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Ultimate Insider's Guide to the Tour de France

SUNDAY, 26 APRIL 2009


Boulder, CO, USA - Each July, millions of cycling fans head to France to experience the world's greatest bike race. Unless they've planned carefully, they'll arrive to find full hotels, blocked routes, overpriced food, chaotic roads, and endless frustration as they try to get close to the race they've come to see.

Available in the UK this April, Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide provides cycling fans with a complete insider's guide to the Tour. As the Tour's leading photographer, Graham Watson has been in the right place at the right time during every Tour de France since 1977. No one knows how to get around the Tour like Graham. Now, cycling fans can experience all the excitement of the Tour while negotiating its many daily obstacles with the confidence of a local. Learn where to eat, where to sleep, how to get around, how to see and photograph the race, and how to enjoy the greatest show on two wheels.

The book will be available in the U.K. at good bookshops or direct from www.cordee.co.uk in late April. Review copies are available for the media.

Graham shares his 31 years of Tour de France experience in this beautifully illustrated guidebook. Featuring over 200 of Graham's award-winning photographs along with full-colour maps, travel tips, checklists, and travel resources, this book presents a fresh and unique strategy for getting around the Tour's many daily obstacles to find a front-row seat for all the action.

Presented in sturdy, flexible binding with flaps for marking pages, Graham's guide also includes a clever menu decoder for quick reference when the waiter is tapping his pad, tips on how to meet the riders, a glossary of French cycling terms, historical perspective on each region of France visited by the Tour, and a special chapter on how to photograph the Tour like a pro. For the Tour's legion of fans, Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide contains everything they need to watch, follow, and enjoy the Tour de France in style.

Graham Watson's Tour de France Travel Guide: The Complete Insider's Guide to the Tour!
Text and photographs by Graham Watson
200mm x 143mm, 304 pp., CTB959, £17.99, 978-1-934030-38-7
Flexibound paperback with flaps. Full-colour photos, maps, charts, and tables throughout.

* Since 1903 the Tour de France has visited over 500 towns and villages. Watson has followed every stage of 31 Tours de France, a pedigree few can match.

* A completely modern guide, annotated with Web sites and the latest contact information for hotels, restaurants, trains, car rental, bike rental, camping, tourist information, and more.

* Lavish 4-colour interior, handy size, and flexible binding with flaps make this travel guide inviting, durable, and easy to use.

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