Category: Barging

Le Guétin – Nevers – Fleury-sur-Loire – Decize Plans and Schedules While plans are something of an anathema to most of us cruising, subject to the variables of weather, infrastructure, and personal circumstances, we do have to have short-term aims and some idea of how…

Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre – La Chapelle-Montlinard – Marseilles-lès-Aubigny – Les Guètins Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre When we arrived, we thought we should stay for a couple of nights at the very least as a cycle up the hill to Sancerre would be a necessary part of this experience. Sancerre, a…

Briare – Châtillon-sur-Loire – Beaulieu-sur-Loire – Belleville-sur-Loire – Les Fouchards – Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre Briare Although we had been officially on the Canal Latéral à la Loire since mooring in Briare, we were now going to properly start our cruise down its 196 km length. The storm…