aixcentric

Having just recommended a visit to the tourist office to pick up the guide on gardens, here are another two potentially useful books.

I haven’t ever seen a Guide to the Bouches-du-Rhone specifically for handicapped people before.  This new one seems to be a good starting point.

It  is divided into sections on hotels, restaurants, museums, nature reserves plus the various tourist  offices in our region and what they offer.

Each entry has information to help people using wheelchairs, or those needing a hearing loop, info in Braille or special tours.  Lots of good stuff though the restaurant section is disappointingly small.  There must be some restos in Aix which are accessible to those in wheelchairs.

The best thing to do is to pick up the new Sésame, a free 224-page restaurant guide.  It’s a paid-for publication, ie not critical, but has lots of ideas for eateries, supported by colour pix which give you a feel for the place.  Plus some of them have symbols to indicate that they are wheel-chair-friendly (seating and loos), so that supplements the official guide above.

Sésame has a section of Provencal recipes, ‘Recettes du Sud’, and there is a listing of events throughout the year. A useful book for locals.

Both were in the Aix Tourist Office today – May 31st.