In 1962, Ulm was the fifth stop on a seventeen-day canoe trip that I took with some German friends down the Danube River to Vienna. We camped at an official campsite on the riverbank in Ulm, as I recall, and spent part of one day exploring the city. Here in Read More …
Besides going by train or bicycle, another great way to travel up or down the Rhine from Bacharach is to take one of the regularly scheduled ships run by the Köln-Düsseldorfer (K-D) line. In the summer months they run five ships a day in each direction. Ships going downstream (north) Read More …
The Maas, as it is called in Dutch and German (Meuse in French and English), is actually not a very busy river. I seem to have taken pictures of it mainly when something was going on, such as a barge passing through, but there were long periods when the river Read More …
Since I had arrived too late in the evening to take a canal boat tour in Brugge a couple days before, I was determined to take one in Ghent. So I went over to the dock at the Vleeshuisbrug Groentenmarkt and took the next boat that was leaving. This happened to Read More …
To do a one-hour circle cruise around Besançon on the Doubs River, you have your choice of two boats, which are called (of course) the Victor Hugo and the Vauban. I took the Vauban, which is the smaller of the two. First I watched it from the shore as it Read More …
A pleasant thing to do in Toulouse is to take a cruise on the Garonne River — even though there is hardly anything to see from the boat. The boats leave from Quai de la Daurade, and there is a ticket booth by the dock on Place de la Daurade. Read More …
As in Amsterdam, an interesting rainy-day activity in Strasbourg is to take a boat trip around the city. I call it a rainy-day activity because when the weather is nice you will obviously prefer to be out cycling rather than just sitting in a boat. The boats leave from the Read More …
One day I was crossing the Pont Neuf when the sun came out, which was a fairly rare occurrence that week, so I decided that would be a good time to take a boat trip on the Seine. Unfortunately the sun didn’t stay out, but no matter. I still enjoyed Read More …
As in Strasbourg, an interesting rainy day activity in Amsterdam is to take a boat trip around the city. I call it a rainy day activity because when the weather is nice you will obviously prefer to be out cycling rather than just sitting in a boat. There are several Read More …
A company called Canauxrama runs cruises up and down the Canal Saint-Martin. Currently (as of 2017) they offer morning and afternoon cruises in both directions, leaving either from the Bassin de la Villette (13, Quai de la Loire) or from Port de l’Arsenal (near Place de la Bastille). In addition, Read More …