Anyway I found an excellent new book - Lonely Planet
'Cycling France'. It is about half the size of the
regular LP France book and appears to contain
everything a cyclist would need on such a trip - about
100 pages on general cycling info and over 400 more on
specific tours and places to stay and things to see.
It has such details such as which hostels allow
bicycles, French words for bike parts, how to read a
train timetable.... It even has seven pages on the TdF
and NINE on randonnering including some descriptions
of the 'permanent brevets'. This is the ONE book I
will take with me. More details when I get back.
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