By admin | October 14, 2008
One of my favorite books about walking in France is France on Foot
: Village to Village, Hotel to Hotel: How to Walk the French Trail System on Your Own. Bruce LeFavour, a professional chef with a penchant for get-away hiking with fine food and wine at the end of each day’s trail, describes his years of hiking the French Grandes Randonnées, his thorough planning, and how he creates his own custom guidebooks. He makes it sound easy and fun, and this is the book that helped push me to take my first long-distance steps.
Published in 1999, this book predates much of the recent developments in ultralight gear and technique, and his gear list may seem a bit “vintage” by today’s standards, but one of my favorite things about France on Foot is how LeFavour intentionally designed the book to be too big to take along. A Highly recommended, valuable planning resource for all longwalkers ad lightweight travelers.
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