Walking Easy in the Italian & French Alps (Walking Guides).Walking Easy in the Italian & French Alps (Walking Guides)
Enjoy the wonderful summer walking trails found in the Alpine regions of Italy and France. Using this guide and its maps, you can explore beautiful foot paths through mountain meadows and hamlets. Choose routes starting from one of the seventeen base villages selected by the authors for their magnificent mountain locales, charm, availability of public transportation, and accommodations. Rated at one of three levels of ease (gentle, comfortable, and more challenging), each walk takes from two to four hours, excluding ‘take in the view’ breaks or picnics along the way.

Michelin the Green Guide French Alps (Michelin Green Guide: French Alps).Michelin the Green Guide French Alps (Michelin Green Guide: French Alps)
This tour book is more detailed than general books on France. It provides websites, small maps, small city maps, driving tours, excellent history of the towns, and recommended sight-seeing.

Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE French Alps.Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE French Alps, 1e (THE GREEN GUIDE)
This title in the acclaimed Michelin Green Guide series covers a vast mountainous region extending from Lake Geneva south to the Grand Canyon du Verdon, close to the Mediterranean. It is an area of wild natural beauty and striking contrasts from the snow-capped peaks, glaciers, forested slopes, rich mountain pastures and lakes of Savoie and Dauphine to the sunny valleys of Brianconnais and Queyras and the arid landscapes of Haute Provence dotted with picturesque hilltop villages and bathed in the unique Mediterranean light.

The French Alps News

  1. British Airways traffic falls 2.9% in August - ShareCast
    British Airways traffic falls 2.9% in AugustShareCast… the Alps. A new service between London's City Airport and Chambery, 'the gateway to the French Alps', will run between December 18 and the end of March.and more »…
  2. The battle to save wild animals - The Connexion
    The ConnexionThe battle to save wild animalsThe ConnexionWe felt they were likely to start coming back to France and it was important to act [today they are established again in the French Alps]. …
  3. Plumber training courses could help technicians understand regulations - Able Skills Construction Training
    Plumber training courses could help technicians understand regulationsAble Skills Construction TrainingThe same publication has noted that another local plumber - Keith Hooper - has decided to attempt three climbs in the French Alps in three days, …
  4. Charity holiday auction - Saffron Walden Reporter
    Charity holiday auctionSaffron Walden ReporterStarting at 1pm there will be amazing items up for grabs including a romantic London break, an adventure week in a Normandy, a holiday in the French Alps, …
  5. Travel News: BA To Fly London City To Chambery This Winter - OnTheSnow.com
    Travel News: BA To Fly London City To Chambery This WinterOnTheSnow.comBritish Airways is set to launch a new flight route from London City Airport to Chambery Airport in the French Alps this winter. …
  6. Nazi Collaborators Executed In France (PHOTOS): Chilling Images From LIFE.com - Huffington Post (blog)
    Nazi Collaborators Executed In France (PHOTOS): Chilling Images From LIFE.comHuffington Post (blog)… LIFE photographer Carl Mydans and correspondent John Osborne were eyewitnesses to a grisly affair in the foothills of the French Alps. On September 2, …
  7. Eurostar Launches New Route to French Alps for Ski Season - GoTimeshare.org
    Eurostar Launches New Route to French Alps for Ski SeasonGoTimeshare.org… International in London, and Ashford International station in Kent, to the French Alps, calling at Moûtiers, Aime-La-Plagne and Bourg St Maurice. …