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[QUOTE="andycohn, post: 1239771, member: 19805"] Just put 2 + 2 together, and realized you're Jacint Mig, the author of the Cicerone guide! As I said, I definitely found your book useful and informative, and was also grateful for the terrific pictures, and the continuing commentary on Stevenson and Modestine, but for nitty-gritty, I did turn more to MMD. The Cicerone book also features very precise point-to-point directions, which is very useful, although I myself now rely more on my phone app (mapy,cz) than on written directions when the markers on the ground are unclear. So what I personally appreciated in the MMD guide was the detailed overall maps, and the inclusion on them of the frequent alternatives. This allowed me to make informed decisions day-to-day between alternatives which I would not have known about had I relied solely on the Cicerone edition. Ironically, we actually followed the old route into St. Jean du Gard, as then shown (exclusively) in the Cicerone guidebook. But MMD showed both the old and new routes, and using mapy.cz, I was able to calculate that the old route would save us about 100 meters of climbing on a day that was already reasonably strenuous. The turn-off onto the old route is no longer indicated on the ground, but since I knew it was there, I was easily able to pinpoint it with mapy.cz, and once we were a couple hundred meters down the trail, the markings picked up again. Overall, the old route on that stretch remains perfectly walkable, but there's an extra kilometer or so of tarmac at the end, where the trail next to the river was wiped out. Similarly, MMD shows both the new route and the longer old route out of Luc, whereas the Cicerone book shows only the new route, which heads south from Luc along the road. Apprised of choices, and aided again by mapy.cz, we opted for the old route, which first loops north from Luc and whose initial markers, like on the old route to St. Jean du Gard, have been removed. While substantially longer, the old route was gorgeous and avoided walking near the road. (This is distinct from the variant out to the monastery, which both books discuss). And as I indicated above, the inclusion of the parallel Regordane was also helpful in MMD. Once or twice we took short-cuts along it, which enabled us to "rationalize" some of the stages. Very glad to hear that Cicerone is re-working its handling of maps. I have a shelfful of its books, but the maps are my least favorite part. And thank you so much for your work on this guide. I offer the details above not to be critical, but only to offer suggestions from the point of view of Average Joe walker (or Average Andy, in my case). [/QUOTE]
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