The Loire Cycle Route. Mike Wells

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      Mike Wells has been a keen long distance cyclist for over 25 years. Starting with UK Sustrans routes, including the C2C across northern England and Lôn Las Cymru in Wales, he moved on to long distance routes in continental Europe and beyond. These include cycling both the Camino and Ruta de la Plata to Santiago de la Compostela, an end-to-end traverse of Cuba, a circumnavigation of Iceland and a trip across Lapland to the North Cape.

      This is the sixth in a series of cycling guides Mike has written for Cicerone, following the great rivers of Europe from their source. Previously he worked in the travel industry, organising and escorting tours all over Europe, including to many of the places visited in this book. While preparing this guide he cycled the entire route twice and explored various alternative routes before deciding which was the more attractive to describe in detail.

      Other Cicerone guides by the author

      The Adlerweg

      The Rhine Cycle Route

      The Moselle Cycle Route

      The Danube Cycleway Volume 1

      The Danube Cycleway Volume 2

      The River Rhone Cycle Route

      © Mike Wells 2017

      First edition 2017

      ISBN-13: 978 1 85284 842 2

      This guidebook replaces Cycling the River Loire written by John Higginson and published by Cicerone in 2003.

      Printed in China on behalf of Latitude Press Ltd

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.

       Route mapping by Lovell Johns www.lovelljohns.com

      Contains OpenStreetMap.org data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. NASA relief data courtesy of ESRI

      Updates to this Guide

      While every effort is made by our authors to ensure the accuracy of guidebooks as they go to print, changes can occur during the lifetime of an edition. Any updates that we know of for this guide will be on the Cicerone website (www.cicerone.co.uk/842/updates), so please check before planning your trip. We also advise that you check information about such things as transport, accommodation and shops locally. Even rights of way can be altered over time.

      The route maps in this guide are derived from publicly-available data, databases and crowd-sourced data. As such they have not been through the detailed checking procedures that would generally be applied to a published map from an official mapping agency, although naturally we have reviewed them closely in the light of local knowledge as part of the preparation of this guide.

      We are always grateful for information about any discrepancies between a guidebook and the facts on the ground, sent by email to [email protected] or by post to Cicerone, 2 Police Square, Milnthorpe LA7 7PY, United Kingdom.

      Front cover: Sully-sur-Loire Château is one of the prettiest châteaux on the Loire

      CONTENTS

       Map key

       Overview map

       Introduction

       Background

       The route

       Natural environment

       Preparation

       Getting there and back

       Navigation

       Accommodation

       Food and drink

       Amenities and services

       What to take

       Safety and emergencies

       About this guide

       THE LOIRE CYCLE ROUTE

       Prologue Getting to the start

      Upper Loire

      Stage 1 Gerbier de Jonc to Goudet

       Stage 2 Goudet to Le Puy-en-Velay

       Stage 3 Le Puy-en-Velay to Retournac

       Stage 4 Retournac to Aurec-sur-Loire

       Stage 5 Aurec-sur-Loire to Feurs

       Stage 6 Feurs to Roanne

       Stage 7 Roanne to Digoin

      Middle Loire

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