Michelin Green Guides for free

[Wapping]

Well, a thinned down version anyway.

Michelin has a free to use, really quite good (if basic) route creation website:

ViaMichelin: Route planner, Maps, Traffic info, Hotels

Explore ViaMichelin, your guide to mobility. Interactive map, itineraries, charging stations, accommodations, restaurants and tourist attractions. Plan your adventure now!

www.viamichelin.co.uk

What some people maybe don’t realise is that the same website also has tabs for hotels, restaurants and things to maybe see and do.

Here’s an example, using the website’s Green Guide tab.

1. Tap on the Green Guide tab. The map will fill with green icons, which you can tap on. If you see one with a number in it, it means that there are several close by. Tap or zoom in:



2. Here’s an example, tapping on Uckfield:



Up pops:



4. Tap around in the pop-up to find out more:





The same website will even create you a route to get there, avoiding motorways and tolls (natch).

It’s all free, so play and tap around. You can’t break it.

 

[EVskiy]

Great stuff Richard. I seem to recall seeing this feature when I have used the app more often a few years ago now, however completely forgot about the "green guide" bit. This will save me the need to buy an uptodate paperback version* for our forthcoming tour of Moselle valley and stay in Cochem. Fabulous stuff, Stank you for reminding me

A fair few things to see and do over there...




*seem a bit of a rocking horse dung.

 

[Wapping]

Thank you.

I am still using Green Guides of my father’s that are probably thirty or more years old. They don’t go out of date as such. Mostly it’s prices and opening times being updated and some new roads appearing on the suggested touring route maps.

 

[Wapping]

The website’s A to B or even A to B to E, via the letters in between is useful, as it will often throw up different ways of going.

I often use it to quickly answer the “Me and my three mates… “ questions. I then ask the same question of say, Kurviger or Google, drop the answers into MyRoute, twiddle them around a bit to fine tune and the job is done.

The internet has made it so easy, it has even made maps and books redundant.