French Waterways – navigation update
Plan the coming boating season on your choice of 9000 km of canals and rivers with our practical navigation editor David Edwards-May.
Plan the coming boating season on your choice of 9000 km of canals and rivers with our practical navigation editor David Edwards-May.
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Le Lot (le plus long affluent de France) avait été déclassé en 1926, des écluses avaient été abandonnées et des barrages hydroélectriques construits lorsque Christian Bernad a commencé à faire campagne en 1971 pour sa restauration et sa réouverture. Notre estimé collègue et ami David Edwards-May a mené l’une des…
Locaboat takes us on a tour to visit Brittany, where half-timbered houses, medieval castles, buttery cakes and Breton biscuits are as adored as the beaches.
We cruised up the Dordogne to Libourne from where we took a coach to the vineyards of Pomerol, Petrus and St Emilion. Read on to find out more.
Having cruised from Pauillac to moor in Blaye we took the coach along the corniche to visit Bourg. Come see the sweet treats and history that we met there.
On the Gironde estuary, Pauillac is a good one and a half hours’ cruise downstream from Bordeaux and look at the Medoc heaven we found ourselves in…
Our first afternoon and evening aboard MS Cyrano de Bergerac with CroisiEurope. Find out how our Bordeaux river cruise began.
Keen to explore the waterways of France from another perspective, David Edwards-May jumped on a bike. Find out about cycling French waterways.
Sailing across the English Channel to cruise the inland waterways of France was quite a challenge. Find out how we got on from Poole to Paris.