The full name: Skater 's travel Guide: how to visit France without missing its best spots.

The spots, shops, associations, squats ...
The local's advices for riding their spots
All useful addresses
The best advices for building a skatepark
The lexicon of the rider
The Diary of a road trip between mates
Skateboard pics on the spots of the book


The book's format / page's quality :
It is a book of 23 cm high ,16cm wide and 1cm thick.
It contains 170 pages.
The cover is made of very thick paper with glossy effect for the lower part and the back of the cover.
For the front, Mathieu Labbé is doing a hardflip on smooth paperboard .
This variation of material is quite funny  ... it is quite pleasant to touch

The content:
The Skater 's travel guide seems to be the  must have guide for the rider road tripping in France.
Indeed it looks like the Finest - le spot montreur - with lists and photos of spots, but it also focuses on other aspects of skateboarding  with for each city, a listing à la " Guide du Routard ":

• Where to sleep?
• where to eat?
• where to go for drinking a glass or going out?
• where to help yourself with (photo/video/music/24/7/emergencies/tourism office ...)

With also something that wasn't appearing in Finest,

• GoogleMap of the places with red dots for the interesting places referred in the article.
• Presentation of the local hero, the local photographer, local film maker or local skateshop
• or even the sectorization of the spots: classical / not to miss spots (the legend ones)
  
• lists of  the local pros -
  
• annual skateboard events in the area
  
• skateparks in the area with adress, access, opening hours ....

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