Rick Steves France Travel Guide 2011
Rick Steves France 2011 Guidebook
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France is Europe's most diverse, tasty, and, in many ways, exciting country to explore. It's a multifaceted cultural fondue. France is nearly as big as Texas, with 61 million people and more than 400 different cheeses. Diversité is a French forte. This country features three distinct mountain ranges (the Alps, the Pyrenees, and the Central), the different-as-night-and-day Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines, cosmopolitan cities (such as Paris, Lyon, and Nice—all featured in this book), and sleepy villages. From its Swiss-like Alps to its molto Italian Riviera, and from the Spanish Pyrenees to das German Alsace, you can stay in France, feel like you've sampled much of Europe, and never be more than a short stroll from a good vin rouge.
In Rick Steves' France, you'll find in-depth Rick-tested information on trip planning, hotels, restaurants, tourist offices, transportation, telephones, festivals and holidays, mail and e-mail, weather, survival phrases and easy-to-follow maps. It covers all the best sights (but does not include the illustrated city walks and museum tours found in Rick's Paris guidebook).
* Paris and Surroundings: Versailles, Chartres, Giverny and Disneyland Paris
* Normandy: Rouen, Honfleur, Bayeux, D-Day Beaches and Mont St. Michel
* Brittany: Dinan, St. Malo
* The Loire: Amboise, Chenonceaux, Blois, Chambord, Cheverny, Chaumont, Chinon, Azay-le-Rideau, Langeais, Villandry, and more
* Dordogne: Sarlat, Dordogne River Valley, Cro-Magnon Caves, Oradour-sur-Glane, St. Emilion, Rocamadour, Lot River Valley
* Basque Country: St. Jean-de-Luz, Bayonne, Biarritz, French Basque villages plus nearby Spanish towns of San Sebastián, Hondarribia, Guernica and Bilbao
* Languedoc: Albi, Carcassonne, Collioure
* Provence and the French Riviera: Arles, Avignon, Pont du Gard, Les Baux, Orange, Vaison-la-Romaine, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Roussillon, Nice, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Three Corniches, Monaco, Antibes, Vence
* Eastern France: Lyon, Beaune, Colmar, Route du Vin, Strasbourg, Reims, Verdun, Chamonix and nearby French Alps villages, and Annecy
* Full-color fold-out Planning Map: This handy 14½”x19½” map includes all of France plus regional close-ups of D-Day Beaches, Loire Valley, Dordogne, Provence and Riviera on the front; Paris (with major sights) and Paris Metro/RER map on the back.
Contents
Introduction
Planning
Resources
Practicalities
Money
Transportation
Communicating
Sleeping
Eating
Traveling as a Temporary Local
Back Door Travel Philosophy |
Paris
Near Paris
Versailles
Chartres Cathedral
Giverny
Disneyland Paris |
Normandy
Rouen
Honfleur
Bayeux
D-Day Beaches
Mont St. Michel
Brittany
Dinan
The Loire
Amboise
Chenonceaux
More Châteaux near Amboise
Chinon
More Châteaux near Chinon |
Dordogne
Sarlat
Best of the Dordogne River Valley
Cro-Magnon Caves
Oradour-sur-Glane and Nearby
St. Emilion and Bordeaux Wine Country
Rocamadour
Lot River Valley
Basque Country
St. Jean-de-Luz
Villages in the French Basque Country
Day Trip to Spanish Basque Country |
Languedoc
Albi
Carcassonne
Collioure
Provence
Arles
Avignon
Pont du Gard, Les Baux, and Orange
Villages of the Côtes du Rhône
Top Hill Towns of Luberon |
The French Riviera
Nice
Villefranche-sur-Mer
The Three Corniches
Monaco
Antibes
Inland Riviera
The French Alps
Annecy
Chamonix |
Burgundy
Beaune
Between Beaune and Paris
Between Burgundy and the Loire
Between Burgundy and Lyon
Lyon
Beaujolais Wine Route
Alsace and Northern France
Colmar
Route du Vin
Strasbourg
Verdun
Reims |
Appendix
"La Marseillaise"
French History in an Escargot Shell
Let's Talk Telephones
European Calling Chart
Public Holidays and Festivals
Climate
Converting Temperatures
Numbers and Stumblers
Metric Conversion
French Survival Phrases
Making Your Hotel Reservation
Index |
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