Download or read book Dordogne Valleys and Villages Queue Sheets (2nd Edition) written by Walter Moore and published by Walter Judson Moore Imprints. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This QUEUE SHEETS companion guide (WITH JUST THE MAPS WAYPOINTS AND PROFILES, - the guidebook details the interesting places along the routes) is for the 3rd in the BICYCLE YOUR FRANCE GUIDEBOOK series, DOEDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES.Color is used throughout for clear understanding of directions, maps and elevation profiles.The book is 9" wide by 6" high, a more suitable size to fit in a bike map case.All Eighteen routes (4 with alternates) have a 1-page map, a profile and tested segment directions. This, my third cycling guidebook, contains 15 (12 with alternates) new and original routes with comprehensive maps, elevation profiles, point to point and turn directions, restaurants and orientation features plus detail maps for the towns with extra complexity. Color maps for each route have photographs that help visualize the ride.I created the guide to increases the value of any cyclist's precious vacation or holiday time. The guide helps you anticipate what to expect, thus reducing travel stress, and manage costs. To augment your observations, the route sections include 61 histories and descriptions of villages and prehistory.As with the first two guides, bicycling routes are all loops that end where they start. The tested concepts are to stay overnight in one place for a week and get to know something more about that place and the people who live there. Cycling in this area of France may be considered strenuous. Geographically, the large area east of Argentat is the Massif Central. The Dordogne Rivière's headwaters are here. The river flows generally west, cutting through the limestone plateau. Glaciers from the most recent ice age, the Dordogne and its tributaries have created gorges with, a U-shaped cross-section having steep sides. The altitude change from the river up to the plateau often exceeds 300 meters with road ascents to the tops frequently more than 6%.DORDOGNE VALLEYS AND VILLAGES expands your understanding of a gracious culture and the delight of bicycling in this exceptional region. These welcoming and friendly people live a history stretching back over 17,000 years. They seem incapable of serving anything but fine food and drink. Their dwellings, roads, bridges and railways last hundreds of years. Flowers grow around many houses and highlight village squares. The pride practiced in agriculture is like artwork.A cyclist appreciates these traits better than most who examine the world. On a bicycle you pedal up and coast down hills, on less traveled roads and through villages. You will engage small slopes, big hills, narrow roads, winding lanes, hamlets and bustling market towns.-If you have any questions or comments on this area of France, please contact me here in Florida USA (I travel for the next guidebook in the spring) at [email protected] - also on Facebook (Walter Judson Moore). And thank you.