Vacances Languedoc Roussillon

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Summary: I am sending it back
Review: I really don't like this kind of travel book and was very disappointed when I received it. It skims over the most obvious tourist attractions of each town filling half the pages with photos (of things like a lion at the zoo in that town - like we can't all picture what the lion looks like).

It's probably a personal preference - if you like LP and Rough Guide I'd say this is way too glossy and general for you.

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Summary: Hachette & Michelin: Unbeatable
Review: We buy every guide to the Languedoc Roussillon that we can, to stock the shelves for renters in our French vacation home. There are two indispensable volumes: the Michelin green guide, which leaves no historical stone unturned; and this new Hachette guide for the region. The Hachette guidebooks bill themselves as "France by the French." The Languedoc guide is exceptional fare: it has enticing overviews of food & drink specialties, restaurants, wines, home furnishings (!), castles, other history (this area has been settled FOREVER), sports, festivals and the arts. There are a dozen preplanned itineraries you can adopt. And an extraordinarily rich level of reporting, with magnificent photography. My test for a new guidebook is this: Does it tell me something new about a place I thought I knew? The Hachette does just that, over and over.