Walking the Hexagon
Subtitle: an Escape Around France on Foot
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Luton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781908493712; 9781908493705; 9781908493033
Subjects: Journeys; Walking; Description and travel; TRAVEL; Travel; Voyages and travels
Description: Why would a man retire from his job and take off on a unique 4,000-mile walk around France? What possessed him to wear out his sixty-year-old hips and knees when he could spend a comfortable retirement at home? In this fascinating book Terry Cudbird reveals the obsession which is long distance walking--the intoxicating freedom to go where you want, the escape from the complications and paraphernalia of everyday life, the unpredictable encounters. His itinerary covered the six sides of the Fr ...
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Dedication; Publisher Information; Walking the Hexagon; Introduction: Why Walk?; 1. The Pyrenees; 2. The Country of the Cathars; 3. Wine and Wind; 4. The Cévennes and the Ardèche; 5. The Rhône and the Alps of Upper Provence; 6. The Alps; 7. The Jura; 8. Alsace and the Vosges Mountains; 9. From Lorraine to the Northern Plains; 10. From "Le Nord" to the Channel; 11. Normandy; 12. Brittany; 13. The Vendée and the Saintonge; 14. Aquitaine; End Matter; Postscript; Acknowledgements; Also Available.