Guidebooks for France
Take just two: Michelin Red for hotels and restaurants, Michelin Greens for sites -
complementary, compact, useful (
www.michelin-travel.com). Yes, Michelin is incredibly chauvinist -
sites worth barely a single star in Spain get two stars in France. And it is quirky
(Michelin has never met a view it didn't extol and it tends to overrate historical value
and underrate present entertainment). Still, since everyone in France uses
Le Guide Vert, traveling via it will bring you into contact with like-minded
Americans or Europeans and create natural opportunities to strike up conversations ...
as this vacation proved.
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