Product Description

This pocket-sized full-colour guide is designed for short-break holidays around Nice with a gastronomic touch. Even if you're not a walker, it's worth having just for the restaurant suggestions, the excursions and the information about local food. The book describes two excursions for all-comers (including the superb narrow-gauge Train de Pignes into the hinterland), plus 12 easy to moderate walks in or easily accessible from Nice, all illustrated with 1:35,000 topographical maps. Each excursion or walk recommends at least one restaurant en route serving local cuisine, with photograph, price guide, opening times, sample menus, and recipes for some of their specialities. Other sections include: planning your trip, getting about, food shopping (including health foods and local markets), glossary of food terms and restaurant mini-vocabulary. A special feature is the emphasis on natural local foods suitable for those with food intolerances. All recipes have been made by the authors and are known to 'work'. On-line updates keep readers abreast of route/restaurant changes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #170562 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-15
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

A concise well informed guide
This book is really good for those who wish to explore and look beyond Nice itself. I have purchased a number of books on the City and the surrounds because we visit Nice on a regular basis and this is an excellent addition to those more standard guide books.

poor value and misdescribed
I am a regular visitor to Nice, and my trusted Rough Guide is rather out of date, so I bought this 2008 publication to supplement it. It is poorly written, and is apparently just a series of articles about food and restaurants - it is certainly not a guidebook. The description on Amazon is misleading (the first time I have found this - Amazon descriptions can usually be trusted).
The book is of absolutely no value at all to visitors on short breaks - better by far is the Time Out guide. A more detailed guide (e.g. Rough Guide) is better for stays of a week or more.
Another major ommission in this book (supposedly revised in 2008) is the absence of information on the excellent Nice Tramway system that was completed early in 2007. The tramway has made travel around Nice much easier and incredibly good value - any book purporting to be a guide book would include full details.

Make the Most of Your Holiday
The French Revieria is a wonderful place to holiday, Nice being a very pleasant part of it but being there isn't going to be enough to provide the best time for your stay there. There are many guide books of course but in my view the best way to see an area is by walking and the easiest way to achieve a rewarding day, or an entire week of them, is to base that day on a planned walk designed by those who know the place well. This book, and this series of books, Walk and Eat Nice (Walk & Eat) does exactly that, helping you to see the best sights, find the best food and take on an easy stroll or a more adventureous trek.