lonely pkinet eek France Nicola Williams Oliver Berry, Steve Fallon, Catherine Le Nevez, Daniel Robinson, Miles Roddis

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1 161 lonely pkinet eek France Nicola Williams Oliver Berry, Steve Fallon, Catherine Le Nevez, Daniel Robinson, Miles Roddis 011

2 13 The Authors Far Northerni France 1459) Getting Started Itineraries History The Culture Environment Food & Drink Paris History Orientation Information Dangers & Annoyances Sights Activities Walking Tour Paris for Children Tours Festivals & Events Sleeping Eating Drinking Entertainment Shopping Getting There & Away Getting Around Lille Calais St-Omer La Coupole Cassel Dunkirk Cote d'opale Boulogne-sur-Mer Le Touquet Montreuil-sur-Mer Baiede Somme Arras Battle of the Somme Memorials Amiens Beauvais Compiegne Laon Normandy SEINE-MARITIME Rouen Dieppe Cote d'albatre Le Havre EURE Les Andelys Give my CALVADOS Honfleur Trouville& Deauville Caen Bayeux D-Day Beaches MANCHE Cherbourg Coutances Mont St-Michel Around j*aris J]2 La Defense 206 St-Denis 208 Disneyland Resort Paris 210 Versailles 211 Fontainebleau 214 Vaux-le-Vicomte 217 Chantilly 218 Chartres 220 NORTH COAST St-Malo Dinard Cancale Pointe du Grouin Dinan Pairnpol Cotede Granit Rose FINISTERE

3 14 CONTENTS Roscoff Morlaix Huelgoat Brest fie d'ouessant Presqu'ile decrozon Quimper Concarneau MORBIHAN COAST Lorient Carnac Quiberon Belle ile Vannes EASTERN & CENTRAL BRITTANY Josselin Foret de Paimpont Rennes Vitre Champagne Reims Around Reims Epern ay Troyes Cote des Bar Alsace & Lorraine ALSACE Strasbourg Route du Vin d'atsace Coltnar Massif des Vosges Mulhouse comusee d'alsace LORRAINE Nancy Baccarat Metz Fort du Hackenberg Verdun Verdun Battlefields American Memorials Fort de Fermont The Loire Valley \ l_l ORLfeANAIS 420 Orleans 420 Orleans to Suliy-sur-Loire 424 La Sologne 425 BLESOIS 425 Biois 425 Chateau de Chambord 429 Chateau de Cheverny 430 Chateau de Chaumont 430 TOURAINE 431 Tours 432 Around Tours 437 Chateau de Chenonceau 438 Amboise 438 Chateau de Villandry 441 Chateau d'azay-le-rideau 442 Chateau de Langeais 442 Pagode de Chanteioup 443 Loches 443 Chinon 444 ANJOU 446 Saumur & Troglodyte Valley 446 East of Saumur 448 West of Saumur 449 Angers 449 Around Angers 453 Burgundy 4fji COTE D'OR 458 Dijon 458 Cote d'or Vineyards 465 Beaune 468 Paysd'Auxois 472 Chatillon-sur-Seine 474 YONNE 475 Auxerre 475 Around Auxerre 478 Aval Ion 481 Vezelay 484 Around Ve?elay 487 REGIONAL DU MORVAN 487 Morvan Visitors Centre 487 Saulieu 488 SA6NE-ET-LOIRE 489 Autun 489 Chateau de Sully 492 Le Creusot 492 Cluny 493 North of Cluny 495 Macon 495 Lyon& _ the Rhone VaMey,_± Lyon 498 North&West of Lyon 517 St-Etienne 519 Downstream along the Rhone 520 -rench Alps & the Jura SAVOY Chamonix Meg eve & St-Gervais _es Portes du Soleil Thonon-les-Bains Annecy Around Annecy Chambety.esTrois Vallees Val d'lsere Pare National de la Vanoise DAUPHINE Grenoble Around Grenoble Briancon THE JURA 3esanc.on Around Besancon Poligny to Baume-ies-Messieurs Beifort Metabief Mont d'or Around Metabief Mont d'or Pare Naturel Regional du Haut-Jura Massif Central { Geography & Climate 585 CLERMONT-FERRAND & AROUND 585 Clermont-Ferrand 585 Around Clermont- Ferrand 591 REGIONAL DES VOLCANS D'AUVERGNE 591 Vichy 592 Orcival 596 Col de Guery 596 Le Mont-Dore 596 Around Le Mont-Dore 599 Puy Mary 600 Murat 600 REGIONAL LIVRADOIS- FOREZ 601 Thiers 602 Atnbert 602 La Chaise Dieu 603 Le Puy-en-Velay 603 Around Le Puyen-Velay 607

4 CONTENTS 15 Limousin, the Dordogne & Quercy,"j j LIMOUSIN 611 Limoges 611 Around Limoges 616 Brive-la-Gaillarde 617 Northeast of Brive 618 Southeast of Brive 619 THE DORDOGNE 621 Perigueux 621 Prehistoric Sites & the Vezere Valley 630 Dordogne Perigourdine 635 Monpazier 637 Bergerac 637 QUERCY 638 Cahors 638 EastofCahors 642 West ofcahors 646 Northern Quercy 647 Atlantic Coast lurtf History 652 Getting There & Away 652 UPPER ATLANTIC COAST 652 Nantes 652 Around Nantes 659 CENTRAL ATLANTIC COAST 659 Poitiers 659 Around Poitiers 661 La Rochelle 662 lie de Re 668 Cognac 669 LOWER ATLANTIC COAST 670 Bordeaux 670 The Medoc 680 St-Emilion 680 Arcachon 683 Around Arcachon 686 Getting There & Away 688 French Basque Country 6P? Bayonne 690 Biarritz 696 St-Jean de Luz & Ciboure 701 Around St-Jean de Luz 705 St-Jean Pied de Port 706 Around St-Jean Pied de Port 709 The Pyrenees Geography & Climate THE TOWNS Pau Lourdes Around Lourdes PARC NATIONAL DES EE THE VALLEYS Vallee d'aspe Vallee d'ossau Cauterets Vallee des Gaves & Around 733 Upper Garonne Valley 734 Vallee de I'Ariege 735 Toulouse Area Toulouse Albi Cast res Montauban Moissac Auch Condom Around Condom Languedoc- Roussillon BAS-LANGUEDOC Nimes Around Nimes Ales & Around Montpellier Around Montpellier Sete Agde Beziers Narbonne Carcassonne HAUT-LANGUEDOC Mende Around Mende Pare National des Cevennes 789 Florae 790 Gorges du Tarn 791 Pare Naturel Regional des Grands Causses 793 Millau 794 Around Millau 797 ROUSSILLON 798 Perpignan 798 Around Perpignan 803 Tet Valley 804 Cote Vermeille 805 Provence MARSEILLE REGION 810 Marseille 810 Aix-en-Provence 824 ARLES&THECAMARGUE 831 Aries The Camargue THE VAUCLUSE Avignon Around Avignon Orange Vaison-la-Romaine Mont Ventoux Carpentras Fontaine de Vaucluse The Luberon NORTHEASTERN PROVENCE Gorges du Verdon Digne-les-Bains The Provence Alps Cote d'azur & Monaco, NICE TO TOULON 867 Nice 867 Antibes-Juan-les-Pins 881 Biot 883 St-PauldeVence& Around 883 Cannes 884 Grasse 891 Massif de I'Esterel 892 Frejus & St-Raphael 892 St-Tropez 894 St-Tropez to Toulon 897 Toulon 899 NICETOMENTON 902 TheCorniches 902 Menton 904 MONACO (PRINCIPAUTE DE MONACO) 906 Corsica _ BASTIA AREA Bastia Cap Corse THE NORTH COAST lie Rousse (Isula Rossa) La Balagne Calvi PORTO TO AJACCIO Porto (Portu] Evisa

5 16 CONTENTS Piana Les Calanques Cargese (Carghjese] Ajaccio (Ajacciu) SOUTH OF AJACCIO Sartene (Sarte) Bonifacio (Bunifaziu) CORTE AREA Corte (Corti) Around Corte Directory Accommodation Activities Business Houis Children Climate Courses Customs Dangers & Annoyances Discount Cards Embassies & Consulates Festivals & Events Food Gay & Lesbian Travellers Holidays Insurance Internet Access Legal Matters Local Government Maps Money Photography & Video Post Shopping Solo Travellers Telephone Time Tourist Information Travellers with Disabilities Visas D Volunteering Women Travellers Work Transport GETTING THERE & AWAY Entering the Country Air Land Sea GETTING AROUND Air Bicycle Boat Bus Car & Motorcycle Hitching Local Transport Tours Train SH Health BEFORE YOU GO Insurance Recommended Vaccinations IN TRANSIT Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT] Jet Lag IN FRANCE Availability & Cost of Health Care Diarrhoea Environmental Hazards Sexual Health Travelling with Children Women's Health 986 Language Glossary^,. Behind the^scenes lndex_ a 1 WoridTjmeJonesj Map Legend *