Through the French Canals
Through the French Canals

Author: David Jefferson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 147298174X

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Through the French Canals has probably tempted more people to explore the beautiful waterways of France than any other book. First published in 1970, it's been the key authoritative title on cruising the French canals ever since. The revised new edition is the essential comprehensive planning guide for anyone wanting to cruise through the French waterways or take their boat from the English Channel through to the Mediterranean via the inland route. It includes: over 50 routes fully described and illustrated, with positions of locks, towns and villages through routes from the English Channel and Atlantic to the Mediterranean, plus distances, and assessment of suitable boats for the canals. It also provides dimensions of locks and operating times, details of bridge heights, canal depths, fuelling points, waterway signals, a guide to the cost of living, shopping and stores, sources of weather information, haltes for overnight stops, and ports de plaisance. As well as new photography, the new edition is updated throughout with new information on local facilities, new haltes and ports de plaisance, new VNF License fees, revisions to cruise hire companies, updated references to holding tanks, the availability of diesel and costs of cruising and much more.

Cruising French Waterways
Cruising French Waterways

Author: Hugh McKnight

Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781574092103

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Winner of the Thomas Cook Guide Book Award, this book is one of the leading descriptive guides to the astonishingly varied network of rivers and canals that penetrate almost every region of France. It is full of fascinating information on the historical sites, chateaux and scenic attractions of the many villages and towns that await discovery.

Cruising the Inland Waterways of France and Belgium
Cruising the Inland Waterways of France and Belgium

Author: Gordon Knight

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-11

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0244531978

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Cruising Association guide to the inland waterways of France, Belgium and Luxembourg (with 25 per cent discount offer on first year's CA membership). Includes updates to 31 October 2019. Described as their 'Bible' by regular users and yacht skippers planning routes to and from the Mediterranean, it contains a wealth of information on cruising routes, cruising preparations, supplies, equipment, licences and documents, useful addresses, books and websites as well as listing around 250 mooring places throughout France and Belgium with comments upon facilities, depths, prices, closest shops and restaurants and nearby attractions. The new edition also includes details of locations where fuel may be obtained either alongside or within easy jerry can distance.

Cruising the Canals and Rivers of France
Cruising the Canals and Rivers of France

Author: Tom Sommers

Publisher: Eurocanals Publishing

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780983284178

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A guide to all canals and navigable rivers in France. Descriptions, maps and data tables with waterway dimensions for 90 waterways throughout France; 17 regional maps and 59 detailed maps of individual waterways. The detailed maps show locations of towns, locks, marinas, mooring places and rental-boat bases. Suggestions for through-routes and loop-cruises. Maps showing the location of vineyards along the waterways. This fifth edition(2018) has been updated to show the latest locations of ports de plaisance, haltes and rental boat bases. (These items change on occasion even though the basic canal and river routes do not.)

Berlitz: River Cruising in Europe
Berlitz: River Cruising in Europe

Author: Berlitz

Publisher: Berlitz Travel

Published: 2016-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780048840

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"This book will tell you everything you need to known when choosing a cruise on one of Europe's major waterways. Douglas Ward, renowned expert on all things cruise, tells you what to expect, the pleasures and the pitfalls of river cruising, and which river cruise companies offer the best facilities, food and accommodation."--Page 4 of cover.

Citadel
Citadel

Author: Kate Mosse

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 1409112098

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An epic wartime novel from the No.1 bestselling author of LABYRINTH and THE CITY OF TEARS 1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other. But in a world where the enemy now lies in every shadow - where neighbour informs on neighbour; where friends disappear without warning and often without trace - love can demand the highest price of all...

On a Barge in France
On a Barge in France

Author: Harvey Schwartz

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-19

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780692624746

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Buy a 90-year-old Dutch canal barge and cruise the canals and rivers of France. Eat snails. Drink Burgundy. Sounds like a retirement dream. Sometimes. In On a Barge in France Harvey Schwartz tells of the four years he and his wife, Sandra Hamilton, spent on Hoop Doet Leven on the French waterways. Each chapter presents a vignette of French country life and life in the unique linear village of international bargees traveling extremely slowly through the most beautiful, historic and mind boggling areas of France.