Well, the preparations for the trip are generally going well, and today I’d like to introduce one of the things we’ll be taking with us: the road map and official guidebook.
ご参考:road mapとofficial guideブック
All products of our shop (Anglais) | Les plus beaux villages de France – Site officiel
http://www.les-plus-beaux-villages-de-france.org/en/shop
これらは、昨年の美しい村巡りの際に現地で購入したもの。「Belcastel(ベルカステル)」という村のインフォで購入しました。こちらはご覧のような村です。
I thought it would be easy to buy it locally, but surprisingly, it was hard to get it because some shops were closed.
road map
The size of the map is 1:1,000,000, which means that the whole of France is on the map. The inside of the map looks like this, and the places where there are beautiful villages are marked with the symbols.
The base is the familiar « Michelin » map. It can be said that it is the most standard road map in France.
It is easy to measure the distance to the destination because 1cm=10km, but it may be a little difficult to tour around the village with only this because detailed roads and place names are not listed. No, I don’t think so. (Actually, I completely forgot that I had bought this map until today.
official guide
Here are the contents of the official guidebook.
It contains not only village descriptions, photos and maps, but also information about restaurants and hotels. This time, we are going to arrange accommodation locally every day during the trip, so this page may be very helpful.
(ちなみにこのページの村にも昨年行きました。「La Couvertoirade(ラ・クヴェルトワラード)」)
Last year was the first time for us to visit the most beautiful villages in France, but this year we have a lot of information and know-how because we have done it once before, so we can plan very efficiently.
出発まであと2週間をきりました。