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Book Dordogne Valleys and Villages  a Bicycle Your France E guide

Download or read book Dordogne Valleys and Villages a Bicycle Your France E guide written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES expands your understanding of a gracious culture and the delight of bicycling in this exceptional region. These welcoming and friendly people live a history stretching back over 17,000 years. They seem incapable of serving anything but fine food and drink. Their dwellings, roads, bridges and railways last hundreds of years. Flowers grow around many houses and highlight village squares. The pride practiced in agriculture is like artwork. A cyclist appreciates these traits better than most who examine the world. On a bicycle you pedal up and coast down hills, on less traveled roads and through villages. You will engage small slopes, big hills, narrow roads, winding lanes, hamlets and bustling market towns. Also available is a companion guide, DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES 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 15 routes plus 12 alternate routes make this guide useful on a day's ride.

Book DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES QUEUE SHEETS E Guide

Download or read book DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES QUEUE SHEETS E Guide written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES expands your understanding of a gracious culture and the delight of bicycling in this exceptional region. These welcoming and friendly people live a history stretching back over 17,000 years. They seem incapable of serving anything but fine food and drink. Their dwellings, roads, bridges and railways last hundreds of years. Flowers grow around many houses and highlight village squares. The pride practiced in agriculture is like artwork. A cyclist appreciates these traits better than most who examine the world. On a bicycle you pedal up and coast down hills, on less traveled roads and through villages. You will engage small slopes, big hills, narrow roads, winding lanes, hamlets and bustling market towns. Also available is a companion guide, DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES 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 15 routes plus 12 alternate routes make this guide useful on a day's ride.

Book Lot Vineyards to Tarn Gorges  A Bicycle Your France E Guide

Download or read book Lot Vineyards to Tarn Gorges A Bicycle Your France E Guide written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. 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.

Book Roman Provence   Rhone Alpes  A Bicycle Your France E Guide

Download or read book Roman Provence Rhone Alpes A Bicycle Your France E Guide written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographically, this guidebook focuses on the Roman Provence Region of France of the northern Gard and western Vaucluse Departments, the Drôme Department north and east into the Rhône Alpes, and the southern Ardèche Department. The routes start from three locations: Crest in the Drôme, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc in the Ardèche and Pont du Gard west of Avignon. The Gorges de la Baume & Cirque de Combe Laval route is the outlier due to the staggering beauty of the area. Why this area of France? Not for the industrial Rhône Valley. But, if you wander 20 to 30 kilometers east or west of the Rhône Valley you will find the medieval hilltop villages, deep gorges with rushing rivers, Roman structures and very hospitable people that want to help. Fifteen routes are mapped in detailed color with elevation profiles and exacting, step-by-step directions (data gathered to the nearest 0.2 kilometer). There are 149 color photographs for these surroundings.

Book Provence  Luberon   Lavender   a Bicycle Your France E guide

Download or read book Provence Luberon Lavender a Bicycle Your France E guide written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An E-Guide for the inquisitive, bicycling tourist centered in the Provence Region of France around the Luberon, the Vaucluse Plateau and their valleys, plus routes from Digne-les-Bains and to the edge of the Gorges du Verdon. Why Provence and the Luberon? For beauty, history and lifestyle. Motorists are courteous to cyclists. Buy farm goat cheese, a bottle of wine at a vineyard or sausage in a morning market. Ride across a 2,000-year-old, stone bridge or photograph a château from the Middle Ages. A long list. You will return. Details are here for unstressed travel to this area, arriving relaxed. Includes data on selecting a community, gîtes, bikes, renting a vehicle, driving in France, what to bring, buying groceries and a bit on restaurants. 16 routes are mapped and profiled. Each one reviews a few villages and points of interest. All are on paved roads with light vehicle traffic. All photos, route maps and village detail maps are in color.

Book Burgundy Explorations  A Bicycle Your France E Guide

Download or read book Burgundy Explorations A Bicycle Your France E Guide written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographically, this guidebook focuses on the eastern part of the Burgundy Region in eastern France. There are 15 cycling routes mapped and profiled. The routes also include 47 discussions of a few villages, 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. 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. My first guidebook and old friend, BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE: EXPLORING BURGUNDY, is renovated and revamped as BURGUNDY EXPLORATIONS. All eleven of the original route maps have been redrawn. Four new routes are included. Elevation data was acquired every 200 meters on each route and new profiles drafted.

Book Burgundy Explorations Queue Sheets  A Bicycle Your France E Guide

Download or read book Burgundy Explorations Queue Sheets A Bicycle Your France E Guide written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographically, this companion guide focuses on the eastern part of the Burgundy Region in eastern France. There are 15 cycling routes mapped and profiled. Included is a listing of Waypoints for each route that locates each Waypoint’s longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds (to the hundredth), and in digital format. Details: English; 12 two-page and 3 single page color route maps; 2 single page color overview maps; 2 color town maps; 159 color photographs and illustrations. The Queue Sheets and Guidebook are available in print and Kindle from Amazon. The iPad version is at the Apple iTunes site.

Book Burgundy Secrets A Bicycle Your France E Guide

Download or read book Burgundy Secrets A Bicycle Your France E Guide written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 135 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.

Book Provence   Luberon   Lavender Queue Sheets  a Bicycle Your France E guide

Download or read book Provence Luberon Lavender Queue Sheets a Bicycle Your France E guide written by Walter Judson Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This QUEUE SHEETS companion E-Guide, with just the segment directions, profiles and maps from the E-Guide, is for the 5th in the BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE GUIDEBOOK series, PROVENCE: LUBERON & LAVENDER. Color is used throughout for clear understanding of directions, maps and elevation profiles. All 16 routes have maps in 1 or 2 segments, a profile and tested segment directions. Click on the PROVENCE: LUBERON & LAVENDER QUEUE SHEETS E-GUIDE cover icon for a preview. Ride safe. Enjoy the routes. Love the adventure. Experience the culture of this historic area of Europe.

Book Dordogne Valleys and Villages

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter More
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-02-22
  • ISBN : 9781985817654
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Dordogne Valleys and Villages written by Walter More and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Judson Moore's third edition of Dordogne Valleys and Villages (in print and Kindle(R)) contains 15 cycling routes with comprehensive maps, elevation profiles, point to point and turn directions, and two town detail maps. These maps also have symbols indicating locations for restaurants, grocery stores and historically significant châteaux. Each route has a few color photographs to help visualize the ride. Readers of previous editions (along with the author) claim this guide increases the value of your vacation/holiday time. The guide's intent isto help anticipate what to expect, thus reducing travel stress, and manage costs. To augment your observations, the route sections include 60 histories, descriptions of villages, 198 photographs, along with some notes on the area's Neanderthal prehistory. The cycling routes are loops that end where they start. The concept suggested is to stay overnight in the same place for a week and get to know something more about that place and the people who live there. Cycling in this area of France may be considered challenging. Geographically, the large area east of Argentat is the Massif Central. The Dordogne Rivière headwaters are here. The river flows generally west, cutting through the limestone plateau. Glaciers from the recent ice age, the Dordogne and its tributaries, have created gorges with steep-sided, U-shaped cross-sections. The altitude change from the river up to the plateau often exceeds 300 meters with road ascents to the tops frequently exceeding more than 5%. DORDOGNE VALLEYS and VILLAGES will expand your understanding of a gracious culture and the delight of cycling in this exceptional region. These welcoming and friendly people live a history stretching back over 17,000 years. They seem incapable of serving anything but fine food and drink. Their dwellings, roads bridges and railways last hundreds of years. Flowers grow around many houses and highlight village squares. The pride practiced in agriculture is like artwork. Also available is a print-only companion guide, DORDOGNE VALLEYS and VILLAGES QUEUE SHEETS (Third Edition). It is 9" wide by 6" high and fits in many bicycle handlebar-mounted map cases. The detailed route segment directions, waypoints (which locates its longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds to the hundredth, and in digital format), elevation profiles, route maps and appropriate village detail maps for all 15 routes are included. The 11" by 8.5" print and Kindle(R) versions of the guidebook and INCLUDES ALL THE INFORMATION in the QUEUE SHEETS.

Book DORDOGNE VALLEYS and VILLAGES  a Bicycle Your France Guidebook  Third Edition

Download or read book DORDOGNE VALLEYS and VILLAGES a Bicycle Your France Guidebook Third Edition written by Walter Moore and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Judson Moore's third edition of Dordogne Valleys and Villages (in print and Kindle®) contains 15 cycling routes with comprehensive maps, elevation profiles, point to point and turn directions, and two town detail maps. These maps also have symbols indicating locations for restaurants, grocery stores and historically significant châteaux. Each route has a few color photographs to help visualize the ride.Readers of previous editions (along with the author) claim this guide increases the value of your vacation/holiday time. The guide's intent isto help anticipate what to expect, thus reducing travel stress, and manage costs. To augment your observations, the route sections include 60 histories, descriptions of villages, 198 photographs, along with some notes on the area's Neanderthal prehistory.The cycling routes are loops that end where they start. The concept suggested is to stay overnight in the same place for a week and get to know something more about that place and the people who live there.Cycling in this area of France may be considered challenging. Geographically, the large area east of Argentat is the Massif Central. The Dordogne Rivière headwaters are here. The river flows generally west, cutting through the limestone plateau.Glaciers from the recent ice age, the Dordogne and its tributaries, have created gorges with steep-sided, U-shaped cross-sections. The altitude change from the river up to the plateau often exceeds 300 meters with road ascents to the tops frequently exceeding more than 5%.DORDOGNE VALLEYS and VILLAGES will expand your understanding of a gracious culture and the delight of cycling in this exceptional region. These welcoming and friendly people live a history stretching back over 17,000 years. They seem incapable of serving anything but fine food and drink. Their dwellings, roads bridges and railways last hundreds of years. Flowers grow around many houses and highlight village squares. The pride practiced in agriculture is like artwork.Enjoy cycling in this very special region of France.Also available is a print-only companion guide, DORDOGNE VALLEYS and VILLAGES QUEUE SHEETS (Third Edition). It is 9" wide by 6" high and fits in many bicycle handlebar-mounted map cases. The detailed route segment directions, waypoints (which locates its longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds to the hundredth, and in digital format), elevation profiles, route maps and appropriate village detail maps for all 15 routes are included.The 11" by 8.5" print and Kindle® versions of the guidebook and INCLUDES ALL THE INFORMATION in the QUEUE SHEETS.

Book Dordogne Valleys and Villages

Download or read book Dordogne Valleys and Villages written by Walter Judson Moore and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, my third cycling guidebook, contains 15 (12 with alternates) new and original routes with comprehensive maps, elevation profiles, point to point and turn directions, restaurants and orientation features plus detail maps for the towns with extra complexity. Color maps for each route have photographs that help visualize the ride. I created the guide to increases the value of any cyclist's precious vacation or holiday time. The guide helps you anticipate what to expect, thus reducing travel stress, and manage costs. To augment your observations, the route sections include 61 histories and descriptions of villages and prehistory. As with the first two guides, bicycling routes are all loops that end where they start. The tested concepts are to stay overnight in one place for a week and get to know something more about that place and the people who live there. Cycling in this area of France may be considered strenuous. Geographically, the large area east of Argentat is the Massif Central. The Dordogne Riviere's headwaters are here. The river flows generally west, cutting through the limestone plateau. Glaciers from the most recent ice age, the Dordogne and its tributaries have created gorges with, a U-shaped cross-section having steep sides. The altitude change from the river up to the plateau often exceeds 300 meters with road ascents to the tops frequently more than 6%. DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES expands your understanding of a gracious culture and the delight of bicycling in this exceptional region. These welcoming and friendly people live a history stretching back over 17,000 years. They seem incapable of serving anything but fine food and drink. Their dwellings, roads, bridges and railways last hundreds of years. Flowers grow around many houses and highlight village squares. The pride practiced in agriculture is like artwork. A cyclist appreciates these traits better than most who examine the world. On a bicycle you pedal up and coast down hills, on less traveled roads and through villages. You will engage small slopes, big hills, narrow roads, winding lanes, hamlets and bustling market towns. Also available is a companion guide, DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES 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 15 routes plus 12 alternate routes make this guide useful on a day's ride.

Book MTV France

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna E. Brooke
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2007-06-05
  • ISBN : 0764587706
  • Pages : 802 pages

Download or read book MTV France written by Anna E. Brooke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the inside scoop on France. From trolling Parisian nightclubs to skiing the French Alps, MTV France shows you what you want to do and where you want to be, with choices for every budget. Alternative accommodations. Bed down anywhere from a hauntedcastle to buzzing beachfront youth hostels or alpine ski chalets. Cheap eats. Fuel up on the world's best cheeses, cr?pes, and cassoulets. Chow down in an old Parisian workers' canteen, or try affordable cutting- edge dishes by France's hottest young chefs. Great clubs & bars. Party everywhere from Paris's grungy rue Oberkampf to the velvet rope scene at Cannes' Le Baol, or tour Champagne's best bubbly cellars and the vineyards of Burgundy and Bordeaux. World-class museums & offbeat attractions. From the Mona Lisa at the Louvre and Van Gogh's house in Arles to Paris's catacombs and Lascaux's cave paintings, you'll discover France's finest and freakiest sites.

Book Dordogne Valleys and Villages Queue Sheets  2nd Edition

Download or read book Dordogne Valleys and Villages Queue Sheets 2nd Edition written by Walter Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 70 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) is for the 3rd in the BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE GUIDEBOOK series, DOEDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES.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.All Eighteen routes (4 with alternates) have a 1-page map, a profile and tested segment directions. This, my third cycling guidebook, contains 15 (12 with alternates) new and original routes with comprehensive maps, elevation profiles, point to point and turn directions, restaurants and orientation features plus detail maps for the towns with extra complexity. Color maps for each route have photographs that help visualize the ride.I created the guide to increases the value of any cyclist's precious vacation or holiday time. The guide helps you anticipate what to expect, thus reducing travel stress, and manage costs. To augment your observations, the route sections include 61 histories and descriptions of villages and prehistory.As with the first two guides, bicycling routes are all loops that end where they start. The tested concepts are to stay overnight in one place for a week and get to know something more about that place and the people who live there. Cycling in this area of France may be considered strenuous. Geographically, the large area east of Argentat is the Massif Central. The Dordogne Rivière's headwaters are here. The river flows generally west, cutting through the limestone plateau. Glaciers from the most recent ice age, the Dordogne and its tributaries have created gorges with, a U-shaped cross-section having steep sides. The altitude change from the river up to the plateau often exceeds 300 meters with road ascents to the tops frequently more than 6%.DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES expands your understanding of a gracious culture and the delight of bicycling in this exceptional region. These welcoming and friendly people live a history stretching back over 17,000 years. They seem incapable of serving anything but fine food and drink. Their dwellings, roads, bridges and railways last hundreds of years. Flowers grow around many houses and highlight village squares. The pride practiced in agriculture is like artwork.A cyclist appreciates these traits better than most who examine the world. On a bicycle you pedal up and coast down hills, on less traveled roads and through villages. You will engage small slopes, big hills, narrow roads, winding lanes, hamlets and bustling market towns.-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.

Book Bicycle USA

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Bicycle USA written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Epic Drives of the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lonely Planet
  • Publisher : Lonely Planet
  • Release : 2017-08-01
  • ISBN : 1787010023
  • Pages : 615 pages

Download or read book Epic Drives of the World written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buckle up for the next installment in our 'Epic' series and the follow-up to Epic Bike Rides of the World. Epic Drives of the World, a beautiful hardback, showcases 50 of the greatest road trips on Earth, from classic routes in America, Australia and Europe, to incredible adventures in Asia and Africa. Organised by continent, each route features a first-hand account, awe-inspiring photographs, illustrated maps and practical advice on when to go, how to get there, where to stay and what to eat. From Hawaii's Hana Highway and Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh Road, to Utah's National Park Circuit and Germany's Black Forest High Road, Epic Drives of the World will inspire any motorist to hit the open road. African and Middle East drives include: The self-drive Safari (Zambia) Crossing the Kalahari (Botswana) Passing over the Panorama Route (South Africa) Marrakesh to Taroudannt (Morocco) Cruising Clarence Drive (South Africa) The Americas drives include: The Highway to Hana in Hawaii (USA) The Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) The Pacific Coast Highway (USA) Crossing the Carretera Austral (Chile) Canada's Icefields Parkway Asia drives include: On the trail of Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) Crossing the Kathmandu Loop (Nepal) Hightailing from Thimphu to Gangtey (Bhutan) South Korea: From top to toe The road from Srinagar to Manali (India) Europe drives include: Black Forest High Road (Germany) The Wilds of Abruzzo (Italy) Croatia's Adriatic coast Norway's west coast The Magic Circle (Iceland) Oceania drives include: Southern Alps explorer (New Zealand) The Great Ocean Road (Australia) Northland & the Bay of Islands (New Zealand) Following the Captain Cook Highway (Australia) Alice Springs to Darwin (Australia) About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. Lonely Planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or far from home. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Book The Rough Guide to the Loire

Download or read book The Rough Guide to the Loire written by James McConnachie and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brand-new Rough Guide to The Loire is the essential guide to one of France''s most popular regions. A World Heritage Site, The Loire is famed for its soft, fertile countryside and a marvellous parade of châteaux. The main section of the guide has informed accounts of every attraction from the fascinating troglodyte dwellings carved out of rock-faces around Saumur to the compelling gardens at Villandry. The listings tell you where to find the best wines, the tastiest goat''s cheese and the most interesting places to stay. There are maps and plans throughout and a full-colour introductory section listing the author''s favourite ''things not to miss''. In the contexts section there is detailed background on the region''s culture, cuisine, wine, festivals and history.