - including Corsica; - on-the-road maintenance tips and a guide to French cycle-speak; - where to eat - from markets to cafes and restaurants; - where to stay - from camping to B&Bs and chateaux; - what to see and do, in and out of the saddle; - how to pack and transport your bike; - the Tour de France explained.
Download or read book Burgundy Secrets a Bicycle Your France Guidebook written by Walter Moore and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My second guidebook and friend, BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE: SECRET BURGUNDY, now has a facelift, all redrawn maps, waypoints with GPS data and renamed as BURGUNDY SECRETS. All sixteen of the original route maps are included, but now easier to understand and navigate. Elevation data was acquired every 200 meters on each route and new profiles drafted.All routes include discussions of a few villages, historical personalities and points of interest along the way.Included with each route is the latest method for listing Waypoints. Now each Waypoint locates longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds (to the hundredth), and in digital format. Cyclists with GPS-enabled smartphones may check each of the turn instructions while their companions either wait around or get on with the ride.As with all other BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE guidebooks, this guide also offers a companion publication, QUEUE SHEETS, with just the Waypoint listings (with GPS), route maps and elevation profile.In addition to the print format, this guidebook and the companion Queue Sheets are available for the Kindle devices and in the Adobe Digital Editions for Apple iPad devices.
Download or read book South of France written by MR Walter Judson Moore and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much to contemplate as you cycle through this area in the south-central part of France, not to mention the exceptional scenery. The stories and legends seem as endless as the rolling French roads decorated by countless villages. The architecture in these 5 departments is amazing. Examples are the Cite de Carcassonne and the Ste-Cecile Cathedrale in Albi. This guidebook focuses on 18 cycling routes around Carcassonne, Albi and Foix. There are 45 remarks on villages, a canal, rivers and points of interest. Included with each route is the latest method for listing Waypoints that locates its longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds, and in digital format. Basic data are included on selecting a community and a gite, bringing your bike or renting, having a vehicle, driving in France, what to bring, and buying groceries. As with all other BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE guidebooks, this guide also offers a companion, QUEUE SHEETS, with just the Waypoint GPS located listings, route maps and elevation profiles. Details: 116 pages; 11" x 8.5"; English; 17 two-page and 1 single-page color route maps; 13 town maps and descriptive graphics; 159 color photographs. In addition to the print format, this guidebook and the Queue Sheets are available for Kindle devices and in the Adobe Digital Editions for Apple iPad devices. Route maps graphics and photographs are presented in two halves in 800x1260 pixels appropriate for the 7" and 8.9" Kindle Fire HD.
Download or read book The Wine Bible written by Karen MacNeil and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 2408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can describe a wine like Karen MacNeil. Comprehensive, entertaining, authoritative, and endlessly interesting, The Wine Bible is a lively course from an expert teacher, grounding the reader deeply in the fundamentals—vine-yards and varietals, climate and terroir, the nine attributes of a wine’s greatness—while layering on tips, informative asides, anecdotes, definitions, photographs, maps, labels, and recommended bottles. Discover how to taste with focus and build a wine-tasting memory. The reason behind Champagne’s bubbles. Italy, the place the ancient Greeks called the land of wine. An oak barrel’s effect on flavor. Sherry, the world’s most misunderstood and underappreciated wine. How to match wine with food—and mood. Plus everything else you need to know to buy, store, serve, and enjoy the world’s most captivating beverage.
Download or read book Experiencing Architecture second edition written by Steen Eiler Rasmussen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic examination of superb design through the centuries. Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence—ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace—Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience. In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pursuit, but a community undertaking. Dwellings were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use, resulting in “a remarkably suitable comeliness.” While we cannot return to a former age, Rasmussen notes, we can still design spaces that are beautiful and useful by seeking to understand architecture as an art form that must be experienced. An understanding of good design comes not only from one's professional experience of architecture as an abstract, individual pursuit, but also from one's shared, everyday experience of architecture in real time—its particular use of light, color, shape, scale, texture, rhythm and sound. Experiencing Architecture reminds us of what good architectural design has accomplished over time, what it can accomplish still, and why it is worth pursuing. Wide-ranging and approachable, it is for anyone who has ever wondered “what instrument the architect plays on.”
Download or read book Down and Out in Paris and London written by George Orwell and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities, which was written deliberately in a non-academic tone. Its target audience was the middle and upper class members of society-those who were more likely to be well educated-and exposes the poverty existing in two prosperous cities: Paris and London. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins. Book Summary: After giving up his post as a policeman in Burma to become a writer, Orwell moved to rooms in Portobello Road, London at the end of 1927 when he was 24. While contributing to various journals, he undertook investigative tramping expeditions in and around London, collecting material for use in "The Spike", his first published essay, and for the latter half of Down and Out in Paris and London. In spring of 1928 he moved to Paris and lived at 6 Rue du Pot de Fer in the Latin Quarter, a bohemian quarter with a cosmopolitan flavour. American writers like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald had lived in the same area. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a large Russian emigre community in Paris. Orwell's aunt Nellie Limouzin also lived in Paris and gave him social and, when necessary, financial support. He led an active social life, worked on his novels and had several articles published in avant-garde journals.
