Hello. Planning a trip in August. Ricks book of France just touching the areas of Brittany that we have already visited. Any experience with other books? Thanks in advance.
Posted by
France Southwest
2322 posts
If you can read basic French, the best and most comprehensive tourist guides you can find are the Guides Vert Michelin (Green Guides) and the "Guide du Routard", in both cases there are two editions relating to Brittany. One for Southern Brittany and the other for Northern Brittany.
For example both Michelin guides, Southern + Northern contain about 1000 pages of information, text, maps, prices, timetables, hotel and restaurant addresses, etc.
Posted by
Corvallis OR
7158 posts
You don't need to read French. The Michelin Green Guide for Brittany is available in English. I used it for my trip around Brittany and found it excellent.
Posted by
France Southwest
2322 posts
The Michelin Green Guide for Brittany is available in English
Et voilà ! Thank you Nancy
Posted by
679 posts
Does Gallimard do a Brittany guide? Their other titles are fantastic.
Yo Yo, we too are planning for Brittany. Rough Guides is a worthwhile guidebook too.
Good luck.
I am done. the end
Posted by
25 posts
Hi There are also plenty of FB groups in french about Britanny.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/167257210002884
https://www.facebook.com/groups/618513315912256
https://www.facebook.com/groups/randosfinistere
https://www.facebook.com/groups/capsizun
https://www.facebook.com/larivierabretonne
And this book, even if it's not the Britanny of 2023, it's a classic.
https://www.goodreads.com/fr/book/show/705010
Posted by
OP
Nazareth, Pennsylvania
93 posts
As always, this group always comes through.
Believe it or not the Michelin green guides both English and French editions are tough to come by for some reason. Maybe an updated version coming out? One can only hope.
Posted by
Corvallis OR
7158 posts
Well, that's a bummer. Maybe there is a new version coming. It looks like the most recent version availble is from 2019 and is available on Walmart.com.
Posted by
France Southwest
2322 posts
Believe it or not the Michelin green guides both English and French
editions are tough to come by for some reason
https://www.amazon.com/guide-vert-michelin/s?k=guide+vert+michelin+bretagne
Posted by
679 posts
Must say that the DK Eyewitness book was also a pretty good resource for Brittany.
Each guidebook offered its own unique value. One of the biggest tips that we ever came across for travel in India, was found of all places...in a Lets Go guidebook.
The pinchmarks are still there.
I am done. the end.