Product Description

Each July hundreds of thousands of fans head to France to watch its great annual bike race. But unless they've planned carefully, they'll arrive to find full hotels, blocked routes, overpriced food, chaotic roads, and endless frustration as they try to get close to the race they've come to see. "Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide" provides the ultimate insider's access from one of the Tour's most experienced old hands. In his 31 years of following and photographing the race, Watson has mastered the Tour's daily challenges - where to eat, where to sleep, how to get around, how to see and photograph the race, and most of all, how to enjoy the greatest show on two wheels. Now Graham shares it all in his beautifully illustrated guidebook. Featuring hundreds of Graham's award-winning photographs along with full-colour maps, travel tips, checklists, and travel resources, this book presents a fresh and unique strategy for getting around the Tour's many daily obstacles to find a front-row seat for all the action. Presented in a durable Flexibound binding, Graham's guide also includes a clever menu decoder for quick reference when the waiter is tapping his pad, tips on how to meet the riders, a glossary of French cycling terms, historical perspective on each region of France visited by the Tour, and a special chapter on how to photograph the Tour like a pro. For the Tour's legion of fans, "Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide" contains everything they need to watch, follow, and enjoy the Tour de France in style. Paperback with colour photos, maps, charts, and tables throughout. This is a completely modern guide, annotated with Web sites and the latest contact information for hotels, restaurants, trains, car rental, bike rental, camping, tourist information, and more. A lavish 4-colour interior, handy size, and flexible binding with flaps make this travel guide inviting, durable, and easy to use. With its maps, checklists, travel resources, French menu decoder, and inside tips, this is the perfect travel companion for the Tour de France's multitude of annual fans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #100219 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Graham Watson lives in England and has devoted his celebrated career to the art of cycling photography. He has covered the Tour since his professional debut in 1977. An oenophile and gastronome, Graham has collected an extensive library of information on the best restaurants, hotels, bistros, brasseries, bars and auberges of France which is now shared.