Product Description

The Cicerone - Cycling the River Loire guidebook covers the 1370KM way of St. Martin route along the River Loire in France, the route is broken down into 23 stages. It includes a dramatic approach from Orange in Provence to the source of the River Loire at Le Gerbier de Jonc, then a route alongside the whole of the river with its vineyards and castles to the Atlantic at St Nazaire. Best season for use is in the late spring and late summer.Severe weather conditions in winter, especially in the Massif Central. High summer can be very busy and hot, with flies and midgies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156372 in Books
• Brand: Cicerone
• Published on: 2003-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
John Higginson has been a long-distance fell walker for many years. Having been a keen cyclist in his youth, he took up long-distance cycling in Europe a few years after he retired from the post of headmaster of a Cheshire primary school. He is now a writer and lecturer. He and his wife, Andrea, who have ridden both south to north and east to west across France, the length of the medieval pilgrimage route from Le Puy-en-Velay in France to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, and the Danube Cycleway from Donaueschingen to Budapest, spent many years touring in the Loire valley before embarking on this book which describes the route and its myriad places of interest. John Higginson has also written The Way of St James - Le Puy to Santiago, a Cyclists' Guide (Cicerone, 1999) and The Danube Cycleway - Donaueschingen to Budapest (Cicerone, 2003).