Provence -- help with Michelin maps
 

I'll be driving around the Luberon area of Provence in September and need to know which Michelin maps to get. I will be going as far west as Uzes, and then through St Remy to and around the Luberon.
Also, could someone recommend an internet site for buying Michelin maps?
Thanks!

Hi PS,

Go to http://tinyurl.com/k8kfe and select your maps.

((I))

Thanks, Ira--I just ordered the one for the Alpes Maritime.

If you're at all 20th-century history-minded, check out #103, <u>The Battle of Provence</u>.

Amazon are selling the same [I guess] maps for &pound;3.95 each in the UK. I think that's cheaper [plus free p&amp;p if you spend over &pound;21]. Don't know about the US though.

Michelin map no. 340 Local (yellow map 1/175.000) = Bouches-du-Rh&ocirc;ne / Var.

The best map to get is #113 (scale 1/160,000). People have been reporting here that it's hard to get this map in the US. We were in France last month, and there were plenty of them there with a publication date of 4/06.

If you get the 300 series maps, you will need two - #332 (scale 1/150,000) for St Remy &amp; Luberon, and #339 for Uzes.

You could also get #528 which covers all of Provence &amp; the Cote d'Azur, but it's on a 1/200,000 scale and you will be squinting quite a bit when traveling in the Luberon - where all the sites are close together.

Stu Dudley

Thank you all! Stu, I may just go ahead and buy it in France since Provence is towards the middle/end of my trip and I'll hopefully have many opportunities to find that map. And Ira, that is a great website for all sorts of things.

Just a caveat: when I was in France a year ago I had trouble finding the maps I wanted at the highway stops. It seemed by the time I found the map I wanted I was already in the middle of the area and had muddled my way to where I was going. Next time, I'm buying them ahead.

We've had that experience too and learned to buy maps as soon as we could find them. Typically the ones for the region were were visiting had sold out before we got there.

We always buy our maps ahead. They're easy to fine here in Belgium.

bookmarking

Just wanted to follow up on this -- I ended up ordering both 113 and 339 from Language Quest. I was curious to see how much more detail there was in the 300 series. After looking at both maps I think I could definitely have just gone with 113 -- there is not a huge difference in the level of detail -- but will keep both now that I have them. And man, these maps are huge!!