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Casual Barge Biking Cruises in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France The cruises listed below are for those passengers that are looking for a very laid back experience at an affordable price. These cruises are multi language. Your cabin consists of your own private toilet and shower, though you take care of cleaning your room. You are given clean linens during the cruise and you make your own bed. Lunch is a packed bag each day. There is no formal meals such as a Captain's Farewell dinner. No alcoholic beverages included in the rates. These are a great value and great fun if the above features appeal to you. The 3 vessels - 24 passenger Iris (built in 2004), the 20 passenger Fleur (converted in 2002) and the 20 passenger Allure (most casual, converted in 1998) are Dutch barges. Allure, Fleur and Iris are three practical and comfortable barges with a friendly appearance. Bruge
to Paris Tour
- Following the Pilgrims 15
days, breakfast, packed lunch,
dinner,
bed linen, bike rental, tour guide.
Itinerary:
Bruges Ghent Oudenaarde
Cambrai St. Quentin Compiegne Coflans Paris. Highlights:
round trip of the canals of Bruges Belfort in Ghent tunnel of Riqueval
basilica ofSt. Quentin Royal palace in Compiegne Paris.
Starting
point is Bruges, with its picturesque town center probably the most beautiful
of the historical Flemish cities. You will get the opportunity to visit one of
its many museums and to have a look at the famous hand-made Bruges lace. We
cruise the river Schelde to the south and we pass Ghent, in order to breathe
in the atmosphere of the old days in the town center with its impressive
Belfort and the St. Baafs-cathedral, where you can admire the famous triptych
of painter Jan van Eyck. Next, we visit Oudenaarde and Tournai, which was an
important cathedral city for the pilgrims during the Middle Ages. Once
in France, we still follow the, at that point unnavigable, river Schelde while
cruising the wonderful old canal of St. Quentin, through the tunnel of
Riqueval to the historical city of St. Quentin, where the gothic basilica and
the town hall are worth a visit. After that we follow the valley of the Somme in a southern direction via Noyon to Compiegne. From the Middle Ages on, this part of France used to be the centre of the French kingdom. A visit to the palace of the French kings is on the program. We follow the valley of the river Oise with its varied scenery and arrive at Conflans. Here the Oise flows into the Seine and we follow this river upstream into the direction of Paris. We pass the Eiffel tower and the Louvre. Our final destination is Port dArsenal in the heart of Paris, not far from the Notre Dame. Contact us for a full details itinerary.
Lowlands
You
can book this trip as a bike & barge trip or as a cruise. If you
book a bike & barge trip, you can make a bike tour of 20 40 km
per day, accompanied by an experienced guide. If you book a cruise, you
sail with the barge and you use public transport, accompanied by another
experienced guide. Itinerary:
Amsterdam
Haarlem Leiden Delft Rotterdam - Gouda - Amsterdam Highlights:
round trip of the canals of
You will be surprised by the beautiful, varied scenery
and the wonderful bikeways of Contact us for a detailed itinerary.
Flemish
Cities Tour Itinerary:
Vianen
Dordrecht Antwerp Ghent Bruges Flemish
hospitality and history During this tour, the historical Flemish cities are central: Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges. But before we arrive there, you will get to know a very beautiful part of the Netherlands. You bike along the winding river Vecht with its impressive castles on its banks, you visit a real Dutch cheese farm, where cheese is still produced according to traditional methods and you visit the Dutch windmills in Kinderdijk. From the fortified town Willemstad, which is situated on the impressive wide Zeeland streams, we head for Belgium. There we spent the night in Antwerp, the city of Rubens, and of course we will visit the Rubens house. You bike from Antwerp to Ghent along the beautiful tidal river Nederschelde, in order to breathe in the atmosphere of the days of old in the town center, with its impressive Belfort and the St. Baafs-cathedral, where you can admire the famous triptych of painter Jan van Eyck. Final destination is Bruges, with its picturesque town center probably the most beautiful of the historical Flemish cities. Contact
us for a full detailed itinerary.
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