Tents are back! Time Out's essential guide to camping
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Essential Camping Reading
Time Out South of France
Time
Out’s newly updated South of France guide (£12.99) covers Provence and
the Côte d’Azur in expert detail and is especially useful for those
camping near the coastal region with its myriad beautiful towns. Alan
Rogers France 2006You could happily pick any site with the aid of this
indispensable, annually updated guide (£12.99). It’s well-researched
and because it features short descriptive reviews of selected sites
(around 650 of them), it makes choosing a campsite a great deal easier
than trawling the internet. Alan Rogers also publishes a guide
to British campsites.
Michelin Camping France
For
a fully comprehensive list of every campsite in France, look no further
than the camper’s bible (£10.99). This informative bilingual book uses
tiny symbols to denote the various facilities available at sites across
the country. It takes an age to work it all out, but it’s worth it.
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Michelin Green Guides
These
informative guides (£12.99-£14.99) cover various regions of France
including holiday hotspots like the Dordogne, Atlantic Coast, Brittany
and the French Alps. They’re well written, comprehensive and easy to
carry around.
Michelin road maps
It’s Michelin
again. Go for the large yellow ‘Tourist and Motoring Atlas’ (£13.99);
it’s extremely easy to read within the confines of a car, and marks
every campsite in the country with a little black triangle.
Cool Camping
It
seems that more and more folk are jumping on the camping bandwagon and
as if to qualify that fact, Jonathan Knight has written this fabulous
guide (Punk Publishing £16.95) to ‘40 exceptional sites’ in Britain,
replete with decent descriptions and many lovely photographs. A very
handy read for those not yet ready for venturing beyond these shores.
Derek Adams and Jessica Eveleigh
Time Out London: April 12-19 2006
