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FRANCE
My wife and I were the main authors, and she took the photographs, for the Official Travel Guide for the Rugby World Cup, when it was held in France in 2007. We spent several weeks touring the main venue cities, and wrote the chapters on Lyon,
Marseille, Bordeaux (left), Toulouse, Montpellier, St-Etienne and Paris, as well as Cardiff
and Edinburgh in the UK. 
We've also updated guides to France and to Provence and my wife has written a guide to Nice and the Côte d'Azur (all for the AA). I've written about Cognac and champagne, learned to play pétanque in Provence, covered the Painters' Route throughout Provence and the Côte d'Azur, and met Renoir's grandson in Cagnes-sur-Mer. He was on his way to play boules.
We got engaged at the George V Hotel in Paris, so that city has always played a special place in our hearts. We wrote Dorling Kindersley's Top Ten Paris guidebook together (below), as well as Paris Revealed for the AA (right). In addition I've also written or contributed to the following guides to Paris, which include specialised guides about Paris food and drink, its Métro, and a literary history of the city:
- Time for Food: Paris (Thomas Cook)
- Colours of Paris (AA)
- Bloom's Literary Guide to Paris (Chelsea House)
- Going Underground Paris (Navigator Guides)
- Moon Metro Guide to Paris (Moon Publications)
- Paris: Yesterday and Today (Publications International, 2010)
My Discover Paris guide for Thomas Cook won a Benjamin Franklin Award in the USA for the best guidebook to Paris.
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