Category: Barging

St Valery and Le Crotoy Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme So, mid-morning, we walked into town to catch the steam train that makes the trip around the bay to Le Crotoy. The Somme Bay Railway is one of the premier tourist attractions…

Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and Le Crotoy St Valery For the four nights that we stayed in Saint Valery, Catharina Elisabeth remained rafted up to the cruiser, as no other spaces along the pontoon ever opened up and we had confirmed the first day that it would be…

Amiens – Picquigny – Abbeville – Saint Valery-sur-Somme Picquigny Our aim with Rebecca and Michel on board was to take Catharina Elisabeth to Saint Valery-sur-Somme, the main town where the river meets the North Sea. In Amiens, we had moored near a barge familiar to…