Ahead of (fingers crossed) a month away in France, I thought I might as well update my two favourite maps of l'Hexagone, my old copies being well over 10 or 15 years old.
The blue coloured 726 map is Michelin’s excellent route planning map, which strips out all the minor roads, towns and villages, leaving just the motorways, the main trunk roads, the great Bis tourist routes and (where appropriate) the D roads that link them up.
The red 792 map is Michelin’s reversible (top on one side, the bottom on the other) ‘waterproof’ map of France. This carries more detail with it, so it is ‘busier’ than the 726 map, but not so intimately detailed as the dedicated yellow covered local / regional maps.
Usefully, the scale 1cm = 10km (or one inch = 15.8 miles, for those who do not do foreign) is the same on both maps.
Unless you particularly want every goat track and two house hamlet (few do) these two maps, with a combined price of just two and a half pints of London Pride, will do you well enough.... and last an awful lot longer.
Buy and use with confidence.
The blue coloured 726 map is Michelin’s excellent route planning map, which strips out all the minor roads, towns and villages, leaving just the motorways, the main trunk roads, the great Bis tourist routes and (where appropriate) the D roads that link them up.
The red 792 map is Michelin’s reversible (top on one side, the bottom on the other) ‘waterproof’ map of France. This carries more detail with it, so it is ‘busier’ than the 726 map, but not so intimately detailed as the dedicated yellow covered local / regional maps.
Usefully, the scale 1cm = 10km (or one inch = 15.8 miles, for those who do not do foreign) is the same on both maps.
Unless you particularly want every goat track and two house hamlet (few do) these two maps, with a combined price of just two and a half pints of London Pride, will do you well enough.... and last an awful lot longer.
Buy and use with confidence.
