Drive Around Provence & the Cote d'Azur: Your guide to great drives (Drive Around - Thomas Cook) [Paperback]

Andrew Sanger (Author)

Book Description

Series: Drive Around - Thomas Cook | Publication Date: April 1, 2005

Drive around Provence and the Côte d'Azur features the Camargue, the Vaucluse, the Alpes-Maritimes and the Riviera.


" Ideas for exploring on your own
" Detailed guides to sightseeing and activities, together with accommodation, dining and shopping recommendations
" Attractions and areas all rated to guide your personal choice
" Road maps and city plans pinpoint driving routes and other tours
" Walking routes around towns and cities

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

An indispensable guide to driving around Provence and the Cote d'Azur featuring the Camargue, the Vaucluse, the Alpes-Maritimes and the Riviera.

Highlights include:

* Top 25 tours
* Fully comprehensive driver's guide including road signs
* Full-color detailed maps with major destinations clearly pinpointed
* Walking tours around towns and cities
* Detailed guides to sightseeing, activities, dining and accommodation
* Ideas for exploring on your own

About the Author

Andrew Sanger is a well-established freelance travel writer who has contributed hundreds of travel articles to British newspapers and magazines and has written over twenty-five guidebooks, mostly about regions of France.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Cook Publishing; 1st edition (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841574716
• ISBN-13: 978-1841574714
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #964,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #68 in Books > Travel > Europe > France > Provence

More About the Author

I'm the author of The J-Word. After thirty years as a travel journalist and guidebook writer, I found myself wanting to write about something much closer to home.

My first novel, The J-Word was published in the UK in 2009 by Snowbooks (and released in the US in 2010). I'm glad to say it was very well received and has had excellent reviews. It's set in Golders Green, a Jewish district in London, England.

The J-Word has been featured at London's Jewish Book Week and Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival. To read about The J-Word and see what reviewers thought of it, see http://www.andrewsanger.com/The-J-Word

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The J-Word tells the story of an elderly Jewish man called Jack Silver. I say he's Jewish, but he flatly denies it. Jack is resolutely secular and long ago repudiated everything Jewish. He likes to think of himself as English. Jack is asked to come to Golders Green (London's largest Jewish neighborhood) to care for his 10-year-old grandson, Danny. Of course, the brilliant young Danny knows nothing at all about his Jewish heritage, and Jack's certainly not about to discuss it with him.

When Jack is beaten up by an antisemitic gang, it changes everything. At first, Jack is helped by a more religious Jew, who advises him to go to the police. But Jack doesn't do that. He and Danny secretly set out to outwit and track down the thugs and bring them to justice. The hunt takes Jack into memories of his own childhood and the two unlikely heroes discover a shared identity spanning generations that eventually draws the whole family together.

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Apart from The J-Word, I've written about thirty travel guides, mainly to different regions of France - especially Provence, Languedoc, Burgundy and Picardy - but also to Flanders, Lanzarote, Tenerife, Ireland and Israel. Some have been successful, and most of them have been translated into several languages. I've contributed to a wide spectrum of British national newspapers, magazines and websites, too, and for ten years I was the editor of French Railways' customer magazine.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Our Most-Used Source, August 21, 2006

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J. Haworth (Boston, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drive Around Provence & the Cote d'Azur: Your guide to great drives (Drive Around - Thomas Cook) (Paperback)

This book is worth the price and the last-minute shipping that we needed to get it to us before our flight to France. We referred to it constantly. We used it to select which drives to take on a given day, and it is of great value here. Readers may disagree with some of the star-ratings on certain sites (and sights), but this is to be expected and one should calibrate oneself against the views of the author. For example, we would rate Aix-en-Provence lower, Nimes lower, and the upper Vaucluse in general higher. Once you see where your tastes lie (Roman ruins more interesting than Vacqueyras tasting?) then you will know how to use the book to its best advantage. Highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better Maps, Please!, June 8, 2007

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Douglas R. Mann (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drive Around Provence & the Cote d'Azur: Your guide to great drives (Drive Around - Thomas Cook) (Paperback)

The content reflected a great appreciation of this part of France, and the general route information very useful, photos attractive and representational, but I found the format somewhat awkward. Some of the sidebar infomation would have better been included in the text, e.g. specific driving instructions within towns. The maps were weakest feature; some of the route maps were so cluttered that I needed a detailed road map to make sense of the proposed route.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phew, July 8, 2007

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L.J. (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drive Around Provence & the Cote d'Azur: Your guide to great drives (Drive Around - Thomas Cook) (Paperback)

If your renting a car and traveling this book really helped. It gives you for example the parking places in Aix and roads to use-its right on. The sites it picked are well thought out and "no-nonsense".
I think its worth the weight during the trip we took.