France on Two Wheels
Published on 29. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-907595-72-1 (ISBN)
Description
Both a practical companion and a story of exploration and rediscovery, France on Two Wheels offers detailed descriptions of useful routes, stop-off points and watering-holes, along with detours into subjects as varied as wine, windmills, Wodehouse, and beer. It is vivid proof that the only way to experience the French countryside is on a bike.
Adding insight to anecdote, this book is packed with practical tips: on rail travel with a bicycle, mending a puncture in French, and the best stopovers along the route - small hotels, B&Bs and chateaux, every one "a cultural treasure worth celebrating".
Adding insight to anecdote, this book is packed with practical tips: on rail travel with a bicycle, mending a puncture in French, and the best stopovers along the route - small hotels, B&Bs and chateaux, every one "a cultural treasure worth celebrating".
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-907595-72-1 (9781907595721)
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Adam Ruck is an established British travel journalist whose knowledge of France goes back more than 40 years. He has written guidebooks to France for Consumers' Association and the AA (Automobile Association), and contributes regularly to the travel pages of The Daily Telegraph. A short account of the first of Adam's rides through France, from Lake Geneva to Normandy, was published in the Travel section of The Sunday Telegraph in August 2010.