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THE RIVER RHONE CYCLE ROUTE
From the Alps to the Mediterranean
by Mike Wells
2 POLICE SQUARE, MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA LA7 7PY
About the Author
Mike Wells has been a keen long distance cyclist for over 25 years. Starting with UK Sustrans routes, including the C2C across northern England and Lon Las Cymru in Wales, he moved on to long distance routes in continental Europe and beyond. These include cycling both the Camino and Ruta de la Plata to Santiago de la Compostela, an end-to-end traverse of Cuba, a circumnavigation of Iceland and a trip across Lapland to the North Cape.
This is the fifth in a series of cycling guides Mike has written for Cicerone, following the great rivers of Europe from their source. Previously he worked in the travel industry, organising and escorting tours all over Europe, including to many of the places visited in this book. While preparing this guide he cycled the entire route twice and explored various alternative routes before deciding which was the more attractive to describe in detail.
Other Cicerone guides by the author
The Adlerweg
The Rhine Cycle Route
The Moselle Cycle Route
The Danube Cycleway Volume 1
The Danube Cycleway Volume 2
© Mike Wells 2016
First edition 2016
ISBN-13: 978 1 85284 755 5
Printed by KHL Printing, Singapore
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.
Contains OpenStreetMap.org data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. NASA relief data courtesy of ESRI
Updates to this Guide
While every effort is made by our authors to ensure the accuracy of guidebooks as they go to print, changes can occur during the lifetime of an edition. Any updates that we know of for this guide will be on the Cicerone website (www.cicerone.co.uk/755/updates), so please check before planning your trip. We also advise that you check information about such things as transport, accommodation and shops locally. Even rights of way can be altered over time.
The route maps in this guide are derived from publicly-available data, databases and crowd-sourced data. As such they have not been through the detailed checking procedures that would generally be applied to a published map from an official mapping agency, although naturally we have reviewed them closely in the light of local knowledge as part of the preparation of this guide.
We are always grateful for information about any discrepancies between a guidebook and the facts on the ground, sent by email to [email protected] or by post to Cicerone, 2 Police Square, Milnthorpe LA7 7PY, United Kingdom.
Front cover: Château de Chillon sits beside Lake Geneva near Montreux (Stage 4)
CONTENTS
Stage 2 Brig to Sierre
Stage 3 Sierre to Martigny
Stage 4 Martigny to Montreux
Stage 5 Montreux to Morges
Stage 6 Morges to Geneva
Stage 5A Le Bouveret to Thonon-les-Bains
Stage 6A Thonon-les-Bains to Geneva
Stage 7 Geneva to Seyssel
France
Stage 8 Seyssel to Champagneux dam
Stage 9 Champagneux dam to Lagnieu
Stage 10 Lagnieu to Lyon
Stage 11 Lyon to Vienne
Stage 12 Vienne to Sablons
Stage 13 Sablons to Tournon-sur-Rhône
Stage 14 Tournon-sur-Rhône to Valence
Stage 15 Valence to Le Pouzin
Stage 16 Le Pouzin to Montélimar
Stage 17 Montélimar to Pont-St Esprit
Stage 18 Pont-St Esprit to Avignon
Stage 19 Avignon to Arles
Stage 20 Arles to Port-St Louis-du-Rhône